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    1. “Not again,” Henry said as he lifted up the paper and got a napkin, trying in vain to wipe the jam off the paper and succeeding only in smearing it around even more


    2. negotiated the log jam of the entrance, and having pushed her way into the aisle with


    3. When the jam kicked off again VD got ahead of Melinda and stayed there, just out of reach, taking her to her furthest extreme of speed and anger but always outpacing her


    4. ‘Here let me help … they jam if they’re not put back properly


    5. I hungered, not for the bread and jam on the tray, but for a sense of self worth


    6. It had to be morning because the tray on the floor in the doorway of my cell carried a plate of bread and jam and a mug of hot, milky tea


    7. The simple, sweet smell of jam and bread was utter torment


    8. Robbie left the room and returned a few moments later with a tray containing the usual fare: tea, bread, jam, an apple and water


    9. She stopped their jam, hugged a couple of them then


    10. Between them they manhandled the two ruffians to the rubbish store, threw them in and rammed the door shut, using a nearby length of discarded metal bar to jam the door firmly

    11. The man who runs the chippy leans against the door jam,


    12. pricking out the shapes of autumn berry stains and sticky jam jars


    13. But the positive thing is that it would probably be safe for me to eat something now … I’ve not eaten since breakfast after all … bread and jam


    14. Big Al wiped up the last of the jam with his crust and popped it


    15. Tania and Poly carried his coffee and plate of toast and jam from the kitchen and served him like an honored guest


    16. ‘There’s plenty of bread and butter if you’re really hungry and if you give me a hand with this lot, I’ll probably stretch to some jam


    17. Then you’d better butter several slices of bread for him, is there any blackcurrant jam left? It’s his favourite


    18. You would still have the jam, but you’d have a broken jar on the floor and that would be most inconvenient!” Said The Terrifying and Terrible Lord Ursa


    19. “If it was something you screwed up during the jam I never noticed


    20. There was still a traffic jam of people at the south exit

    21. Just after that Klegnif caught her eye for a jam and she knew a song that would suit Alan’s trip


    22. Klegnif for her part did an excellent jam of a rhythm part to it, feeling the crescendo and giving it a new creative interpretation that might have even advanced the song


    23. Somehow or other Pat O'Brien pitched out of that jam and got Arizona State out in the top of the ninth without Arizona State scoring a run


    24. That main road leading to the hall has a jam


    25. While I waited for the softening up process I delved inside my pack again and pulled out a tin of bully beef and a tin of Ticklers jam these were our dry rations


    26. Never mind I thought and opened my jam which happened to be raspberry but just like the bully the heat had melted it and all I had to show was a sickly sugary goo in the tin


    27. I grabbed the dog biscuit from my mug and it had softened to the same consistency as a normal biscuit I dipped it into the melted jam and I must admit it didn’t taste half bad


    28. “Quick I’m going to open three cans of apricot jam and throw them down the trench when these shit house flies descend on them shovel your grub down before they get back


    29. “Sorry Johnny we can’t even use the jam trick anymore as it is getting scarce so if I was you I would shovel it down as quick as I could before the bastards arrive


    30. Anyway we were sitting in the bottom of the trench Elijah, Eli, Johnny, Ted Wallace and I making bombs out of jam tins which is what we used on the peninsula

    31. Standing in the trench later on waiting for the off we were dressed just in shirts trousers and boots and carrying only our rifles with spare clips of ammo in our pockets three of the patrol were carrying jam tin bombs and both Lieutenant Smith and Sergeant Wallace were carrying pistols


    32. We were sat in the bottom of the trench on the fire step wondering whether or not to make some more jam tin bombs when Major Danby, Captain Melstone and CSM Domby dropped by they walked straight up to where Johnny Eli and I sat talking so we jumped up stood to attention and saluted


    33. ” We reached the cookhouse and got our breakfast we had porridge with bread and jam and hot sweet tea and I must admit that it filled a hole and went down a treat


