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jam-full
adjective as in congested
Example Sentences
His only anecdotes concerned himself and recalled a life of exquisitely eccentric legerdemain, in which, besides having a jam-full professional existence of near-constant clinical work and journal articles, he made time to compose some of the greatest medical literature of the past half-century.
"He was a man and a Negro; a man and a brother; a man and a traitor, as you say; then he was a dead man, and alive or dead he was jam-full of contradictions. So full that he attracted half of Harlem to come out and stand in the sun in answer to our call. So what is a traitor?"
He made 24 speeches to 50,000 attentive South Dakotans; almost every hall he entered was jam-full.
Doc's Lib'ry—as he calls it,—well, they's ha'f-a-dozen she'ves Jam-full o' books—I couldn't tell how many—count yourse'ves!
Usually the master has been hurried out of port by the last rivet driven home, with strange officers and the very weakest of new crews, in a ship jam-full of the newest 'gadjets,' and the least possible reserve of gear to work them.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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