Example sentences for: jammed

How can you use “jammed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In any event, my lines were jammed with callers seemingly unaware of the joke; several worried aloud that May 4 th farms were around the corner from next November.

  • Others, attempting to descend, were frustrated by jammed or locked doors in stairwells or confused by the structure of the stairwell deviations.

  • Dispatched to do a thermal analysis, a general reports, "The thermal analyzers have jammed."

  • Based on Orson Welles' 58 page memo detailing his objections to the studio's cut of his much-tinkered-with 1958 noir classic, this re-edited version "unspools with all the complex, unnerving menace and nihilistic subtext its writer-director had in mind all along" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics take the occasion to rethink the movie itself: "A jammed, discordant, discomforting experience--a nightmare, in fact, but a nightmare that leaves in the wake of many complications a moral significance of disturbing perversity and brilliance" (Denby).

  • Fishermen land their catches at Padangbai’s small busy beach, which is jammed with boats, just to the north of the main jetty.


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