    34. 'I mean, what kind of a job was it? Minding a machine that puts caps on jam jars? Paid a wage at the end of the week


    35. “There’s jam roly-poly for afters I know that you will enjoy that


    36. ” My god I thought steak I hadn’t seen anything like this in ages and jam roly-poly for afterwards it wasn’t as though things were at starvation levels yet but the food situation was getting tight


    37. As I began to search him his dull blue eyes stared at me accusingly seeming to scream accusingly why are you still alive? I got his haversack off and found it contained some melted Fry’s chocolate a packet of wafer biscuits and a can of Ticklers Jam there were also four packets of cigarettes that would come in handy


    38. This caused quite a traffic jam


    39. Stir in jam, liqueur and 4 tablespoons whipping cream


    40. It seemed that the entire week had been a long series of her injuries, of Reese getting her out of one jam after another

    41. is jam packed with great information, both from a holistic and traditional point of


    42. “But I doubt if I could jam it in


    43. I’d say something like “Hey, I thought we were going to the zoo today,” and everyone would laugh uproariously because I had actually said that I wanted to spread lingonberry jam on Lena’s grandmother’s buttocks


    44. “They tend to jam when not in use, sir


    45. He descended once more, trailing cables and plugs from his computer tower and set it on the ground for Beth to figure out how to jam into the back with Herminia’s oversized plastic bag, while he went to waken Don Alberto and Cecilia


    46. Bear realised the odds were not in his favour, and needed some time to get his head around this jam


    47. Willing hands yanked the thing out and dragged it away, and six men rushed to jam in the next one


    48. Blazin' said, “Heck yeah my brother, I can’t wait for the jam session in the cypher!”


    49. Therefore, it only seemed apropos to break during a slow jam


    50. I paused next to a large subwoofer and listened to the cut as it moved through the sound system; a definite B-Boy jam














































    1. Alan jammed the stump of the club into it's mouth just ahead of her backside


    2. The lights went out; a gunshot shattered the silence; the taxi driver cursed and jammed the gas pedal to the floor, forcing her the rest of the way into the back seat


    3. Once he was satisfied of their plumb he wedged their positions with rocks jammed and tamped down into the narrow spaces between the poles and the hole walls


    4. “Almost all of their machine guns jammed or misfired after a few


    5. home was, jammed in between the two houses beside it


    6. jammed into its space and hung on its walls


    7. The rails were jammed with people enjoying the view


    8. Nimblefax gave her a lick and she saw he had both wheels and the wheel rod jammed to one side


    9. The water around this area had turned crimson with the blood of the wounded and dying and the dead were rolling around in the surf but in some places they were that thick as to be jammed together in masses


    10. I would guess that whatever it was, it was the cause of the interference that jammed our comm system

    11. To say it was a bit hairy is not doing it justice and we lost a few more good blokes on the way in but then we had a bit of luck the machine gun jammed and this allowed us to get into the position


    12. He had expected the place to be buzzing with energy; jammed to the gills


    13. The road to Albert was now as straight as a dye and was packed with allsorts of transport there were horse drawn supply wagons and Crossley lorries all jammed nose to tail and waiting to move a few yards further forward


    14. He banged away furiously with what looked like a hammer but whatever had caused the gun to fail he couldn’t repair it and it was well and truly jammed


    15. “No Sir I’m afraid its kaput a cartridge jammed in the breech and the German gunner smashed the cocking handle trying to free it nothing short of an armourers workshop will get that working again


    16. Apparently he thought she was heartless, as well - over a stupid bird? How long had it been since he had been jilted - five years? And he was still bitter? She jammed her hands in her pockets


    17. I jammed my bony knees as hard as I could into the tough guy’s


    18. It never jammed and could withstand just about any mistreatment


    19. The officer asked Hamp what the stick was doing jammed into the brake pedal like that


    20. The jammed typewriter and its story would have to wait

    21. There was a bank of blue ice, and a couple of logs jammed in there


    22. Les suffered through about a seven-hour erection, jammed into the tight jeans he wore back then


    23. Yet, on this normal day, in a normal garage, a freak with a cockroach on his cheek traced the contours of her face with a switchblade knife then jammed it against her throat while the ugliest man she had ever smelled ground her insides to hamburger


