shoehorned

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  • Here I'd always been the improviser, treading water, swimming reflexly for whatever shore showed itself, while Muriel weighed out options like an assayer, made lists and kept files, saw that laundry got done before the last sock fell, shoehorned order into our lives. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 05 - May 1999
  • I've always thought that was one of the funniest things in Network, how that description was shoehorned into every new show pitch thrown at Faye Dunaway. —  Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
  • Forget about James Bond, people -- it's been almost eight long years since Pierce Brosnan was last shoehorned into the tailored suit of that other dapper gent: Thomas Crown. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • (Spunky McPunk i've seen you griddling eggs like theres no tomoro, Thu 11 Sep, 10: 29, Reply) morning. god they were all so happy about the collision also. blimey, a compo where i can pearoast without it even being shoehorned. i'll just drop this here: and run away and get back to work —  B3ta
  • Which shoehorned-in comment beautifully leads me into my next politico fail. —  ThePickards
 

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