shoehorn in English

noun
1
a curved instrument used to ease one's heel into a shoe.
Use a long-handled shoehorn if you have trouble putting on shoes.
verb
1
force into an inadequate space.
people were shoehorned into cramped corners

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1. Adventurer, if you really wanted to try to shoehorn 'em in

2. After the war, the engineers had to invent some mammoth excavation devices to shoehorn them out.

3. Somehow though, the band manages to shoehorn a fine lot of angst into such small packages.

4. Why try to shoehorn all the good stuff listed above into the little box of specifically social responsibility?

5. 15 After the war, the engineers had to invent some mammoth excavation devices to shoehorn them out.

6. 19 After the war, the engineers had to invent some mammoth excavation devices to shoehorn them out.

7. Here is the main difference between "Blended" and his other output over the past several years, slapped-together efforts like "Just Go With It," "Jack and Jill," "That’s My Boy" and the "Grown Ups" movies: There’s a vague sense of tonal consistency.Whereas so many of his films are just unabashed raunchfests until the very end, when they shoehorn in some false, gooey sentimentality, …