Examples of 'gridlock' in a sentence

Meaning of "gridlock"

Gridlock is a noun that refers to a traffic jam in which no vehicular movement is possible, typically due to congestion or blockage
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  • A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
  • On a smaller scale: the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
  • any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
  • To cause traffic congestion.

How to use "gridlock" in a sentence

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Due to the crippling gridlock in city counsel.
Gridlock games are very cool puzzle games.
We have traffic gridlock in the following districts.
Gridlock is a grid system for responsive design.
It is a victory for gridlock and extreme partisanship.
Gridlock and fight over the blame.
The next two weeks is total gridlock.
Silt could gridlock these historic canals.
The city is shutting down from gridlock.
You will hit gridlock in about two miles.
The regional policy thread is in a gridlock dynamics.
Gridlock has kept police from the scene.
The end result has been legislative gridlock.
Gridlock is the order of the day.
The most likely scenario is political gridlock.

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Gridlock every route except the one we choose.
The nation is indebted to the point of gridlock.
There is hellish gridlock in her neighbourhood.
Gridlock of tunnels and the bridge.
Like the traffic gridlock in a city.
Global gridlock can be defined by numbers.
All the roads are closed off with gridlock.
The instant gridlock may be actually.
They drive and wonder why there is gridlock.
Political gridlock blocks urgent reforms.
There are several incidents of traffic gridlock.
Creating massive gridlock to all of your major thoroughfares.
These are the arguments we have which cause gridlock.
To help end the gridlock created by conflicting ideas.
That really would cause some serious gridlock.
Highways gridlock with people fleeing the city.
They are like roundabouts or traffic jams or gridlock in conversation.
This gridlock cast doubt on the international community.
Yet partisanship and gridlock have struck again.
The gridlock in congress is just a symptom.
The car that loves gridlock.
This degree of gridlock was not intended.
Getting outta there is gonna be a complete gridlock nightmare.
You are in a complete gridlock because of this one issue.
They are heading straight into gridlock.
I still think gridlock is the least bad option.
What you see before you is called gridlock.
I have got gridlock already.
These interchanges back up traffic and causes gridlock.
They are getting through the gridlock on their scooters.
I am done going up in that chopper and reporting on gridlock.
By the looks of the gridlock outside.
A condition that is a result of its political status gridlock.
Total gridlock this morning.
He wanted to put an end to the gridlock.

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