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 Mountain State, Almost Heaven, Wild and Wonderful, West Virginia has a few different reputations, all of which hint at the goods sandwiched inside this small state’s borders. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 18 July 2025 Construction for The Line project in Saudi Arabia’s NEOM, October 2024 Giles Pendleton, The Line at NEOM It’s designed to be a high-tech city sandwiched between two glass skyscrapers — each more than 1,600 feet high — which the Saudi government says will eventually house 9 million people. Natasha Turak, CNBC, 18 July 2025 The shield is made from a carbon composite foam sandwiched between two carbon plates. Victoria Corless, Space.com, 14 July 2025 The custard is sandwiched between crispy, sweet corn shortbread cookies — a nod to backyard cookouts, the website said. Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 31 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for sandwich
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  • Thierry notified me of his satisfaction with another grunt and reached into the pillowy recesses of his fleece to produce a tatty padded envelope stuffed with Euros.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Hasty got stuffed twice at the line, while the rest of the backs were stonewalled once apiece.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
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  • The few health centers and nutrition treatment centers that are still functioning are crammed with people as cholera cases continue to climb.
    Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Halle hunched nervously between the runners as we were crammed together at the start line.
    Ula Chrobak, Outside, 9 Aug. 2025
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  • Ewers was impressive finding A.J. Henning on one throw and squeezed a pass into a tight window to running back Ollie Gordon II.
    David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2025
  • To squeeze all this into exactly 100 days between Wrexham staging a promotion party after last season had ended and Tuesday’s cup tie against Hull is impressive.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
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  • But making Anna a music-biz manager trying to keep her heartbroken client Ella (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) from a meltdown on the eve of a big concert at the Wiltern is just a laborious way of wedging Anna’s former band, Pink Slip, into a splashy concert climax.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
  • More trucks follow, as do motorcycles and horses, children wedged between parents.
    David Nolan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2025
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  • After Dex takes her down, Weyland recovers her brain and jams it into a supercomputer.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • House Republicans jammed Senate Democrats in March with a partisan funding bill, which Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) reluctantly voted for to avoid a shutdown.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 28 July 2025
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  • Golden Hill, which did not score for the first nine innings of the tournament, loaded the bases again off Alpine starter Max Turner before Jake Morris earned another walk to plate Yun with a third run for a 3-0 lead.
    Dennis Pope, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Then, the sandwich is loaded up with lettuce, tomato, Cheddar cheese, bacon, and your preferred filet.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
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  • The accompanying clip shows row upon row of flower arrangements arrayed on the floor after BID workers carefully removed them from the bridge and packed them in plastic bins.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Republican candidate for governor Bill Berrien worked the crowd at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center on August 6 — and packed his day with reporter interviews.
    Mary Spicuzza, jsonline.com, 7 Aug. 2025

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“Sandwich.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandwich. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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