Sentence examples for slams up from inspiring English sources
And that's exactly where the film slams up against its limits.
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Where the doubt of a campaign strategist slams up against a university archive.
(See "Dollar Slams Up Against A (Great) Wall").
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.
(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).
