How to Use logjam in a Sentence
logjam
noun- He was called in to try to break the logjam in the negotiations.
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That could help fix some of the logjams the team has.
—Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025
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That may be a wing dam, rock pile, roller dam apron, or a logjam.
—M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 20 June 2024
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As the logjam grows, there have been protests in parts of Italy.
—The Economist, 20 July 2017
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Both teams are 5-4 and in a logjam of nine teams with five wins.
—Scott Patsko, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2021
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New York has a lot of holes to fill, but there’s a bit of a logjam in that area.
—Peter Baugh, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
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And that’s just one of Cleveland’s logjams.
—Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 11 June 2026
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This was a determined effort to break the logjam in the talks.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
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Which is why there’s a lot of talk about a general election to break the logjam.
—Jen Kirby, Vox, 23 July 2019
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But that has so far failed to break the Washington logjam.
—Marcia Kramer, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
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The city even turned to outside service providers to try to break the permit logjam.
—Steve Brown, Dallas News, 4 June 2021
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But owners and experts warn that the ports are just one part of the supply chain logjam.
—NBC News, 13 Oct. 2021
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Six defensive ends is quite the logjam, and the team is light elsewhere.
—Andrew Krammer, Star Tribune, 5 Sep. 2020
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He was caught in a logjam in the secondary and appeared briefly in two games last season.
—Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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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
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Ohio isn't the only place where the testing logjam has been broken.
—Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 10 Mar. 2020
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Foegele’s presence meant a logjam on the team’s bottom six needed to be cleared.
—Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
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Now, the team is stuck with a predictable logjam in the outfield, and in the lineup.
—Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
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There’s about to be a logjam in Buffalo.
—Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
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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
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Forward logjam This will be something to keep an eye on the rest of the summer.
—Scott Bordow, azcentral, 22 June 2018
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Still, the Red Sox will have a logjam in the outfield this season.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
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In doing so, though, the team created a logjam in the ball handler spots.
—Tony East, Forbes, 29 June 2022
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Osius gives Rieser much of the credit for breaking the logjam.
—George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
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Most callers dialed the agency at least 10 times — which added to the logjam.
—Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
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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
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The next step — making the Olympic team — required fighting through a logjam.
—David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2021
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The Celtics have a logjam in the backcourt and on their roster, but wouldn’t be pressured to rush him.
—Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 20 June 2017
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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
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The obvious goal is to ease the postgame traffic logjam along Route 1.
—Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2019
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