jam

[dʒæm]

Definition:
1. Preserve of crushed fruit.
2. Become or make unable to move or work due to a part seizing or becoming stuck.
3. A dense crowd of people.
4. 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.