Sentence examples for jammed shut from inspiring English sources

The windows are grimy and jammed shut.

The only window in the bedroom is jammed shut.

He said that when he tried to flee, he found his door had been jammed shut.

I opened the cabinets and drawers, which were empty, except for one that was jammed shut.

One firehouse door was jammed shut, preventing firefighters from responding to two calls.

They opened this door as well, and encountered a third door, made of iron, which was jammed shut.

Rafael de Soto's unusual compositions tend to stand out, like an image from Detective Tales magazine in which a snarling man with crossed arms fires a gun with one hand while struggling to jam shut the door of a small bus-station locker with the other.

None of her 52 shells penetrated their target's armor, but they did jam shut several of the armored shutters that protected the aft gun ports, including the stern gun port at 09 40.

Questions were raised in Parliament about the safety of tunnelling so close to the vaults of many City banks and the risk that subsidence might cause vault doors to jam shut.

Tataki knew that the only way out of the building was through an air lock — a set of parallel doors designed to prevent contamination — but the quake had jammed it shut.

Rubble fell over the entrance to the cellar, jamming it shut, while flames engulfed the remains of the house.