traffic jam

noun

: a situation in which a long line of vehicles on a road have stopped moving or are moving very slowly

stuck in a traffic jam

Examples of traffic jam in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

From that traffic jam emerged the blueprint for what became the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, soon known by its initialism, ESPN. — Nicole Kraft, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

In the summer of 1978, Bill Rasmussen was sitting in a traffic jam on I-84 in Waterbury with his son Scott when the two of them came up with the idea of an all-sports cable TV network. — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2026

Another main feature of August is the three-way traffic jam that’s forming between Venus in Libra, Mars in Cancer, and Saturn in Aries. — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026

Regulators slowed fleet expansion this spring after roughly 100 Apollo Go cars froze mid-route in Wuhan and the resulting autonomous traffic jam went viral on Chinese social media. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026

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