How to Use gridlocked in a Sentence

gridlocked

adjective

• Any new rules would have to make it through a gridlocked Congress.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2021
• Even in a gridlocked Washington, that sort of effort can still be the art of the deal.
  — New York Times, 29 July 2021
• Relatives tried to reach her, but were blocked by gridlocked streets and a wall of fire.
  — Jack Healy, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• While the Tigers remained gridlocked, the Padres continued to hit.
  — Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2023
• The company aims to build a network of high-speed tunnels near some of America’s most gridlocked cities.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• So the switch to sitting behind the wheel in gridlocked traffic might not always feel like an upgrade every morning.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• The city’s perpetually jammed traffic was even more gridlocked than usual as people raced home from work or to the airport to try to catch a flight.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2021
• Gold prices added 4%, 13% and 5%, respectively, during the three times the Congress became gridlocked.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
• As rumors about the free food giveaway spread, roads were gridlocked and law enforcement responded, Morales said.
  — Michelle Watson, CNN, 5 Feb. 2023
• But even if narrow majorities continue to reign over the House, that doesn’t mean Congress has to remain gridlocked.
  — Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2023
• A couple of months ago, who would have thought a gridlocked Congress would produce a gusher of legislation?
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• Life in the gridlocked Senate would be dull by contrast, although that did not stop him from teasing the possibility for months.
  — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2023
• Like the blob, the federal government grows bigger by the day, and D.C. is a nightmare to exit with its Beltway traffic and gridlocked suburbs.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 18 June 2022
• Even with his legislative agenda stalled in a gridlocked Congress, Biden has options.
  — Matthew Miles Goodrich, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
• The taller, the better is not a refrain usually heard when talking about new construction on Fort Lauderdale’s gridlocked beach.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2020
• Since this reauthorization needs to pass, the ride-on cosmetics regulations have their best chance in over eight decades to move through a gridlocked Congress.
  — Ambreen Ali, Fortune, 4 July 2022
• But nobody will forget the scene in Tuscaloosa that day, a gridlocked city and campus serving as the backdrop for another chapter in the college football’s best rivalry of the 2010s.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 1 Oct. 2021
• And that could prove tricky for a president who is presumably seeking reelection with a gridlocked Congress.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2023
• Outside, the day’s first light paled into a gray glare glinting off gridlocked cars waiting to pass through fortified checkpoints into the capital.
  — ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2022
• In the midst of gridlocked supply chains and inflation woes, UPS continues to benefit from the increase in online shopping as the Covid-19 pandemic persists.
  — Moira Ritter, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
• The pandemic allowed for Betts to drive around L.A. without the gridlocked freeways, slowly familiarizing himself with the city.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
• That’s difficult to accomplish with a gridlocked Congress, an ineffective White House, and the immediate, short-term crises at hand.
  — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2020
• However, the benefits of 5G can’t be realized soon enough, as what was once a free-flowing highway will quickly become gridlocked if U.S. operators don’t add more lanes of 5G.
  — Michael Johnston, Forbes, 22 June 2022
• As part of a $148 million project to overhaul the gridlocked area, construction on the interchange has been ongoing for more than a year, but slowdowns have been limited with most of road closures taking place during nighttime hours.
  — Wells Dusenbury, Sun Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2023
• But that deference has been a target for conservatives – including many on the Supreme Court – who see federal agencies as attempting to make end runs around a gridlocked Congress.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• Throughout his campaign, Kelly called on a gridlocked Congress to pass additional relief.
  — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Arizona Republic, 14 Nov. 2020
• Such an initiative could help unblock Kuwait’s gridlocked politics and restore some balance among the different branches of the ruling family.
  — Fiona MacDonald, Bloomberg.com, 30 Sep. 2020
• On gridlocked Front Street, people were panicking, crying, screaming, honking.
  — Claire Galofaro and Matt Sedensky, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2023
• Still, the ability of Democrats and Republicans to come together to avert a shutdown counteracts at least somewhat the prevailing view that Congress is hopelessly gridlocked.
  — Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Sep. 2023
• But the outlook for the funding is precarious, in a Congress that is polarized, gridlocked and unpredictable in its ability to formally approve new spending.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024