How to Use gridlock in a Sentence

gridlock

1 of 2 noun

• We were caught in a gridlock.
• An accident caused gridlock at rush hour yesterday.
• Disagreements about funding have caused legislative gridlock in Congress.
• And those who plan to drive may be hit with gridlock.
  — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 14 May 2026
• There will be gridlock, and dozens of arrests.
  — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2025
• When teams are stuck in gridlock, speed-to-market drops.
  — Lindsay Phillips, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• There’s precedent for this kind of gridlock.
  — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
• The chaos caused gridlock on roads near the grocery store, Morales said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft Fort Worth Star-Telegram (tns), al, 5 Feb. 2023
• What matters most is whether someone can fix our gridlock and make the trains run on time.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• To avoid the stress of gridlock, opt to travel outside of rush hour and on off-days.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 30 June 2023
• Sunset Boulevard seized in gridlock as cars stacked nose to tail.
  — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
• My own work has shown that the public does not like gridlock on issues in which people agree on the end goal.
  — Laurel Harbridge-Yong, The Conversation, 26 May 2023
• Rideshare and taxis are widely available too, but light rail avoids the post-match traffic gridlock.
  — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
• The House is out this week (as of now) and gridlock remains in the Senate.
  — Ian Swanson, The Hill, 6 Oct. 2025
• This is gridlock week in Miami.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
• And that's where the diplomatic gridlock is costing so many people their lives.
  — ABC News, 9 Nov. 2025
• Some drivers were even seen making U-turns to escape gridlock.
  — Da Lin, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
• In New York, gridlock is not just frustrating.
  — Ira Goldstein, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2026
• Thousands more cars can translate into even worse traffic gridlock.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 4 May 2026
• Bredesen and Haslam have worked to break through the gridlock in a podcast airing through the midterm election.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2022
• Washington—what with its byzantine rules and aggressive gridlock—would not box him in.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 15 Apr. 2026
• The uncertainty around which voter map to use has left county election boards in a state of gridlock.
  — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2026
• The American system is built for gridlock.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
• There were concerns about traffic gridlock around the airport and neighboring streets.
  — Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
• On the Senate side, there's going to have to be some sort of way to end the gridlock if anything is going to get done.
  — Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2022
• The agency has been shut down for nearly two months amid congressional gridlock over funding it.
  — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 13 Apr. 2026
• Fear, urgency and then panic as gridlock stymied escape and flames closed in, making car windows too hot to touch.
  — Karim Doumar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• Concern about health care costs helped break that gridlock, and that holds a broader bipartisan lesson.
  — Dave A. Chokshi, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
• Far less interest in compromise and more gridlock in the halls of Congress.
  — Brian Slodysko, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2022
• Our world needs statesmanship, not gamesmanship and gridlock.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2023

gridlock

2 of 2 verb

• With so many people, the traffic jam at times slowed to gridlock.
  — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• To view them as part of the landscape, like the Golden Gate Bridge or gridlock on 880.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2021
• Angling for position, the taxis engage in a series of polite reversals and turns that quickly gives way to gridlock.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2024
• That policy change, according to mailing and logistics experts, would gridlock the entire postal network.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2021
• Their effort has been criticized as a road to gridlock while, in the aftermath instead, a summer of litigation and investigation of actions has played out.
  — Alan Wooten | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Aug. 2024
• The crowd roared approval at the idea that their movement would gridlock the city if jurors hearing the case against former police officer Derek Chauvin failed to convict him in Floyd's death.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2021
• Management’s proposal called for the threshold to be dropped to $180 million, another factor that may gridlock many free agent negotiations.
  — Ronald Blum, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2021
• Such a shift would likely gridlock Washington, effectively ending the prospects for further fiscal stimulus before the 2028 presidential election.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
• Hitler exploited his 37% to gridlock legislative processes, to cudgel or crush the political opposition, and ultimately to undermine the country’s democratic structures.
  — Timothy Ryback, TIME, 26 Apr. 2024