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 The Yanks were third behind the Dodgers in 2024 with the Mets sandwiched between the two of them when considering their entire 40-man rosters. Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 9 Jan. 2025 The Villa museum is sandwiched in the foothills between Will Rogers State Park and Topanga State Park in Pacific Palisades, just north of Santa Monica. Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025 The towers are sandwiched between office complexes and a deteriorating downtown dotted with tar paper roofs sprawls outside its back windows. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025 The next day the dough is laminated — sandwiched with a slab of butter and rolled and folded into about 30 layers. Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for sandwich 
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  • And here’s a pro-tip for the kids: stuff your pockets with sweets from the candy bar!
    Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Trees must be wrapped in burlap to catch larvae, which are then supposed to be drowned in soapy water or stuffed in the freezer — but the real solution is to simply wait for natural controls, like E. maimaiga, to fight them off, Dwyer explained.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • Hyde’s artsy, category-defying film can feel a bit chaotic at times, crammed with distracting splinters of key memories (unnecessary flashbacks in which different-looking younger actors embody the same character).
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Lawmakers, family, celebrities and tech CEOs crammed into the Capitol Rotunda for a rare indoor swearing-in ceremony.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
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  • Turn the pot on its side and loosen the root ball from the pot's walls by squeezing or tapping the side of the pot a little.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Use a fire extinguisher by pulling the pin, aiming at the base of the fire, squeezing the lever slowly and sweeping the nozzle side to side For a grease fire, try to cover the flames with a lid or pan to snuff them out.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • Consumed by the desire to stay in power, he has been wedged between overwhelming public demand for the hostages to be released, and those who keep him in power—his coalition partners.
    Dahlia Scheindlin / Tel Aviv, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The country club and golf course is wedged between the east end of Pacific Palisades and Brentwood, about two blocks east of West Sunset Boulevard and one block northwest of San Vicente Boulevard at 1250 Capri Drive.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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  • In addition, the levels of electronic warfare have steadily increased, and Russian forces are now well supplied with devices to detect and jam FPV communications.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement The two men, ragged and sleepless, belongings jammed into two battered pick-ups, were regrouping Wednesday morning in La Cañada Flintridge, a few miles northwest of Altadena.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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  • The pyrotechnics team loads enough fireworks to celebrate five or six touchdowns per game, said Vaill.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Already, around 890 unique tankers loaded Russian oil — comprising both crude and oil products — in the past six months, analytics firm Vortexa told CNBC on Jan. 7, with 107 of these ships — or 12% of the total — being subject to vessel-specific sanctions at the time.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • It’s packed with footage from that eight-month period, including outraged football fans burning Simpson jerseys and poignant courtroom scenes.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Season 2 dropped on Jan. 16, and the eight-episode second chapter is packed with even more drama than the first.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025

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“Sandwich.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandwich. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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