(v. t.) To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.
(v. t.) To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as, this volume of Shakespeare includes his sonnets; he was included in the invitation to the family; to and including page twenty-five.
(v. t.) To conclude; to end; to terminate.
Example Sentences:
(1) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
(2) Assessment of the likelihood of replication in humans has included in vitro exposure of human cells to the potential pesticidal agent.
(3) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(4) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(5) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(6) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(7) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
(8) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(9) An application is made to the validity of cancer risk items included in a cancer registry.
(10) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(11) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
(12) It includes preincubation of diluted plasma with ellagic acid and phospholipids and a starting reagent that contains calcium and a chromogenic peptide substrate for thrombin, Tos-Gly-Pro-Arg-pNA.
(13) Diseases of the gastric musculature, including the inflammatory and endocrine myopathies, muscular dystrophies, and infiltrative disorders, can result in significant gastroparesis.
(14) The serum concentration of hyaluronan (HYA) was determined in 59 patients with various myeloproliferative disorders, including 33 patients with idiopathic myelofibrosis.
(15) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(16) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
(17) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
(18) Three overlapping clones, spanning a total of 19 kb of the human SC gene, including 3 kb of the 5' flanking region, were characterized.
(19) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
(20) The causative organisms included viruses, fungi, and bacteria of both high and low pathogenicity.
Shoehorn
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Shoeing-horn
Example Sentences:
(1) Events had to be shoehorned into a wider narrative.
(2) Just as Elba is clear that his ambition is not to be shoehorned into "black" roles in Hollywood, he is equally ambivalent about these niche black-film industries.
(3) We would love to continue to work with Gordon but it would be on a project-by-project basis.” Ramsay, said to be lining up a project for ITV , was among the C4 talent shoehorned into 2012’s reality flop Hotel GB, along with Gok Wan, Phil Spencer, Mary Portas (unlike Ramsay she remains on an exclusive C4 deal) and others.
(4) If winning Wimbledon isn't enough to shoehorn you in as SPOTY elect, I don't know what is.
(5) The recent friendly against Portugal showed that shoehorning him into the starting lineup means that our three most in form attacking players - Kane, Alli and Vardy have to be played out of position.Picking Jack Wilshere is also a huge gamble, with the Arsenal man having played so little football this year.
(6) Care cannot always be easily shoehorned into the gaps in a busy life of consuming and working.
(7) Hawley started the bill but with Smoot behind him it metastasized as lobby groups shoehorned their products into the bill, eventually proposing higher tariffs on more than 20,000 imported goods.
(8) Meanwhile, because we no longer understand anything unless it is filtered through the prism of the Premier League, various newspapers have already dubbed May's poll " the Wags election " – a classification that underscores the almost infinite creativity of the British media, which have apparently now given up so emphatically that they are content to shoehorn absolutely all human experience into one of four or five pop-cultural tropes, the easier for the voters it apparently regards as imbeciles to understand.
(9) While driving, Dresden rebuffs Seagal's ideas with the usual ploy of shoehorning references to Orange and its phone services into the script.
(10) The shoehorning occurs here in a context where the legal professions' understanding of social media platforms and how they function is questioned by users of those platforms.
(11) The irony was that Moyes had shoehorned in another central midfielder, Tom Cleverley, at the expense of a right-winger to try to cope with City's superiority in this area.
(12) But the government is uncomfortably shoehorning more and more of the workforce into self-employment, part-time work and zero-hours contracts.
(13) It was 1972, the height of Mao’s cultural revolution, and an entire nation was being shoehorned into creating a new communist China .
(14) Mélenchon, a philosophy graduate and former teacher, will be hoping the level of support for his programme will enable him to shoehorn some policies into Hollande's manifesto.
(15) You can even record yourself using your smartphone camera and shoehorn your face into the classic “help me Obi Wan, you’re my only hope” – just forget that’s meant to be R2-D2.
(16) England had looked devoid of spark or spontaneity until the point, late on, when Chris Smalling spared them even fiercer analysis with the game’s decisive moment, and to play that drearily was quite some feat bearing in mind the number of attacking players Hodgson had shoehorned into his starting lineup.
(17) Less can be said for the bizarre shoehorning-in of a romance between Doc Scurlock and Murphy's fictional Chinese sex slave, Yen Sun.
(18) It is not appropriate to shoehorn each patient into a preset method of treatment.
(19) | Helen Dennis, Ruth Fuller, Kate Munro Read more The US has recognised that the SDGs provide a framework around which to shape national policy and add renewed emphasis to the challenges they face, the UK seems content to shoehorn the SDGs into existing priorities, disregarding the parts that do not fit – whether they are relevant or not.
(20) That possibly explains why Manchester City could not resist shoehorning a detour to Carlo Ancelotti’s Bayern Munich in en route to China, allowing Guardiola to make his bow against the club he has just left.