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Definition of shoehorn in English: shoehornnounˈʃuːhɔːnˈʃuˌhɔrn A curved instrument used for easing one's heel into a shoe. Example sentencesExamples - If you look at the bag with a transmitted x-ray, you can make out various things - a radio, a shoehorn, shaving cream.
- The average airline ticket in the U.S. should come with a shoehorn to help wedge you into the seat.
- My laptop, my picture ID and credit cards, a shoehorn, a small flashlight, and a good book to read - are just a few other must-haves.
- The firm buys cow horn, which is a by-product of the meat industry, and uses it to produce items such as spoons, walking sticks and shoehorns.
- The sparkling clean room has four lockers, each with wooden coat hangers, a lower compartment for shoes, with complimentary shoehorn, and an upper compartment for personal effects.
- Aids include shoehorns with an extension handle, devices that help you pull up hosiery, shoes you close with Velcro rather than with shoelaces, and tools that grip buttons and zippers.
- Use a long-handled shoehorn if you have trouble putting on shoes.
- After much struggling and battling with the shoehorn he finally got the shoes on.
- And when buses finally arrive, they are often packed so full of people that we wish our Metropasses had come equipped with a shoehorn.
- Finding a comfortable spot for a nap in a passenger terminal is like trying to find a Bedouin shoehorn salesman.
- Whoever wins is going to need a really big shoehorn.
- We also supply intimate items - shoehorns, toothbrushes and toothpaste - and our laundry bags are linen, not plastic.
- Kisembo is wearing green rubber boots and has brought, as a symbol of his power, a shoehorn adorned with a lion's head.
verbˈʃuːhɔːnˈʃuˌhɔrn with object and adverbial Force into an inadequate space. people were shoehorned into cramped corners Example sentencesExamples - I find it much better than shoehorning e-mail through a WAP browser.
- The book lacks a discography but just about everything else, relevant or otherwise, is shoehorned into these 738 pages.
- The last thing we want to do is shoehorn into a venue simply to create a presence in the city.
- Curious tourists gathered on Edinburgh's Royal Mile as volunteers, some climbing into the roof of the booth, others sitting on each other, slowly shoehorned themselves into the tiny space.
- A traditional marriage will be most advantageous for the blushing groom, but it's not the oppressive males who are forcing us up that aisle, or shoehorning us into white meringues.
- They shoehorned some of them in but the British travellers clearly felt that it smacked of tokenism.
- Parliamentarians are also accused of disastrously shoehorning the works into inappropriate settings which fail to show them to their best advantage.
- We have a long list of businesses which are shoehorned into premises which aren't suitable for their needs.
- Why shoehorn all the pupils into one site when there is ample space at the former Middle School on Valley Drive?
- These snippets of genetic material shoehorn themselves into a variety of spots in a host's DNA.
- They are allowed a few bolstering bits of flimsy cloth to try to retain an air of modesty despite being shoehorned into bras that are less about pushing up, and more about throwing out.
- It's illogical, he says: feet splay out towards the ends, yet women's fashion demands that toes be shoehorned into a point.
- There are better things - deeper and more resonant themes, and more complex and more enriching ideas - which can't or shouldn't be shoehorned into this inflexible storytelling model.
- So-called psychics frequently shoehorn events to fit vague statements they made in the past.
- Half of the proposed new homes will be shoehorned into the current school site which is a protected recreational site in the centre and at the heart of our village.
- So shoehorning the problem of nuclear proliferation into the framework of terrorism is especially illogical, since the distinguishing feature of nuclear proliferation as an issue is its asymmetry.
- A grand piano is shoehorned into the rectangular room, bay-fronted on to a hill of semi-detached houses on the south Essex coast.
- Certainly there is a great variety of experiences, skills and knowledge for students to gain from work terms that could not be shoehorned into specific courses.
- Having invented this sequence, he spends the rest of the paragraph shoehorning events into the stages.
- But the sport also cannot be shoehorned into an ideal mold of globalization, even as globalization cannot quite set its foot straight in world soccer.
