chock-a-block
Example Sentences
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“Beauty of the Beasts” is chock-a-block with wonderful scientific and cultural facts.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 30, 2026
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 β Feb. 1, 2024
"The trees have disappeared. The parks have almost disappeared. There is chock-a-block traffic."
From Reuters β Sep. 15, 2022
Its tiny next door neighbour, Djibouti, is chock-a-block with foreign military bases, including Chinese and American ones.
From BBC β May 31, 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
