Sentence examples for and a gridlock of from inspiring English sources

It is 5 22 p.m., and here at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street the rush hour dance is well under way: commuters are weaving toward the subway, lines have formed at the bus stops, hands are in the air for any available cab and a gridlock of cars and buses is on the streets, belching exhaust and raising tempers.

The floodwaters had created a gridlock of trucks and cars that were stopped at the water's edge.

Her first appearance on the big screen, in "Fourteen Hours," already fits the bill; in fur coat, veil, and pearls, she is helped through a gridlock of cars, in a hurry to get to the lawyers' office, where her divorce will be finalized.

For decades, the intersection of Park Avenue and 96th Street has remained one of the city's most obvious and despairing emblems of disparity, with East Harlem and its challenges spreading out to the north, and a vast gridlock of extraordinary privilege colonizing the acreage below.

This attack on our collective memory combines with and fosters a political gridlock of novel proportions.

For months, the Bloomberg administration has been selling the benefits — including cleaner air and less gridlock — of charging a fee to use the city's busiest streets.

Here in Los Angeles, we have traffic and gridlock of a different kind.

That invasion continues, exemplified by Jennifer Lopez's recent purchase of a $10 million home in Watermill and the gridlock of helicopters at local airports.

Due to the affordability of this project, any single country could unilaterally undertake a geoengineering project, bypassing the bureaucratic hurdles and perpetual gridlock of international agreements.

The least productive, with a gridlock score of 65, was the 105th, in a divided government headed by Bill Clinton.

Others say it reflects a weariness and dissatisfaction among voters with the discord and gridlock of split control.