Raising his gun to fire, he was thunderstruck to find that in some way he had jammed the trigger and that it would not work.
Unfortunately something jammed and the rod was jerked out of his hands.
A minute later he was out on the rocks above where the overturned canoe was now seen to be jammed between the rocks.
The bowsprit also was found to have been nipped at the end (though it had been drawn in close to the stem), and the squeeze had quite flattened the strong iron ring upon it, and jammed up the wood into a pulp as if it were cork.
The throat parrell suddenly broke, and the mainsail jammed at once, so that she would not stay.
Then I saw that the door and port were fast before I jammed myself in for a rest.
Then I saw that Andrews's bullet had jammed itself into the joint of the hilt, smashing flat on the steel and breaking up, part of it falling away as I drew it forth.
In twenty minutes, spent anxiously watching her, the ship raised her topsails slowly above the line of blue, and then we saw she really was jammed on the wind and reaching along toward us rapidly.
As they gazed at the two houses so closely jammed together, all of them wondered, some of them even laughed, but not one offered a suggestion which afforded satisfaction to Mrs. Carson or myself.
Do you suppose that I am going to stay here all night with a great empty housejammed up against me, and everybody knowing that it is empty?
I dare say it is good for dyspepsia, and the cows are getting used to having the grass jammed up against their noses.
Finding the latter looking intently at him, he dropped them again and jammed his clenched fists into his pockets.
There was a discontented look on his face, and his hands were jammed deep in his trousers pockets.
Cornelius Charles's head is so jammed with self-satisfaction that his sense of humor was crowded out of door long ago.
They ripped away the boot and laprobe and jammed him back against the seat, their sharp points against his breast.
Quickly he jammed the receiver down on a little metal base which he had placed near the instrument.
I jammed on my hat and, late as it was, sallied forth on this apparently ridiculous mission.
I now felt quite small, jammed into the doorway, all alone with the mob.
The police were making a clearing toward the door where I was jammed in.
On the opening day the court-room was packed, the halls and corridors of the Criminal Court building were filled to suffocation, the neighboring streets were jammed with people clamoring for admittance and hungry for news from within.
Half a dozen young men against whom he was jammedwere tearing the clothes off a girl.
He jammed the bullet in and wrenched at the arrowhead with thumb and forefinger--all he could get onto it.
He wasn't in on the wardroom meeting, and wandered rather forlornly through the ship, incredibly jammed as it was with sleeping men, coffee-drinking men and booty.
The artillery and the trains in many instances became hopelessly jammed on the largely destroyed road.
The streets were jammed as we marched through the villages.
The boat was indeed a good one, for any other, would long before have come to grief in those rapids jammed with rocks and debris.
In double file of tapers the procession began to move between two lines of tightly jammed spectators.
Immediately facing me was an Arab holding a spear over his head, the staff of the weapon being jammed against his back by the pressure behind him.
During the action of Abu Klea the officers were almost entirely employed in clearing jammed rifles passed back to them by the men.
Had the rudder jammed to {491} starboard or to port, the difficulty of steering by the screws would have been greatly increased.
The Arabs fell in heaps, whereupon our front rank, the pressure upon them relaxing, fired, and fought hand to hand with the bayonet, cursing as the rifles jammed and the shoddy bayonets twisted like tin.
Now and again a snatch of song rose and bands of young men of the becero class, a soft felt hat jammed on the back of the head, thumbs in armholes, rolled along sliding their feet and intoning a chorus, "E se la vuoi regirar la ruota.
It cowed him, and with a demented gesture he jammed his hat down over his eyes and flung out of the room.
But, before we were half way over, we were jammed in the ice, in such a manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish.
The 7th Middlesex men put up a fight, but their Lewis gun wasjammed and useless, and they were forced out of the post.
As he wrote to one of his friends, he felt jammed into a corner, and what could he do?
These, some fifty or more, were jammed in the creek, and the men forgot their paddles in the terror that seized all.
The scene on all sides baffles description; of those inside the square very few escaped, they got jammed in amongst the mass of baggage-camels and had but a poor chance of firing or defending themselves.
This was rectified, but after six more rounds the gun jammed and became useless.
The slide was also jammed by the ruins of the revetment.
The soldiers squeezed themselves to make way for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still harder from behind.
Halfway across stood Prince Nesvitski, who had alighted from his horse and whose big body was jammedagainst the railings.
Impelled by the crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a cannon and the crowd were dragging it out.
A monkey rarely lets go any food it has grabbed, and when, as in this case, the hand is jammed in a narrow neck, the letting go cannot easily be done instinctively or inadvertently; the act requires a deliberate effort.
It jammed now, and fearing to lose sight of the chase I dared not stop a second, but ran on, struggling from time to time to wrench the breach open.
Pearl struggled for his liberty; but the two young fellows jammed him down in the bottom of the boat, and held him there in spite of his efforts to shake them off.
He threw it on the floor, and then he jammed the belligerent young man down upon the seat very hard.
Only look at that elderly gentleman with the wig, evidently a parson, jammed in between a brace of buxom virgins on their way down to Doncaster races.
Bob jumped, gave a snort of surprise, and jammed his hand into his pocket.
He poked with his foot at a board with several ugly nails sticking up in it and jammed them carefully down into the ground.
I jammed my foot down hard, and the car seemed to lift out of the air.
Whatever Tish said or did, the result was that only a short time after Aggie had jammed on the brake, they came out together, and Tish was carrying a suitcase.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jammed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
