traffic jam
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- traffic-jammed adjective
Example Sentences
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Instances of autonomous vehicles making mistakes, trapping passengers in cars and causing traffic jams or accidents also continue to make headlines.
From BBC
“People would land at LAX for two hours and would just drive out to Brentwood to look. We had traffic jams for months.”
From Los Angeles Times
My car never tires, panics or wavers; it doesn’t jolt at brake lights or grumble at traffic jams.
Fleeing patrons seemed to have caused a traffic jam while crossing a nearby street from the mall.
From Los Angeles Times
The planet's strong gravitational pull generated ripples throughout the disk, creating what they describe as "cosmic traffic jams" that kept small particles from falling into the sun.
From Science Daily
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