Sentence examples for slammed up from inspiring English sources
In written English, the phrase "slammed up" is not an acceptable phrase
"Slammed" is more commonly used in spoken English, typically as an action verb to describe someone forcefully closing a door or window. An example sentence using this term is, "He slammed the door shut after arguing with his wife."
They spun toward one of the fort's foundation trees and slammed up against it.
That's what "The Mindy Project" has just slammed up against, with its daring and divisive midseason finale.
Ideological talk of welfare reform has slammed up against the limitations of policy practicalities and IT systems.
With its daring and divisive midseason finale, "The Mindy Project" just slammed up against one of the main reasons that people watch romantic comedies.
For Lamont, all the good intentions of welfare reformers to push parents to self-sufficiency slammed up against the unyielding reality of a small child's needs.
Ironic name, by the way, since he will now go to jail, a.k.a "the slammer," and get "slammed up the comfort zone" by the culture shock of being there.
And that's exactly where the film slams up against its limits.
(Some neat effects involve action at a close distance — pinning assailants to the ceiling, emptying the cartridge of an attacker's gun before he can shoot her, creating force fields that her pursuers slam up against).
All this is funny, dark, smart, and extremely entertaining — except that, fifty pages in, the reader suddenly slams up against this sentence: "Witches oneWay tspike Mr. Chigyle's Languish, n curryng him back tRealty, recoremince wi hUnmisereaducation.
It's the conviction that there is something valuable in the body-memory of slamming up against a biological limit – of running out of chances – something we all need to learn.
The sound of seats slamming up, shuffling feet exiting the theatre mid-performance and cries of disgust and disapproval are not the reactions a playwright would normally expect at a premiere.
