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Example sentences for "jambed"

Lexicographically close words:
jamais; jaman; jamas; jamb; jambe; jambes; jamboree; jambs; jambu; jammed
  1. This he did by gradually opening his huge mouth from ear to ear, the piece of wood being jambed in the angle of the jaws, and resting on the teeth of the huge undershot lower jaw.

  2. The red palate and arch of the gullet were visible above the white tongue of wood lying on the teeth, and jambed into the angles of the jaws above the invisible red tongue of the mouth.

  3. I have here a large wooden diagrammatic model, and a small working model in steel, which shows that the new principle employed is correct, namely, that a ball while jambed is free to turn, or if turning is able to jamb.

  4. For all that, he went in and saw the diver had opened the jambed door.

  5. Sometimes palm kernels that had not altogether rotted jambed the fans, and he held the valve-wheel, trying to ease the shocks, while the perspiration dripped from his blistered skin.

  6. He stood on the seat again and knotted the far end in a loop, and passed the other end through it and hauled taut till it jambed on the branch above, took a couple of turns of the free end round the wheel, and told Ess to hold on.

  7. Ned turned him and cursed savagely, and beat him about the flanks with the butt of his stockwhip, headed him back to the leap, and jambed his spurs in hard as he could drive.

  8. Another thing too, had been in his favour: the rock against which he had been thrown had a small cleft in it, and into this cleft he had been jambed by the force of the water.

  9. Then they stopped on an awkward pitch where a big bulging stone, jambed in a crack, cut their view.

  10. A jambed stone partly covered the hole, and the boys' packs, fur coats and blankets kept them from freezing, but he saw their pluck was nearly gone.

  11. Now, it is no smiling matter to be jambed up against a hot stove on a hot day when the seas run high and the yacht digs her crescent nose into the blue and washes her own decks with Neptune's suds.

  12. Gasping and coughing, I cleared away the smothering rubbish, to find myself a fixture--jambed fast between walls of granite.

  13. Tom was jambed against the rock by the snow; he was nearest to the entrance, his uncle was next to him.

  14. These were cut carefully to the right length, and were jambed between the rocks at a height of seven feet above the floor and five feet apart.

  15. They were sinking a hole through frozen gravel that was worse to cut than rock, because the drill jambed in the crevices and would not turn.

  16. They went down the gully, where jambed stones made rude steps, and reaching the bottom found a belt of grass that led them to the head of a dale.

  17. He held a long paddle with the handle jambed against the pointed stern, and the canoe's side rose out of the water as she paid off before the wind.

  18. A big stone fell beside the man as he seized another prop and with a tense effort jambed it under the beam.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jambed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.