Example Sentences

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“It’s not just for defense use. You’ve got all these oil tankers and everything getting lost in the strait because Iran and other people are jamming GPS in that region,” Shaw said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Dancers are jamming skills into their rounds to please judges.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024

“They are jamming everything their systems can reach,” said an official of Aerorozvidka, a reconnaissance team of Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle tinkerers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of safety concerns.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2022

Jackson’s definitive sequence — the song “Get Back” emerging as Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr are jamming one morning — merges laddish camaraderie with deep artistic instinct.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021

Paper masks and latex gloves tossed into toilets and washed into storm drains also are jamming sewer equipment and littering rivers.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2021