Sentence examples for jammed highways from inspiring English sources
"jammed highways" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to describe a situation where there is heavy traffic and congestion on a highway. Example: "The rush hour commute was particularly difficult today due to the jammed highways caused by a car accident on the main route."
Even the next day, as our packed station wagon followed the jammed highways home, I kept envisioning that U.F.O.
Millions of people were ordered to evacuate, and hundreds of thousands scrambled into crowded shelters and onto jammed highways.
Getting to a train station is far easier than driving on jammed highways to arrive at a crowded airport.
In fact, most of the streets inside the city looked considerably better than the images of jammed highways seen on television screens across the nation.
Thousands of commuters are riding school buses to work or squeezing their cars onto jammed highways because of a labor dispute that has stopped commuter rail service north of Boston.
George Warrington, Amtrak's president, said ridership was up because service was better and because "the marketplace is feeling increasingly frustrated with the alternatives," namely jammed highways and delayed airplanes.
Eventually, it is hoped, the computer will be alerted by radio signal with up-to-the-minute traffic conditions, enabling the system to suggest local streets that might serve the driver better than the jammed highway.
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And then they all made a slow journey past the smoke and fire engines and down a jammed Pacific Coast Highway, the poor cellphone service and closed gas stations making the exodus even more perilous.
"This year's Chuseok is 15 September and tens of millions of Koreans will be jammed on the highways to go back to their hometowns.
"We had hoped this would happen, that people would answer the call and stay out of their cars," said Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, after a 30-minute tour in which he pointed at normally jammed streets and highways and circled twice over the bridge whose demolition this weekend was the cause of the shutdown.