    24. “As soon as they got him in the ward, he freaked out,” Riley reported as the sergeant jammed his feet into the slippers


    25. She hit the Focus just as I jammed the key home and turned it


    26. He jammed the accelerator to the floor and came over the crest of a hill with enough speed to lift the wheels from the pavement and his heart into his throat


    27. I just sat with my hands jammed into my hoodie pockets and watched the galaxy spin slowly overhead


    28. We had one crate left, and three boxcars jammed to the rafters


    29. caulk, a mass of tar and canvas, could be jammed onto a gash


    30. He slipped me an envelope absolutely jammed with cash, when no one was looking

    31. With the gun jammed into his waistband, he hastened towards the rear deck where he encountered a struggle


    32. He bent at the waist, impatiently finding his heel was jammed down the back of one shoe, painfully


    33. ” He positioned himself in the corner, offering the chair opposite and when his new companion joined him, he snatched the straw hat from his head, jammed it on his own and sat, just as the first of the group walked through the door


    34. jammed his hand in his pocket, as if to look for something


    35. When he jammed his cock deep into her with one hard stroke, she shuddered and came, clenching around him


    36. Sometimes I speeded up to be sure I was still behind him, and saw tail lights only a car length ahead as I jammed on brakes to avoid ramming into the back of his vehicle, hoping my truck wouldn’t skid off the road as I did so


    37. Dacian, with cruel precision, jammed the altered blade of his lance into


    38. An interior doc she’d jammed after work took that honor


    39. door was jammed open by the body of a Shinra infantryman, his


    40. Pedestrians, mainly tourists, jammed up the sidewalks and paths, and stood gawking at the sites and taking pictures of themselves

    41. know which roads are jammed without the help of our Radio DJ's and/or Road


    42. If only Genting Highlands had a patch of snow, it will be jammed packed


    43. I lifted the blinds, shoving the jammed window open; a move that would not have caused a whisker of a breath earlier, seriously winded me now


    44. At the President’s blunt insistence the stimulus bill, though not one member had read even one of its 1100 pages, was jammed through Congress in about 48 hours


    45. They all jammed into the closet in gales of laughter


    46. Several budding rock stars were out on the patio, making way too much noise with their amplified instruments as they jammed


    47. “And?” she said as she jammed her gun against Elaine’s head


    48. He diagnosed me with a deviated septum and without any anesthetic jammed steel rods up both sides of my noses breaking new air holes


    49. Then his tormentor did the same, but quickly jammed on his brakes—slowing so substantially that Mike would have hit him had he not braked and driven on to the shoulder


    50. When the cable was fastened, the three jammed themselves into the truck cab and waited for the plough to take up the slack after the driver had blinked his lights












































    1. ‘Kate, you’ll have to get that door checked, it was jamming a bit just now


    2. of heavy metal musicians were jamming together


    3. 'Wait,' I said, jamming the


    4. Klegnif had disappeared as soon as they stopped jamming


    5. But Stenworth stopped her counter-move by jamming a knee into


    6. Occasionally the trio would come upon a horde of sheep or carts laden with supplies jamming the roadway, at such times, they would be forced to wait anxiously in the tightly packed street, choking on the stench of sweat and manure until the flow of traffic crept forward once more


    7. jamming with the waves?”


    8. ‘They’re the new helium implants, that’s why they stand up like so,’ he said, jamming two fists up inside his T-shirt


    9. You’ve pulled a muscle from jamming


    10. The deathbot‘s head swivelled about, coming to rest when it returned to Kaori, "Jamming source located – you are jamming me, Deathbot Infiltrator!"

