Jam

//ˈd͡ʒæm//

"Jam" in a Sentence (47 examples)

There was an enormous traffic jam in downtown Kyoto.

Please hide the blueberry jam where Takako can't see it.

A rush-hour traffic jam delayed my arrival by two hours.

Had they left a little earlier, they would have avoided the traffic jam.

The bus was late because of the traffic jam.

I hadn't bargained on such a heavy traffic jam.

I attributed the delay in delivery to a traffic jam.

The accident caused a traffic jam.

I had a lick at the jam.

Take the jam down from the top shelf.

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He is allergic to jam.

She loves eating jam for breakfast in hotels.

It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. […] Well, they got him in the same kind of jam, and soaked him to the tune of three hundred and eighty-six thousand.

She was married when we first met / Soon to be divorced / I helped her out of a jam, I guess / But I used a little too much force

Where, where is my common sense? / How did I get in a jam like this?

The pitcher's in a jam now, having walked the bases loaded with the cleanup hitter coming to bat.

a jam on the 101 South, blocking the two right lanes [radio report]

a jam of logs in a river

According to Boeing, in the history of this elevator design (which exists on all Boeing DC-9/MD-80 series and 717 model airplanes), this accident was the first notification that Boeing had received of an elevator jam occurring on an airplane exposed to ground gusts lower than 65 kts. Boeing noted that the elevator design first entered service in 1965 on the then-Douglas DC-9 airplane.

And a mix CD titled "Summer Jamz 2000." Jamz is spelled with a "z".

The result is an outstanding assortment of sophisticated, sexy and hip-hop-tinged R&B grooves, ballads and party jams.

We came up with some new ideas at the game jam.

[…] a day at new Farm Park with an art jam, fursuit games, and a nerf war, ending in the evening at the strike Wintergarden bowling center.

Teaching is my jam.

Toughie scored four points in that jam.

I used a whole series of fist and foot jams in that crack.

He's got more jam than Waitrose.

I don't think he has the jam.

’Tis fine to be a pretty girl, or just a gay and witty girl, And obviously to be both is rightly counted jam, But even more desirable, and clearly less acquirable, Is that mysterious quality denominated glam.

My foot got jammed in a gap between the rocks.

Her poor little baby toe got jammed in the door.

I jammed the top knuckle of my ring finger.

The Ship, which by its Building was Spanish, stuck fast, jaum’d in between two Rocks; all the Stern and Quarter of her was beaten to Pieces with the Sea […]

They temporarily stopped the gas tank leak by jamming a piece of taffy into the hole.

The rush-hour train was jammed with commuters.

Jamm’d in at midnight, in cold winter weather,

Considering the results of the CFD wind simulation, the NTSB designed several series of static and dynamic elevator load tests to determine what conditions, consistent with the known circumstances of the accident, could enable the inboard actuating crank and links of the right elevator's geared tab to move beyond their normal range of travel and become locked in an overcenter position (and, as a result, jam the right elevator).

A single accident can jam the roads for hours.

The government jams foreign propaganda broadcasts.

The airstrike suffered minimal casualties because electronic-warfare aircraft were jamming the enemy air-defense radars.

Jones was jammed by the pitch.

When he tripped on the step he jammed his toe.

Toughie jammed four times in the second period.

It won't do to jam her,” answered Stone ;" but it might be worth findin' out if th' Hope won't lie closer than t' other can." Half a point ----"

I love this song! This song jams!

Well, technically, a Jam is a working-class Brexit voter who feels alienated by the creeping march of globalisation.

Although most of the income for JAM families comes from work, it is, in many cases, topped up by welfare support.

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