How to Use logjam in a Sentence

logjam

noun

• He was called in to try to break the logjam in the negotiations.
• Many importers then quietly used the San Pedro ports to store containers, causing a logjam of ships waiting to berth and gumming up the entire supply chain system.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• Noh fired the low round of the week with a 66 to join the logjam atop the leaderboard.
  — Dallas News, 5 Dec. 2020
• The trade clears up a logjam at point guard for the Pistons.
  — Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2021
• Both teams are 5-4 and in a logjam of nine teams with five wins.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2021
• That may be a wing dam, rock pile, roller dam apron, or a logjam.
  — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 20 June 2024
• Whether that's enough to break a logjam remains to be seen.
  — Manu Raju, Jessica Dean and Paula Reid, CNN, 11 May 2021
• Last year and thus far in the preseason, Hintz has played on the half-wall, but the Stars face a logjam there now.
  — Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2022
• The city even turned to outside service providers to try to break the permit logjam.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 4 June 2021
• Osius gives Rieser much of the credit for breaking the logjam.
  — George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
• But owners and experts warn that the ports are just one part of the supply chain logjam.
  — NBC News, 13 Oct. 2021
• Still, the setback slowed work and forced them to retrace their steps to clear the logjam, the monitors said.
  — Drew Kann, ajc, 19 July 2022
• The goal for all the teams in this Eastern Conference logjam is to avoid the seventh seed.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2021
• The result is a logjam of demand for venues and services.
  — Ray A. Smith, WSJ, 11 May 2021
• Six defensive ends is quite the logjam, and the team is light elsewhere.
  — Andrew Krammer, Star Tribune, 5 Sep. 2020
• Most callers dialed the agency at least 10 times — which added to the logjam.
  — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
• The next step — making the Olympic team — required fighting through a logjam.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2021
• The Bruins’ logjam of bodies on the blue line has been a good problem for Jim Montgomery to have over the past month.
  — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• But a fresh push from the next White House could break the logjam, even if control of the House and Senate continues...
  — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2020
• In doing so, though, the team created a logjam in the ball handler spots.
  — Tony East, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• There has been a logjam at the top of the points chart at Marist for most of the season, with four players averaging 11.
  — Tony Baranek, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2021
• No one shot better than 68, a score that was good for only a share of a nine-player, 10th-place logjam.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 26 Jan. 2024
• The roots of the current logjam stretch back to early 2020, Donnelly said.
  — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2021
• The addition of Betts created a logjam for the Dodgers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
• The good news is the Eastern Conference standings are a logjam.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2021
• That in turn could put pressure on members in each party to be seen doing more to break the logjam.
  — Erik Wasson, Bloomberg.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• But the president's dire warnings have not been enough to loosen the weeks-long logjam on Capitol Hill.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2021
• Landry Shamet and Dario Saric both make $9 million each — but a two-for-one deal doesn’t help the Jazz’s player logjam.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
• The rotation is still a logjam, with Robert Covington healthy but out of the lineup for the third time in his last five games.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• So, there’s a ton of dry powder that needs to be deployed, there’s a logjam of companies that need to be sold, but there’s still a valuation disconnect.
  — Nick Leopard, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024