    11. With it scraping along the ground, the car refused to be steered, but he forced it along, jamming the accelerator to the floor while remnants of the wheel grated thunderously


    12. With a powerful karate kick Russell buckled the door inwards, jamming it securely


    13. As I hopped out of Bruiser’s ride, Dustin and Isaac came out to greet us with poppin’, lockin’ and wavin’, while Dan’s car stereo was still jamming


    14. The way they had all ran and then jumped onto the stage had made them look like paratroopers would have, if they had landed on the ground with instruments in their hands and then just started jamming


    15. It was their guy I had seen last Saturday jamming head spins from across the room; I recognized his pony tail coming out of his knit hat


    16. binary had taken over the screen, jamming the system as she


    17. The beast sliced into Zacchaeus’ torso, jamming his face sideways onto the hard gravel with one paw


    18. Marah's direction brought the reserve pole into play, jamming it closer to the bank behind the


    19. Nuke said he had requested that a few craft would fly by for our entertainment, but along the way, Tesar had decided to play with the installations down there by jamming their signals


    20. "Do you think they can even see the ships with their sensor jamming device?" asked Sarah

    21. “Steng hangs on with both hands while the man pummels him, Steng’s left hand is jamming the cut off valve, his right hand is still squeezing the handle


    22. What follows will be the essential loose jamming that


    23. She tried to push it away but he kept jamming it at her eyes, nose, ears, mouth


    24. Whenever you are running, you don’t want to have your toenails jamming your shoes, since it can become quite uncomfortable


    25. Jamming the truck through its gears, he spun the tires as he fishtailed down the road, sliding to a stop and turning into the barely visible trail left by Bloodtooth‘s truck


    26. jamming all satellites and radio broadcast in the area, so you will be ‘ears and eyes closed’ for one hour


    27. “They are jamming the signal!” Mike shouted putting his sunglasses on


    28. Although an excellent precision and hunting rifle, the Ross Rifle had quickly revealed itself to be overly sensitive to mud and dust, jamming continuously and forcing its withdrawal from service


    29. The access code given each voter with his id code helps stifle jamming of his vote


    30. ����������� Unknown to both German aircrews and their command staff in occupied Europe, who were trying to break through British radio jamming, four squadrons of Bristol Beaufighter fighter-bombers and eight squadrons of Blenheim light bombers, 132 aircraft in all, were about to cross the French coast at extremely low altitude, heading towards the German air defence radars dispersed along the coastline

    31. � Trying to contact the newcomers, he got only the growl of British jamming


    32. � Unfortunately for Galland�s pilots, they either didn�t understand his warning over the jamming or were too stunned by surprise to react immediately: either way, it cost them dearly


    33. Jamming my credit card into the lower boards of the boat, I started it’s motor and pushed it out to sea


    34. Geoff had been trying continuously to phone her, but Carla’s security jamming prevented connection


    35. Her elbow missed his spine by 100mm, jamming viciously into the back of his ribs, causing him to yelp with pain


    36. ‘’Sir, that KJ-2000 has started to emit strong radar jamming signals targeted at the air search radars of our two F-15s and at our own air navigation radar


    37. The F-15Js, their radars still impaired by the jamming from the Chinese KJ-2000 airborne surveillance aircraft, fired in turn a salvo of AIM-120 AMRAAM long range air-to-air missiles


    38. The radar jamming from the KJ-2000, which was still well beyond effective missile range from the Japanese F-15J fighters, weighed heavily in the outcome of that encounter, with the Japanese missiles seeing their own effective detection range dramatically reduced


    39. All of them were equipped with anti-ship missiles and they were supported by four more JH-7A with electronic jamming pods


    40. Those four Chinese fighters were however finding out that their own air search radars were being swamped by intense jamming from multiple sources, leaving them with only their infrared search and track sensor balls, or IRST, as working detectors

    41. Near panic, the Chinese element leader tried to contact the surveillance aircraft that he was supposed to protect, but could not break through the radio jamming


    42. For the first time the Germans were operating their jamming stations in a big way and not a single British radar instrument was able to function


