Squeeze (into)

Usage examples of shoehorn.

They took plenty of notes and pictures, but gave us very little in return other than diagrams of electric eggbeaters, power operated shoehorns, pencil sharpeners and such.

The molecule may be enzymatically active in one shape and inert in the other, like a shoehorn that sometimes warps into worthlessness.

It took some real finagling to shoehorn that into a regular issue, but it would have been no particular problem in a double.

For several decades during the Stalinist period and its aftermath, research on brain and behaviour in the Soviet Union became shoehorned into Pavlovian orthodoxy, despite the presence of new generations of researchers who, while prepared to give Pavlov credit for his undoubted achievements, sought to break loose theoretically.

But instead of exposing media bias, the facts had to be shoehorned into a different theory.

It was a little hole-in-the-wall of black-painted brick, shoehorned between brownstones that seemed to sag under the weight of innumerable layers of graffiti.

His generation hadremained undefined - shoehorned between the Beat Generation of Woodstockand the Generation X of MTV, too young when thirty-somethinghad ruled the airwaves, too old now for Beverley Hills, 90210, or Melrose Place.

Thus Becca - who, when I worked in publishing, gave me a worsening series of book-shaped clothes-brushes, shoehorns and hair ornaments - this year gave me a clapperboard fridge magnet.

Houses that would grace multiple acreage in Greenwich or Scarsdale or Shaker Heights are shoehorned onto half-acre rectangles.

She buys her clothes in the petite department and then shoehorns herself into them.

From above, the barge looked like a low tub with strange and gigantic shoehorns on its sides.

Reshod with the aid of meter-long shoehorns, they approached their small fleet of automobiles, while the serving women and proprietress smiled and bowed ceremoniously.