[
US
/ˈʃuˌhɔɹn/
]
[ UK /ʃˈuːhɔːn/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈuːhɔːn/ ]
VERB
- fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited
NOUN
- a device used for easing the foot into a shoe
How To Use shoehorn In A Sentence
- It seemed to have been shoehorned into the schedules as an afterthought.
- I find it much better than shoehorning e-mail through a WAP browser.
- Their cars are shoehorned into tiny spaces.
- They shoehorned some of them in but the British travellers clearly felt that it smacked of tokenism.
- Whoever wins is going to need a really big shoehorn.
- In a mouth-watering programme full of enticing - nay, galvanic - events, there are 550 authors shoehorned into two packed weeks.
- 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.
- You can't "shoehorn" a script into a compiled executable. AutoHotkey Community
- The beast was then howling, for it had managed to spit out the shoehorn.
- 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.
