sandwich

as in to stuff
to fit (people or things) into a tight space sandwiched six kids into the backseat somehow

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Recent Examples of sandwich And double ditto for dental therapists, the relatively new level sandwiched between hygienist and dentist. Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2025 The image below shows a famous strip of Malibu homes sandwiched between Pacific Coast Highway and the ocean just west of Topanga Beach. Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025 Anthony’s testimony lasted about an hour and was sandwiched between testimony from Gulati and the beginning of Garber’s questioning. Melanie Anzidei, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025 Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio An oasis of public land sandwiched between the bustling cities of Cleveland and Akron, Cuyahoga Valley holds 33,000 acres of forest and historic farmland surrounding the Cuyahoga River. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for sandwich 
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  • Draft Blocker If there are a pile of single socks, stuff the other socks into the largest and/or longest one and use it as a draft blocker against doors on chilly days or evenings.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The soft baguette was stuffed with juicy chicken breast in a yellow curry sauce, onions, cucumber, cilantro, jalapeño and sweet pickled daikon and carrots.
    Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025
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  • The passengers, migrants from China and Ecuador, were crammed into the cargo area with no seats or ventilation, concealed by cardboard taped over the windows.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Things can also get frustratingly chaotic in battle when too many enemies and allies are crammed into tight quarters.
    Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
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  • These are dunked in grapefruit ponzu or spicy kimchi dressing or simply squeezed with lemon.
    John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
  • It’s further squeezed by competition from others in the space, including Etsy, Michael’s and Hobby Lobby, as well as big-box and online retailers such as Amazon and Walmart.
    Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2025
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  • District officials in Boundary County, wedged along the Canadian border with a population of just over 13,000, were grateful to receive about $5 million from the new funding bill.
    Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 11 Feb. 2025
  • During drive-by shootings, neighbors wedge themselves between sofas.
    Eduardo Medina, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
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  • In his first two minutes as a Warrior, Butler jammed an alley-oop and muscled his way to the line for a pair of foul shots.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2025
  • You might be jammed onto a bus with a horde of others, maybe even separated from your friends, and then poured into balloons willy-nilly.
    Marla Jo Fisher, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
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  • The deal reportedly loads an extra $2 billion of debt onto Cotiviti's balance sheet — bringing total debt to $7 billion and giving its PE backers very little room for error.
    Claire Rychlewski, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
  • There were also complications in loading the set only the field, car and all, which has under 10 feet of clearance space at the one tunnel the stadium has leading into the area.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2025
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  • The weekend that was • Parts of the Northeast are waking up to more than a foot of snow Sunday morning, as a fast-moving winter storm, packing snow, sleet and ice, leaves more than 15 million people from the Midwest to the Northeast under winter alerts.
    Andrew Torgan, CNN, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The samples should be packed with icepacks during shipping to the soil testing labs.
    Dr. Haiying Tao, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2025

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“Sandwich.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandwich. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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