shoehorned
past simple and past participle ofshoehorn
shoehorn
verb[Toften passive]
informaluk/ˈʃuː.hɔːn/us/ˈʃuː.hɔːrn/tofitsomethingtightlyin aparticularplace, often between two other things:
Thistinyrestaurantis shoehornedbetweentwomajorbanks.
Inserting and forcing things into other things
- bed
- dig
- dig(something)intosomeone/something
- embed
- embedded
- gouging
- inset
- interlace
- interpolation
- interpose
- interposition
- intersperse
- jam
- lodge
- rethread
- shoehorn
- stick
- stuck
- thread
- wedge
Examplesofshoehorned
shoehorned
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
But not all history can beshoehornedinto a colonial/pre-colonial mould.
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This information has often been cobbled together from previous reports with further second-hand information then beingshoehornedto fit an already decided agenda or outcome.
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However, seemingly in order more accurately to represent the many facets of the cloning debate, other issues were "shoehorned" into the story.
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This does not mean that perception and conceptualization occur by some crude best fit principle whereby new experience isshoehornedinto existing, more or less ill-fitting categories.
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Why should its three natural time zones beshoehornedinto one, other than for bureaucratic tidiness?
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I am at the stage where my feet are beingshoehornedrather unwillingly into the shoes of trusteeship.
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For too long, children's health has had a raw deal in this country, particularly if the child cannot beshoehornedinto the infant or young adult categories.
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The inclusion of police as best value authorities, inappropriatelyshoehornedinto a structure that is essentially designed for local government, will reinforce many of the problems.
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But some of us are not, and more and more are refusing to beshoehornedinto monogamy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The premise isshoehornedinto working rather than organically feeling like the right thing to do.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He also praised the lyric as a tried-but-true drinkin and cryin lyric for something that manages to sound modern without feeling uncomfortablyshoehornedin there.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This produced a number of other visual artifacts; new streets and neighborhoods had to beshoehornedinto layouts designed around previously existing features.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But sadly, he offers nothing new and nothing remarkable, and the plot is thin with complications literallyshoehornedin.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But the ferns in the loose sense are much too diverse a group to beshoehornedinto one taxon at such a low rank.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Shoehornedprophecies usually take vague prophecies and twist them to mean the event in question even if the evidence for the connection is shaky.
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- visual
- visual aid
- visual-aid
- visual appeal
- visual appearance
- visual art
- visual artist
- visual-arts
- visual clarity
- visual clue
- visual communication
- visual complexity
- visual component
- visual cortex
- visual culture
- visual depiction
- visual display
- visual display terminal
- visual-display-terminal
- visual display unit
- visual-display-unit
- visual disturbance
- visual effect
- visual-effect
- visual element