Example Sentences

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Now Baltimore gets to have the existential franchise panic and Tomlin will cram for a home playoff game versus Houston.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

The Vols will have two sellouts in a row when 101,915 will cram Neyland Stadium next Saturday for the Florida game.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2022

Chips headed for manufacturing plants in the next few years will cram a staggering 50 billion transistors into a space the size of a fingernail.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 14, 2021

At the end of even this strangest of academic semesters, final exams loom and — as always — students will cram for these tests, resulting often in short-lived success followed by enduring forgetfulness.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2020

Jimmy had the higher instinct of the born machinist, who is content to use a bit of string where a school-bred engineer will cram every manner of gear, chains, pulleys and windlasses.

From The Bill-Toppers by Castaigne, J. André