Sentence examples for jammed the roads from inspiring English sources

By Friday night, the number of Palestinians to have made their way into Egypt was estimated at 700,000 and yesterday cars and trucks jammed the roads out of Gaza City.

Customers jammed the roads around Mr. Porter's shop on Saturday mornings in the middle of the last century, Mr. Bland said, and the police often were called to direct traffic and unclog roads.

Last week these hit 90p per litre, the highest nominal level ever (but about the same, in real terms, as in 2000, when fuel price protesters jammed the roads).Happily for irritated drivers, there are alternatives to pricey petrol and diesel.

Fleeing cars have jammed the roads, and flames dance on both sides of the asphalt.

The pub is pointed out on London sightseeing tour buses and has hosted many private parties, including Ritchie's 40th birthday in September last year, which jammed the road with traffic.

Up to five if leaf peepers or skiers are jamming the roads.

Thousands of additional security forces are moving into Baghdad, and the government has erected impromptu checkpoints across the city, jamming the roads with miles of angry, immobilized motorists.

Tens of thousands of terrified civilians are jamming the roads of Congo's North Kivu province in a frantic southbound exodus in the hope of self-preservation (see map).

The tech companies' position on the buses is this: We're not driving our own cars, jamming the roads and polluting the air.

Both the Bank of America and the newly merged Wachovia/First Union evacuated their downtown skyscrapers, sending thousands of workers into the streets and jamming the roads that lead out of the city center.

In particular, he wrote, the plan assumed that parents would allow their children to be evacuated separately on buses, and failed to consider that residents outside the 10-mile evacuation zone would jam the roads.