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  • He got right up close to the sluggishly moving F-750, at almost-point-blank range, the muzzle three feet from the steel door, the guards looking lazily not around but up the road at the jammed-up lanes of cars and their blinking, on-again, off-again brake lights that yawned before them, and then Caleb fired.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • He got right up close to the sluggishly moving F-750, at almost-point-blank range, the muzzle three feet from the steel door, the guards looking lazily not around but up the road at the jammed-up lanes of cars and their blinking, on-again, off-again brake lights that yawned before them, and then Caleb fired.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • He got right up close to the sluggishly moving F-750, at almost-point-blank range, the muzzle three feet from the steel door, the guards looking lazily not around but up the road at the jammed-up lanes of cars and their blinking, on-again, off-again brake lights that yawned before them, and then Caleb fired.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • Good thing, too, because if that had been a Katrina size hurricane, all those thousands of jammed-up and stranded motorists on the highway south of Houston would have been in serious trouble, perhaps even killed.

    Think Progress » Quick Rita response raises new questions 2005

  • For the other 51 weeks a year, however, flying will continue to be miserable, especially if your flight arrives or departs through O'Hare International in Chicago or one of the jammed-up New York City airports.

    Airport Solutions 2007

  • The government moves to clear out the air travel logjam in the most jammed-up region in the country.

    CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2007 2007

  • But, what was striking was that in contrast to the normal belligerent Lebanese traffic impasse, people on the jammed-up coastal highway cheered each other and exchanged blessings.

    Dove's Eye View: 2006

  • Taking your side in the discussion, Dale, I noted that Walter's response ignored a major benefit, and the whole point of your proposal: reducing the traffic load on the short, jammed-up stretch of Route 100.

    Columnist: Stephen Miller 2010

  • The DPS officer advised that unless your were a "local" New River was clogged with car's an jammed-up, and the hazmat folks had just been summoned (details unknown).

    SurvivalBlog.com 2010

  • In a keenly modulated revival of Arthur Miller's intense 1955 drama, Liev Schreiber plays jammed-up Jersey dockworker Eddie Carbone with stunning restraint and implosive fury.

    The Seattle Times 2010

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