Example sentences for: jams

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

  • On the smaller and more remote islands — called the Out Islands or Family Islands — intimate resorts cater to your every need and make it possible for you to forget about schedules, deadlines, and traffic jams.

  • Traffic jams and ugly interchanges are annoying, but most people would gladly accept that annoyance in exchange for the freedom that comes with owning a car (and more to the point, being wealthy enough to afford one).

  • The city’s main fresh produce market, Pasar Badung, jams a four-story building and is open from before dawn until midday.

  • Crowning seven hills along the winding banks of the River Tiber, Rome has numerous different personalities: ancient Rome of imperial ruins; Catholic Rome of Vatican City and countless churches; the Renaissance city of Michelangelo and Raphael or the Baroque of Bernini and Borromini; and a modern metropolis of interminable traffic jams, fashionable boutiques and cafés, as well as factories and characterless apartment buildings that make up the post-war eye-sore suburbs.

  • When you consider that Japan is also the center of something called the Osaka Noise Scene, a sort of hardcore punk based solely on feedback and industrial sounds played at screeching, distorted levels, you get a situation where the tie-wearing salarymen (a great word) are listening to seven-second music on the platform and the punk kids are listening in bars to extended hour-long jams that sound exactly like a screeching, out-of-control train.


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