jam

Definition:
Preserve of crushed fruit.
Become or make unable to move or work due to a part seizing or becoming stuck.
A dense crowd of people.
Press tightly together or cram.

Use 'jam' in a sentence:

• 1. Hundreds of jam pots lined her scrubbed shelves.
• 2. Wipe the jam off my mouth, will you?
• 3. She decides to take the next exit and get a cup of coffee while avoiding the jam.
• 4. They will try to jam the transmissions electronically.
• 5. Nearby roads and the dirt track to the beach were jammed with cars.
• 6. I'm in a bit of jam, I haven't got enough money to pay for this meal.
• 7. If you have enough berries, you can also make little pots of sweet jam.
• 8. There is a traffic jam.
• 9. They jammed into buses provided by the Red Cross and headed for safety.
• 10. 400 trucks may sit in a jam for ten hours waiting to cross the limited number of bridges.
• 11. Cane and beet sugar are the usual sources of sugar for jelly or jam.
• 12. Hundreds of callers jammed the BBC switchboard for more than an hour.
• 13. Hundreds of people jammed the boardwalk to watch.
• 14. He picked his cap up off the ground and jammed it on his head.
• 15. Hundreds of departing motorists jammed roads that had been closed during the height of the storm.
• 16. The second time he fired his gun jammed.
• 17. Pete jammed his hands into his pockets.