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 This show is immensely silly, sunny fun, and the whole thing is refreshingly low stress, even if this one cruise ship is the site of more than enough emergencies to hold its own in ABC’s Thursday-night block, sandwiched between 9-1-1 and Grey’s Anatomy. Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025 Now, however, what may be the first-ever direct, real-world observation of the butterfly has emerged from the complex quantum dance of electrons sandwiched between two microscopic layers of graphene. Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2025 That’s because the building’s 25 floors of office space are sandwiched between a private club below and luxury condos above. Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 27 Mar. 2025 The country also links Russia with its isolated Kaliningrad exclave, sandwiched between NATO members Poland and Lithuania. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sandwich
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  • Morning meals range from croissant sandwiches stuffed with eggs, cheese, and your choice of bacon, sausage, or ham to avocado toast or a breakfast burrito.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The modern university is stuffed with lawyers, data scientists, computer scientists, cryptographers, marketing researchers, writers, media professionals, and tech policy mavens.
    Ars Staff, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2025
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  • The result is that what was once a star core becomes a stellar remnant with the mass of the sun crammed down in a diameter of around 12 miles (20 kilometers).
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Hundreds of thousands are crammed into squalid tent camps with dwindling food after Israel sealed off the territory from all imports more than a month ago.
    Isaac Scharf, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
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  • Mike Pavlik, whose family lived across the alley behind ours and who was the leadoff batter on our softball team, squeezed my arm.
    David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Consumer confidence has taken a nosedive in 2025 as Americans grow more concerned that inflation could spike again, and tariffs will squeeze their wallets.
    Austin Denean, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2025
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  • As do the cracks in the field, where the wheels on their chairs occasionally get wedged.
    Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The air fryer, which her husband placed, was awkwardly wedged into a strip of counter between the stove and the refrigerator.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
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  • The crowd jammed into the old mill are joined by West African ceremonial dancers and drummers, popping and locking hip-hop movers from the future, a deejay working turntables and a Rick James-style guitarist bedecked in sequins.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025
  • On the county level, local sheriffs, public defenders and judges have testified the law is jamming up courts, straining a thin treatment infrastructure and stranding some people in jail.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2025
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  • The Mets had the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth inning and were already leading 9-5 when Tyrone Taylor hit a deep drive to the warning track at Citi Field.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Holt Logistics employs about 500 workers at the Port of Philadelphia, where longshoremen unpack and load products like fruit from around the world — produce destined for supermarkets across the U.S.
    Tom Hanson, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
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  • The formula is packed with hyaluronic acid to deeply hydrate and plump the skin, and it can be applied on its own or mixed into a moisturizer.
    Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Ironwood delivers higher throughput compared to previous Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), and Google really plans to pack these chips in.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Sandwich.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandwich. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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