Sentence examples for were gridlocked from inspiring English sources

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were gridlocked

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To cause traffic congestion

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The country's politics were gridlocked; there was the familiar sense of things going wrong.

London's streets were gridlocked, its riverside was drab, its food inedible and coffee undrinkable.

By the middle of the morning, the main roads into central London from the east were gridlocked.

Even in the dark, its narrow roads were gridlocked with a line of coaches and cars tailing back out of town.

In Tirana the streets were gridlocked on Sunday night while people flocked around the monument to the national hero, Skenderbeu, flares and fireworks erupting long into the night.

Two hours before the election announcement, Cairo's streets were gridlocked with cars trying to leave downtown, and it was all but impossible to board a subway train.

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Congress is gridlocked.

Parliament is gridlocked.

It's gridlocked.

The roads are gridlocked.

It was gridlocked for hours".

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