traffic jam
Example Sentences
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The Red Cross was deployed to help those stuck in traffic jams in the state of Styria, where a motoring organisation described the roads as "virtually inaccessible to private vehicles".
From BBC
The same forces that produce traffic jams and market bubbles—congestion, imperfect information, coordination failures—are at work here too, only with candles.
Work on the structure began in 2018, with the aim of easing congestion over the nearby Ambassador Bridge, where trucks sometimes wait hours in traffic jams.
About halfway down the mountain, they ran into a terrible traffic jam.
From Literature
That could lead to traffic jams since visitors will have to take their cars more than a mile up the mountain.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
