Sentence examples for jammed from inspiring English sources

The word "jammed" is an acceptable term in written English
It can be used in various contexts, but is most often used to refer to something that is stuck or packed tightly. For example: The door was jammed shut and would not open.

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jammed

verb

Past of jam

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The number of people who venture to Llangennith is negligible compared to most of Devon or Cornwall, but the road is like a funnel and it doesn't take much to get jammed.

Subarna Khadka was bathing when the first tremor happened, but couldn't escape because the earthquake jammed his bathroom door.

It was a rare scene from yesteryear; the roads of Footscray were jammed with cars illegally parked while nearby Barkly and Nicholson Streets were dominated by people eating and drinking in the club's red, white and blue after the game.

More than once his mother, Gitte Lambrechts, who was a physiotherapist, had to drive him to the hospital: broken ankle bone, jammed finger, handlebar in the groin, a gaping wound in his head after colliding with a chair, and so on.

He had armed backup in the form of Estonian security officers nearby but they were unable to react in time because of the use of flash grenades and because their communications were jammed.

Jim Ewing tweeted a picture of the station concourse jammed with travellers, adding that he had been stuck in a corridor for more than an hour.

That made their late rally all the more impressive but it would have been an injustice for the Dogs to steal the game from the Panthers who gave their home fans, jammed into their re-badged stadium, reason to believe that 2015 can be every bit as satisfying as 2014.

I found an old, grey filing cabinet jammed with work.

It is conceived as a series of big boxes jammed together at rakish angles, dipping and diving from 14 to 22 metres in height as it stretches along the highway.

As great an actor as Grieg is, there's no escaping the fact that sitting through an episode of Episodes is like sitting through an eternity of having bamboo shards jammed into your urethra.

The abuse Perez alleges is reminiscent of an earlier era of police torture in Chicago, when Darrell Cannon had a shotgun barrel jammed into his mouth.

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