    43. Much higher but still close to the Chinese coast was an EC-200R, on board which stood Ingrid Dows, which had activated mere minutes ago its electronic jammers in order to jam the two sole Chinese air search radars covering the Beijing area, as well as jamming the radio command network of the Chinese military


    44. In fact, you have here what is the latest in GPS jamming technology in the World and it was tested in real conditions against military-grade GPS guidance and positioning systems


    45. They also used some kind of new and quite efficient radar jamming system and were incredibly tough ships


    46. If any Japanese radar lit up then, the second EC-142E, flying well separate from the attack formation, would then jam it at once, apart from jamming all the Japanese radio command frequencies as soon as the attack started


    47. Second, protect those small bomber packs with both escort fighters and radar jamming electronic reconnaissance aircraft, and this up to the objective


    48. ‘’No, Sir Charles! It would however probably be able to detect and analyze those signals, but the jamming would still have to be done from an aircraft in reasonable proximity to the signals emitter, in order for it to have enough power to jam it


    49. ‘’But,’’ objected James Doolittle, the commander of the 8th Air Force, ‘’wouldn’t this necessitate that some bombers be in the air as well, to entice the Germans into activating their targeting radars? However successful such a jamming operation could be, those bombers would still be at extreme risk during such a mission


    50. hair as he quickly led her out of the office while jamming the











































    1. You and I have not seen a soul since we left Ritterston this morning … if this were Earth, we would have gone through a dozen or so villages, and probably got stuck in a couple of traffic jams – everywhere on Earth you find signs of man and his works – and generally speaking not good signs


    2. Tania and Poly once again served coffee and offered her plates of toast with butter and jams


    3. The aromas of the meal arrived before the server returned laden with a tray of steaming biscuits, eggs, a rasher of bacon and sausages, toast and bowls of jams and butter


    4. Toast and sausages, butter, jams, biscuits and coffee or juice were standard morning fare at Clive House


    5. Yes indeed! Away with everyday traffic jams, be gone tiresome railway waiting rooms and congested bus terminals, with DOCTOR GLORIA PLANKTON's new flying course it's Hello Blue Skies as you soar gracefully through the heavens like something that soars gracefully through the heavens quite a lot


    6. Oh, there is tourism but it hasn’t taken over this city of 200,000 the way it has Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo, with their pricey high-rise hotels, traffic jams, noise, and sharp characters looking to make a few


    7. C’mon mates!” At that, the trio headed off for a local pub and tucked into a late-morning repast of tea, rolls, biscuits, and all manner of butter, sweet local jams, and fresh cheeses


    8. Test them beforehand, because some hollow points do cause jams


    9. But what if it jams, which sometimes happens! I know of a case where the policeman was stabbed and his own blood made it very difficult to cock the Z88 because it made it too slippery


    10. superhighways, families planning their vacations were oftentimes required to take the ―scenic‖ route; traveling through non- descript towns, subject to traffic jams, ubiquitous traffic lights and nervous breakdowns that sought a temporary reprieve at some roadside diner where the family would stop to eat and address their biological requirements before reaching their final destination

    11. The traffic is really terrible and will cure you of all ideas you have of traffic jams in first world countries


    12. He was always bumping the bass and Bboy jams from his car; loud and proud


    13. Then Slim Jim shook my hand and started Poppin’ as the slow jams had ended


    14. My friends sort of hung out by the popcorn machine that was by the entrance, so I walked back over towards them after I checked out those two Bboys, when I saw all of my homies checking out this group of twenty something’s that were housing it up and jack dancing to the rink DJ’s house jams


    15. The jams of teaching self-recovery


    16. caught in traffic jams


    17. We all know that Jalan Tun Razak is the Mecca for traffic jams


    18. In the small refrigerator she had seem a selection of jams and


    19. She stuffed the slices of bread and the jams into one of her parkas


    20. Whitefish Bay, at the southeastern end of Lake Superior, was invariably a congested area because the shallow bay allowed rapid ice formations that grew into ice jams which traveled unimpeded over the vast East-West-bearing lake at the head of the prevailing westerly winds

