chock-a-block
Example Sentences
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The streets of Tehran, once chock-a-block with traffic, are now eerily quiet.
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2025
Measurements such as stiffness arise from what's called the extracellular matrix -- the space between and around an organ's cells that is chock-a-block with proteins, sugars and minerals.
From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024
"The trees have disappeared. The parks have almost disappeared. There is chock-a-block traffic."
From Reuters • Sep. 15, 2022
Patrons are once again filling up the rows of concert halls and theaters, and a chock-a-block fall season is already filling up the columns of my calendar.
From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2022
Though he’s brought his sneakers with him, hoping to keep up with cross-country training, it is impossible, on these cracked, congested, chock-a-block streets, to run.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
