sandwich

as in to stuff
to fit (people or things) into a tight space sandwiched six kids into the backseat somehow

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Recent Examples of sandwich The Yanks were third behind the Dodgers in 2024 with the Mets sandwiched between the two of them when considering their entire 40-man rosters. Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 9 Jan. 2025 The Villa museum is sandwiched in the foothills between Will Rogers State Park and Topanga State Park in Pacific Palisades, just north of Santa Monica. Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025 The towers are sandwiched between office complexes and a deteriorating downtown dotted with tar paper roofs sprawls outside its back windows. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025 The next day the dough is laminated — sandwiched with a slab of butter and rolled and folded into about 30 layers. Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for sandwich 
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  • Trees must be wrapped in burlap to catch larvae, which are then supposed to be drowned in soapy water or stuffed in the freezer — but the real solution is to simply wait for natural controls, like E. maimaiga, to fight them off, Dwyer explained.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Someone had put Pace’s body in three garbage bags before stuffing her in the suitcase in the fetal position, with her ankles shackled to her wrist and arm, Wamp described.
    Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • Hyde’s artsy, category-defying film can feel a bit chaotic at times, crammed with distracting splinters of key memories (unnecessary flashbacks in which different-looking younger actors embody the same character).
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The norm at least since 2009 has been for parties to take power and then busily, eagerly try to cram their entire agenda into as short a time as possible.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
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  • Jair Bolsonaro’s Stay-Out-of-Jail Card: The former Brazilian president, squeezed by criminal investigations, is looking to Trump, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to shift his nation’s politics — and maybe keep him a free man.
    Ruth Maclean, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Use a fire extinguisher by pulling the pin, aiming at the base of the fire, squeezing the lever slowly and sweeping the nozzle side to side For a grease fire, try to cover the flames with a lid or pan to snuff them out.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • Consumed by the desire to stay in power, he has been wedged between overwhelming public demand for the hostages to be released, and those who keep him in power—his coalition partners.
    Dahlia Scheindlin / Tel Aviv, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
  • This means that an AI assistant layer will wedge itself between the user and business apps, fully controlling the user experience by receiving tasks from users, breaking them down into sub-tasks and carrying out necessary actions in business applications.
    Evgeny Grigul, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • After the show, Springsteen stopped by Toad’s Place to jam with John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.
    Thom Duffy, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Larry then jumped out of bed and rushed at Walker, whose pistol had jammed.
    Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The pyrotechnics team loads enough fireworks to celebrate five or six touchdowns per game, said Vaill.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Already, around 890 unique tankers loaded Russian oil — comprising both crude and oil products — in the past six months, analytics firm Vortexa told CNBC on Jan. 7, with 107 of these ships — or 12% of the total — being subject to vessel-specific sanctions at the time.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • But a film that’s primarily selling eroticism, packed with club beats and the occasionally homoerotic visual gag?
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Everyone is packing their bags, with Scott and Contessa preparing for the journey while strategizing on how to maintain the peace.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 27 Jan. 2025

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“Sandwich.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandwich. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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