    21. Traffic jams were not unusual in Malibu with tourists visiting the city from all over the world


    22. Predictably, all cities were soon experiencing traffic jams, pollution, noise, ring-road construction, and endless expense


    23. Steve once again took off his shoes and let his hairy feet grow, and then let off the stinkiest toe jams


    24. Steve laughed, but the other children were getting choked and turning green from Steve's toe jams


    25. Steve took off his shoes and let his feet grow to produce toe jams, but that did not bother the spider


    26. The only thing that was left was for Steve to pull off his shoes and let his toe jams wake Mr


    27. Steve then took off his shoes and let his toe jams out; his feet grew big and the odor did a good job


    28. Steve knocked them out with his toe jams, and Millie was disappearing and secretly tying up men with their own chains


    29. Suzy jams the cushion under the headrest making it look as head shape as she can


    30. Because of the ongoing battle with the plate freezer, it seemed that we always had someone stationed up there to get the jams out

    31. Imagine, making the same money you make working 40 plus hours a week, dealing with traffic jams daily, putting up with slobs, and stressing over job security, without the headaches and hassles


    32. One was the state of the road traffic in the Los Angeles area, with its massive road jams that made the use of a fast sports car redundant


    33. This caused the build-up of enormous traffic jams, resulting in major logistical and supply difficulties


    34. Once he reaches the bubble he jams a chromobomb into the opening of the ventilation shaft and hits the deck


    35. enough to have caused millions of New Yorkers to sit in traffic jams and


    36. Or perhaps buying the array of jams, pickles, or flavoured olive oils in order to stock up there pantries at home


    37. ‘Same of the same, I’m afraid, working hard and travelling a lot, traffic jams and long waits at the hospitals


    38. An example is exposure to traffic---we need to assess how they let the discomfort pass, such as leaving early to beat the traffic jams, sleeping during traffic hours or singing, watching movies or getting irritated, cursing etc


    39. Common courtesy games, like the simple politeness of 'After you' , can go feral in untamed areas, like traffic jams, resulting in road rage


    40. • MC5 - "Kick Out the Jams" (1969)

    41. Priscilla could branch out with recipes, jams, cakes, gardening advice, a column in a magazine, a cookbook and more


    42. Jams and jellies, squash, green beans, pickled okra, tomatoes, salsa, apple sauce, you name it; it was there


    43. their offices, or stuck in traffic jams


    44. Also during the many traffic jams I learnt that unless you were bumper to bumper some arsehole would stick their car into your lane


    45. Macnock had set up a table nearby and a breakfast feast of breads, jams, meats, hard-boiled eggs and hot coffee was spread out upon it


    46. It’s unclear if he jams the guy with it, or if I push the guy onto the knife myself


    47. Agami which was practically a desert with just a few villas, a few cabins, one single hotel cum nightclub which collected the well-to-do youth of the day, during the summer nights and whose crowning glory was the beach and the sea, has now become a city of apartment blocks and hotels and traffic jams


    48. It is alive and exploding with hotels and huge apartment blocks, with crushing crowds and traffic jams, dirty streets and polluted beaches


    49. Alexandria started emptying after the first week of September and the beaches were a delight not only because the crowds and the traffic jams at the Corniche had eased but also because the usually turbulent sea and huge waves that alternated with milder conditions throughout July, August and mid-September gave way to an exceptional calm


    50. Athens is one of those cities that never sleep; ordinarily it has traffic jams at two in the morning

















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    Synonyms for "jam"

    electronic jamming jam jamming crush press fix hole kettle of fish mess muddle pickle block close up impede obstruct obturate occlude chock up cram jampack ram wad mob pack pile throng wedge squeeze force crowd predicament spot box corner

    "jam" definitions

    preserve of crushed fruit


    informal terms for a difficult situation


    a dense crowd of people


    deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems


    press tightly together or cram


    push down forcibly


    crush or bruise


    interfere with or prevent the reception of signals


    get stuck and immobilized


    crowd or pack to capacity


    block passage through