How to Use traffic jam in a Sentence

traffic jam

noun

• With so many people, the traffic jam at times slowed to gridlock.
  — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Some sought to leave the country, causing a traffic jam at the border with Syria.
  — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
• If there is an extended traffic jam, turn off the engine for a while, then back on.
  — Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press, 22 Feb. 2023
• The number of people in one area can cause quite a traffic jam for drivers looking for a place to park.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2024
• The teams entered the weekend locked in a three-team traffic jam with Oregon State for second in the conference.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• Executives, such as Bob Iger, waited an hour to walk the red carpet due to the traffic jam.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
• Down the hill, there’s a traffic jam on the road leading out of Hasbaya west towards Marjayoun.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 24 June 2024
• Video of the traffic jam obtained by WBZ News shows dozens of bikers parked on the outbound side of the bridge as some do donuts and spin their tires on the pavement further ahead.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023
• At one point, the road looks more like a parking lot as bulky military vehicles and trucks cause a traffic jam.
  — Jeremy Diamond, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• The traffic jam of vessels backed up ports, once a symbol of the supply chain crisis, has all but disappeared.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 8 June 2023
• Jonathan Gitlin The traffic jam assistant was quite helpful.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
• Behind them, a miles-long traffic jam snarled the morning commute through downtown, south of the interchange with the 101 Freeway.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Skip the cattle car boat tours of the island and the traffic jam at the Blue Grotto and opt for a private or semi-private day or half-day out with a boat and captain.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2024
• Some died fleeing by car, when flames overtook vehicles caught in a traffic jam.
  — Kyle Rempfer, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
• Not creeping along in a traffic jam to work, but driving for the sheer pleasure of it, without a destination, taking in the scenery.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• Others described a traffic jam of cars trying to escape.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2023
• Gladden slowly makes his way inside as the traffic jam of stars reaches its bottleneck near the venue’s entrance.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
• Set in a traffic jam, the scene played out as a series of insults was lobbed from one driver to the other—and rendered, primarily, through pantomimes.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2023
• Russia’s Izvestia newspaper reported on Monday that an eight-mile traffic jam had formed in the Krasnodar region at the entrance to the bridge to Crimea.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 3 July 2023
• Just a couple of years ago, the sport’s two most popular players crossing paths on Thursday at the Masters would have caused a human traffic jam.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• Caltrans District 3 said in a tweet that a traffic jam ensued as officials cleaned up the presumably sticky scene.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• The freeway was briefly closed on Saturday, triggering a traffic jam through the area, officials said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 16 June 2024
• Police accused the group’s protest of causing a traffic jam that impeded an ambulance with blue lights on.
  — Mallory Moench, TIME, 11 Nov. 2023
• The tense morning standoff led police to shut down both sides of the freeway, snarling thousands of drivers in a massive traffic jam just ahead of the Memorial Day weekend.
  — Josh Cain, Orange County Register, 28 May 2024
• After the final whistle, fans leaving Snapdragon were stuck in its largest traffic jam.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• The collision prompted a major traffic jam on the freeway as the morning commute was getting under way.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
• With cars, heat can over-inflate tires, make asphalt roads sticky — especially for those large trucks in front of you on the highway — and running the A/C in a traffic jam will overheat your engine.
  — Peter Green, Quartz, 1 June 2024
• Ten Cruise taxis inexplicably came to a halt here on Aug. 12, blocking all traffic on both one-way streets and causing a massive traffic jam.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2023
• There was an eerie traffic jam of charred cars that didn’t escape the inferno as surviving roosters meandered through the ashes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• Just as the sun was beginning to disappear into the city skyline, the arena’s app did malfunction, causing a pedestrian traffic jam at the main entrance for an hour.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024