(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.
Use
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use.
(v. t.) Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book.
(v. t.) Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility.
(v. t.) Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit.
(v. t.) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
(v. t.) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.
(v. t.) The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.
(v. t.) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.
(v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
(v. t.) To make use of; to convert to one's service; to avail one's self of; to employ; to put a purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use time; to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation.
(v. t.) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly.
(v. t.) To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business.
(v. t.) To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger.
(v. i.) To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to."
(v. i.) To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; -- sometimes followed by of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(3) Therefore, these findings may extend the use of platelets as neuronal models.
(4) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(5) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(6) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(7) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(8) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(9) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(10) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(11) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(12) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(13) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(14) At 36 h postsurgery, RBCs were examined by 23Na-NMR by using dysprosium tripolyphosphate as a chemical shift reagent.
(15) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(16) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(17) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
(18) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(19) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(20) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.