jam
verb (used with object)
to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible.
were jamming
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past progressiveof jam.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The Nuggets were jamming along all night with 16 dunks.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
Social media videos and news reports showed that long lines of vehicles participating in the convoy were jamming up traffic near the National Mall on Wednesday.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
Staff were jamming 11 patients into emergency isolation wards designed for seven.
From Reuters ● Jul. 2, 2021
And as bicyclists began forming their own protests, they adopted strategies to keep riders safe, mainly from the drivers they were jamming up in traffic along the route.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2020
That night the people were jamming, shaking, moving.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
