How to Use logjam in a Sentence

logjam

noun

• He was called in to try to break the logjam in the negotiations.
• In the last few years the logjam on lead seemed to break.
  — Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2019
• Noh fired the low round of the week with a 66 to join the logjam atop the leaderboard.
  — Dallas News, 5 Dec. 2020
• There was a bit of a logjam and Joseph was the odd man out.
  — Jeremy Rutherford, The Athletic, 19 Dec. 2024
• 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
• But my goal, at the time, was to do what was necessary to get the aid released, to break the logjam.
  — Emily Tillett, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2019
• 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
• One logjam that could be broken is in the coach’s section.
  — Ryan O'Halloran, The Denver Post, 14 July 2019
• 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
• Which is why there’s a lot of talk about a general election to break the logjam.
  — Jen Kirby, Vox, 23 July 2019
• He was caught in a logjam in the secondary and appeared briefly in two games last season.
  — Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
• 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 obvious goal is to ease the postgame traffic logjam along Route 1.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• And the chief reason for the contractual logjam is that the team has hit on draft picks and, thus, has guys to pay.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• Zarif’s visit appeared to be a gambit to break the logjam.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
• The two started to head east for the exit but Alex could see a logjam beginning and called them to the top of the stands and told them to jump.
  — Steven Goode, courant.com, 25 June 2019
• 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
• West Elementary logjam has forced parents to use shoulders and bike lanes as part of the roadway during arrival and dismissal times.
  — Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 3 Feb. 2025
• Wider walkways – Course walkways are being expanded to twice their size in order to mitigate logjams, especially near the 16th hole and behind the 18th.
  — Candace Oehler, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025