Jammed Sentence Examples

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  • She jammed her hands in her pockets.

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  • The door jammed at his first attempt to open it.

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  • The closer she got to the overcrowded, poor part of the city, the more people jammed the streets, shoving against her in an effort to escape the collapsing buildings.

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  • Awkwardly jammed in the back seat, she sneaked a look at the occupants in the front of the car and withdrew her phone.

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  • They advanced the few hundred paces that separated the bridge from the Kaluga road, taking more than an hour to do so, and came out upon the square where the streets of the Transmoskva ward and the Kaluga road converge, and the prisoners jammed close together had to stand for some hours at that crossway.

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  • She found a chair jammed against the wall and stepped on it to see the crowd.

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  • His own flashlight was jammed in his pocket, pointing absurdly upward.

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  • He jammed in the cig­arette lighter from his sitting position on the floor.

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  • Sandford (awarded the V.C.) in C3 had sighted the viaduct about half a mile off, and running into the iron piers at oi knots had jammed the vessel with its 52 tons of amatol hard and fast.

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  • She was in a car with one of Talon's men, her crumpled body at an awkward angle jammed in the small area between the backseat and the driver's seat.

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  • Dean was waiting for the sound of the coin dropping into the pay phone when he was startled to feel a hard object jammed in his rib cage and hear a voice say, Nice and easy, guy.

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  • The room, obligatorily draped in fishnet and seashells, was packed to the gun­nels with as many standing as occupying the tightly clustered seats jammed into the smoky room.

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  • Behind it, sixteen cars were jammed together all the way back to the highway.

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  • She snatched the keys and jammed them in her pocket then peered through the peephole again.

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  • She jammed her hands on her hips and glared at him.

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  • The dagger jammed it open, and the guardsman reached up to snatch it.

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  • It's like my vision is being jammed.

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  • Halfway across stood Prince Nesvitski, who had alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammed against the railings.

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  • Sitting, she gave up on the jammed seatbelt after a few useless tugs.

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  • The bombshell blonde always threw good dinner parties with fun themes; this theme had been Disco Night, complete with lava lamps, disco ball, tacky '70s music that still jammed out the open windows, and costumes for those who chose to wear them.

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  • He grimaced as he jammed the rifle down into its boot.

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  • Katie hesitated before shuffling forward on her knees.  She carefully touched the woman's leg then patted it as she followed it down to the thick roots wrapped around her ankles.  Unable to see exactly how she was stuck, Katie used her cold fingers to fumble around the root and the woman's sneakers.  "It's really jammed in there," she said at last.

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  • He took a second dagger and jammed it into the lock of her fetters, twisting with a meaty hand.

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  • Hilden jammed his foot between door and jamb.

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  • In ordinary trade balances a triangular piece of hard steel, with a finely-ground edge, is driven through a triangular hole in the beam and jammed tight.

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  • The man beside Lana rocked back suddenly, pounding his gun on the ground as it jammed.

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  • The place will be jammed.

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  • The Coca river may be penetrated as far up as its middle course, where it is jammed between two mountain walls, in a deep canyon, along which it dashes over high falls and numerous reefs.

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  • Vamps jammed both directions of the hall, and Damian sensed Czerno making a beeline for the room behind the wall in front of them.

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  • First, a couple of jammed boulders jammed at head height in the passage were removed.

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  • Some of the injured were loaded onto other double-decker busses, to be taken to hospitals that rapidly became jammed.

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  • In the fruit basket there's a green coconut, already slit, with a straw jammed inside.

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  • One day she got jammed in the toilet at school and was totally distraught and spent the next week jamming other children in.

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  • Every day, we are driven to distraction when the latest idiocy is jammed down our throats.

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  • Then my right foot got jammed in a small keyhole shaped hole in the floor.

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  • The crew struggled for some time to lower a lifeboat which had jammed.

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  • The rift drops over jammed boulders to a mud floored boulder pile sloping downstream to a roaring streamway all of 2 meters long.

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  • We had no prearranged program to be jammed through on time.

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  • The men would be jammed together at arm's length in a tiny shack buried in the snow.

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  • They jammed the switchboard for days with their research findings.

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  • The men would be jammed together at arm 's length in a tiny shack buried in the snow.

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  • As it happens, the changes to the shape of the skeg slot have meant that it has not jammed since making these repairs.

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  • With a sling attached to a jammed boulder, descend 2 m to a spit rebelay.

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  • Believe it or not, with the popularity of online shopping for the holidays these days, some websites will, in fact, exceed their bandwidth and become jammed.

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  • The traffic leading to the tunnel is often jammed on the way back from the slopes.

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  • For example, you may encounter jammed discs that won't eject from the console.

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  • In a crude top-down view, you jammed on the buttons to propel the QB toward the end zone, avoiding defenders.

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  • It is possible that people with OCD experience overactivity deep within the brain that causes the cells to get "stuck," much like a jammed transmission in a car damages the gears.

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  • Instead, it accumulates and starts getting toxic once you've jammed enough in there.

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  • If you're in desperate need of Virgoan attention, make sure your printer is jammed or your car muffler is shot.

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  • Many wireless products, including computer networks, home security monitors and speakers are jammed into the same band.

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  • On the downside, heavily forested and mountainous areas can be problematic, as the signals get jammed easily.

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  • The sidewalks were jammed with people and smells, the traffic thick and loud.

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  • The access pad was useless, the clothing unit jammed, the communication monitor too covered with handprints from her searching to work right.

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  • He jammed his hands into his pants pockets.

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  • Their principal use is to give a sharp jar to the drill on the upstroke so that the bit is dislodged if it has become jammed in the rock.

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  • The end knife-edges are adjusted and tightly jammed into exact position by means of wedge pieces and set screws, and the beam is furnished with delicate adjusting weights at its top. The position of the beam with respect to the horizontal is shown by a horizontal pointer (not shown) projecting from one end of it, which plays past a scale, each division of which corresponds to the i l oth or i hth of a grain according to the size and delicacy of the machine.

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  • See, here's an officer jammed in too-- different voices were saying in the crowd, as the men looked at one another, and all pressed toward the exit from the bridge.

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  • The first two weeks of June were a never-ending list of chores and activities jammed full with last minute preparations, one workplace crisis following another, and an annoying series of details that demanded Dean's attention.

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  • Cynthia looked to her husband for agreement but before he could second her suggestion, Westlake once again jammed the old vehicle in gear.

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