Definition of shoehorn in US English: shoehornnounˈʃuˌhɔrnˈSHo͞oˌhôrn A curved instrument used to ease one's heel into a shoe. Example sentencesExamples - If you look at the bag with a transmitted x-ray, you can make out various things - a radio, a shoehorn, shaving cream.
- Aids include shoehorns with an extension handle, devices that help you pull up hosiery, shoes you close with Velcro rather than with shoelaces, and tools that grip buttons and zippers.
- Finding a comfortable spot for a nap in a passenger terminal is like trying to find a Bedouin shoehorn salesman.
- The firm buys cow horn, which is a by-product of the meat industry, and uses it to produce items such as spoons, walking sticks and shoehorns.
- The sparkling clean room has four lockers, each with wooden coat hangers, a lower compartment for shoes, with complimentary shoehorn, and an upper compartment for personal effects.
- Whoever wins is going to need a really big shoehorn.
- Kisembo is wearing green rubber boots and has brought, as a symbol of his power, a shoehorn adorned with a lion's head.
- The average airline ticket in the U.S. should come with a shoehorn to help wedge you into the seat.
- My laptop, my picture ID and credit cards, a shoehorn, a small flashlight, and a good book to read - are just a few other must-haves.
- We also supply intimate items - shoehorns, toothbrushes and toothpaste - and our laundry bags are linen, not plastic.
- And when buses finally arrive, they are often packed so full of people that we wish our Metropasses had come equipped with a shoehorn.
- After much struggling and battling with the shoehorn he finally got the shoes on.
- Use a long-handled shoehorn if you have trouble putting on shoes.
verbˈʃuˌhɔrnˈSHo͞oˌhôrn with object and adverbial Force into an inadequate space. people were shoehorned into cramped corners Example sentencesExamples - Why shoehorn all the pupils into one site when there is ample space at the former Middle School on Valley Drive?
- So-called psychics frequently shoehorn events to fit vague statements they made in the past.
- Parliamentarians are also accused of disastrously shoehorning the works into inappropriate settings which fail to show them to their best advantage.
- Having invented this sequence, he spends the rest of the paragraph shoehorning events into the stages.
- These snippets of genetic material shoehorn themselves into a variety of spots in a host's DNA.
- There are better things - deeper and more resonant themes, and more complex and more enriching ideas - which can't or shouldn't be shoehorned into this inflexible storytelling model.
- They are allowed a few bolstering bits of flimsy cloth to try to retain an air of modesty despite being shoehorned into bras that are less about pushing up, and more about throwing out.
- The last thing we want to do is shoehorn into a venue simply to create a presence in the city.
- It's illogical, he says: feet splay out towards the ends, yet women's fashion demands that toes be shoehorned into a point.
- So shoehorning the problem of nuclear proliferation into the framework of terrorism is especially illogical, since the distinguishing feature of nuclear proliferation as an issue is its asymmetry.
- Half of the proposed new homes will be shoehorned into the current school site which is a protected recreational site in the centre and at the heart of our village.
- Certainly there is a great variety of experiences, skills and knowledge for students to gain from work terms that could not be shoehorned into specific courses.
- We have a long list of businesses which are shoehorned into premises which aren't suitable for their needs.
- A traditional marriage will be most advantageous for the blushing groom, but it's not the oppressive males who are forcing us up that aisle, or shoehorning us into white meringues.
- Curious tourists gathered on Edinburgh's Royal Mile as volunteers, some climbing into the roof of the booth, others sitting on each other, slowly shoehorned themselves into the tiny space.
- I find it much better than shoehorning e-mail through a WAP browser.
- But the sport also cannot be shoehorned into an ideal mold of globalization, even as globalization cannot quite set its foot straight in world soccer.
- The book lacks a discography but just about everything else, relevant or otherwise, is shoehorned into these 738 pages.
- They shoehorned some of them in but the British travellers clearly felt that it smacked of tokenism.
- A grand piano is shoehorned into the rectangular room, bay-fronted on to a hill of semi-detached houses on the south Essex coast.
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