Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to shoehorn
Participle: shoehorned
Gerund: shoehorning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | shoehorn |
| you | shoehorn |
| he;she;it | shoehorns |
| we | shoehorn |
| you | shoehorn |
| they | shoehorn |
Perfect
| I | have shoehorned |
| you | have shoehorned |
| he;she;it | has shoehorned |
| we | have shoehorned |
| you | have shoehorned |
| they | have shoehorned |
Past
| I | shoehorned |
| you | shoehorned |
| he;she;it | shoehorned |
| we | shoehorned |
| you | shoehorned |
| they | shoehorned |
Pluperfect
| I | had shoehorned |
| you | had shoehorned |
| he;she;it | had shoehorned |
| we | had shoehorned |
| you | had shoehorned |
| they | had shoehorned |
Future
| I | will shoehorn |
| you | will shoehorn |
| he;she;it | will shoehorn |
| we | will shoehorn |
| you | will shoehorn |
| they | will shoehorn |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shoehorned |
| you | will have shoehorned |
| he;she;it | will have shoehorned |
| we | will have shoehorned |
| you | will have shoehorned |
| they | will have shoehorned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | shoehorn |
| you | shoehorn |
| he;she;it | shoehorn |
| we | shoehorn |
| you | shoehorn |
| they | shoehorn |
Perfect
| I | have shoehorned |
| you | have shoehorned |
| he;she;it | have shoehorned |
| we | have shoehorned |
| you | have shoehorned |
| they | have shoehorned |
Imperfect
| I | shoehorned |
| you | shoehorned |
| he;she;it | shoehorned |
| we | shoehorned |
| you | shoehorned |
| they | shoehorned |
Pluperfect
| I | had shoehorned |
| you | had shoehorned |
| he;she;it | had shoehorned |
| we | had shoehorned |
| you | had shoehorned |
| they | had shoehorned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would shoehorn |
| you | would shoehorn |
| he;she;it | would shoehorn |
| we | would shoehorn |
| you | would shoehorn |
| they | would shoehorn |
Perfect
| I | would have shoehorned |
| you | would have shoehorned |
| he;she;it | would have shoehorned |
| we | would have shoehorned |
| you | would have shoehorned |
| they | would have shoehorned |
Imperative
| you | shoehorn |
| we | Let's shoehorn |
| you | shoehorn |
Verbs conjugated like 'shoehorn'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'shoehorn'
shoe-horn,
behorn,
dehorn,
hoedown,
chokebore,
cohort,
dehort,
dishorn,
homeport,
honnor,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From shoe + horn.
Sample Sentences
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I shoehorned his dozen burgeoning bags into the backseat of my tiny car, and off we went.
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His staff want to shoehorn an extra stop into his already packed campaigning schedule.
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2012, The Economist, Oct 13th 2012 issue, Italian politics: Who will be Italy’s next prime minister?
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A member of Mr Monti’s government admitted that, barring a hung parliament, it was impossible for the moment to see how Mr Monti could be shoehorned into politics after next spring.
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People claiming to be psychic may shoehorn an event into fulfillment of some vague past prediction.
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After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, fundamentalist Christian evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson shoehorned the events to their agenda. They claimed that "liberal civil liberties groups, feminists, homosexuals and abortion rights supporters bear partial responsibility...because their actions have turned [my] god's anger against America." [2015 April 5, Robert Todd Carroll, “Shoehorning”, in The Skeptic's Dictionary:]