How to Use gridlock in a Sentence

gridlock

noun

• We were caught in a gridlock.
• An accident caused gridlock at rush hour yesterday.
• Disagreements about funding have caused legislative gridlock in Congress.
• The chaos caused gridlock on roads near the grocery store, Morales said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft Fort Worth Star-Telegram (tns), al, 5 Feb. 2023
• To avoid the stress of gridlock, opt to travel outside of rush hour and on off-days.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 30 June 2023
• Before the gridlock began on the House floor on the first day of the 118th Congress, Glenn Ivey had a party to go to.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2023
• Bredesen and Haslam have worked to break through the gridlock in a podcast airing through the midterm election.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2022
• What matters most is whether someone can fix our gridlock and make the trains run on time.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• On the Senate side, there's going to have to be some sort of way to end the gridlock if anything is going to get done.
  — Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2022
• My own work has shown that the public does not like gridlock on issues in which people agree on the end goal.
  — Laurel Harbridge-Yong, The Conversation, 26 May 2023
• Downtown Manhattan has some of the worst gridlock in the United States.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 21 July 2023
• Far less interest in compromise and more gridlock in the halls of Congress.
  — Brian Slodysko, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2022
• With Congress in gridlock, here’s a look at what three states are doing: Washington State.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• There will be days when one looks ahead and sees nothing but hopeless gridlock, stretched out forever.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2023
• Drivers want to be on the move despite gridlock, slow-poke tourists and people paying more attention to their cellphone than the light that just turned green.
  — Miami Herald Staff Report, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• Biden spent less time articulating a vision for the next year ahead of gridlock in Congress.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2023
• Fear, urgency and then panic as gridlock stymied escape and flames closed in, making car windows too hot to touch.
  — Karim Doumar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• The result is more gridlock in the labor market that’s curtailing hiring.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
• The second is my road rage—furiously impatient to end up stuck in rush hour gridlock, shouting and banging my fists against the wheel.
  — Blake Butler, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• The Speaker of the House gridlock last week revealed the pain of what can happen when parties fail to collaborate and come to an affable agreement.
  — Kate Vitasek, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• That has the benefit of sparing central London from gridlock while also ensuring that the crowds lining the streets do not look sparse.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
• The new dynamic is more likely a prescription for shutdown and gridlock.
  — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
• Then, in turn, when nothing happens, either gridlock will bring all sides to the bargaining table, or power to deal with the issue will remain with the states, or with the people.
  — The Editors, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
• All of this is a recipe for two years of gridlock in Washington, which certainly beats the progressive binge since January 2021.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
• Concern about health care costs helped break that gridlock, and that holds a broader bipartisan lesson.
  — Dave A. Chokshi, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
• Some of this process still takes place, but in an era of divided government and partisan gridlock, the spending bills drafted by the House this year had no chance of passage in the Senate.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
• The dynamics creating gridlock at the federal level aren't present in most states.
  — Ben Koltun, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• The big problem with that argument is that Sinema herself has been responsible for so much of that gridlock.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 May 2023
• In areas where you’d normally be stuck in gridlock traffic, motorcycles are able to split between the lanes.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2022
• Should spending increases trigger automatic increases to the U.S. debt limit so that political gridlock does not cause the country to default on its debts?
  — Charlotte Observer, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024