Dictionary entry
Shoehorn
Pronunciation: /ˈʃuːhɔːn/
Pronunciation
/ˈʃuːhɔːn/
Myanmar Meaning
ရှုးဖိနပ်စီးရာ၌ ခြေဖနောင့်လျှိုသွင်းရန် သုံးသည့် ဖိနပ်ကော်။
Definition
shoehorn /'ʃu:hↄ:n/ n ႐ႉးဖိနပ္စီးရာ၌ ေျခဖေနာင့္လွ်ဳိသြင္းရန္ သံုးသည့္ ဖိနပ္ေကာ္။
Examples
- ‘We also supply intimate items - shoehorns
- toothbrushes and toothpaste - and our laundry bags are linen
- not plastic.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Whoever wins is going to need a really big shoehorn.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Kisembo is wearing green rubber boots and has brought
- as a symbol of his power
- a shoehorn adorned with a lion's head.’
- ‘Finding a comfortable spot for a nap in a passenger terminal is like trying to find a Bedouin shoehorn salesman.’
- ‘The average airline ticket in the U.S. should come with a shoehorn to help wedge you into the seat.’
- ‘If you look at the bag with a transmitted x-ray
- you can make out various things - a radio
- shaving cream.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘It's illogical
- he says: feet splay out towards the ends
- yet women's fashion demands that toes be shoehorned into a point.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘These snippets of genetic material shoehorn themselves into a variety of spots in a host's DNA.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’