How to Use logjam in a Sentence

logjam

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  • He was called in to try to break the logjam in the negotiations.
  • Noh fired the low round of the week with a 66 to join the logjam atop the leaderboard.
    — Dallas News, 5 Dec. 2020
  • In the East, though, there’s a logjam at the top, with three squads tied at 3-2.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The trade clears up a logjam at point guard for the Pistons.
    — Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Both teams are 5-4 and in a logjam of nine teams with five wins.
    — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2021
  • That may be a wing dam, rock pile, roller dam apron, or a logjam.
    — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 20 June 2024
  • Whether that's enough to break a logjam remains to be seen.
    — Manu Raju, Jessica Dean and Paula Reid, CNN, 11 May 2021
  • Last year and thus far in the preseason, Hintz has played on the half-wall, but the Stars face a logjam there now.
    — Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The city even turned to outside service providers to try to break the permit logjam.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 4 June 2021
  • Osius gives Rieser much of the credit for breaking the logjam.
    — George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
  • But owners and experts warn that the ports are just one part of the supply chain logjam.
    — NBC News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Still, the setback slowed work and forced them to retrace their steps to clear the logjam, the monitors said.
    — Drew Kann, ajc, 19 July 2022
  • The goal for all the teams in this Eastern Conference logjam is to avoid the seventh seed.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2021
  • The result is a logjam of demand for venues and services.
    — Ray A. Smith, WSJ, 11 May 2021
  • Six defensive ends is quite the logjam, and the team is light elsewhere.
    — Andrew Krammer, Star Tribune, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Most callers dialed the agency at least 10 times — which added to the logjam.
    — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The next step — making the Olympic team — required fighting through a logjam.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2021
  • The Bruins’ logjam of bodies on the blue line has been a good problem for Jim Montgomery to have over the past month.
    — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Ohio isn't the only place where the testing logjam has been broken.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 10 Mar. 2020
  • But a fresh push from the next White House could break the logjam, even if control of the House and Senate continues...
    — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2020
  • In doing so, though, the team created a logjam in the ball handler spots.
    — Tony East, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • There has been a logjam at the top of the points chart at Marist for most of the season, with four players averaging 11.
    — Tony Baranek, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • No one shot better than 68, a score that was good for only a share of a nine-player, 10th-place logjam.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The roots of the current logjam stretch back to early 2020, Donnelly said.
    — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The van hit a logjam in rush-hour traffic on the Miramar Parkway.
    — Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The addition of Betts created a logjam for the Dodgers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The good news is the Eastern Conference standings are a logjam.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2021
  • That in turn could put pressure on members in each party to be seen doing more to break the logjam.
    — Erik Wasson, Bloomberg.com, 9 Sep. 2020
  • So, there’s a ton of dry powder that needs to be deployed, there’s a logjam of companies that need to be sold, but there’s still a valuation disconnect.
    — Nick Leopard, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • While fewer people landing on the shores of Italy looks like a success, the resulting logjam on the Tunisian coastline is fomenting anger and despair among migrants and Tunisians.
    — Sam Metz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2024

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