CRAM in a Sentence

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34 example sentences for CRAM, such as:

1. The box was crammed with letters.
2. He crammed eight people into his car.
3. Jill crammed her clothes into the bag.
4. The guide is crammed full of useful information.
5. Eight children were crammed into the back of the car.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRAM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cram
 v.  pack; force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  If you want to cram for anything, I should be troubled to recommend you to a better adviser than Loo Bounderby.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
2  Every hotel, boarding house and private residence was crammed with visitors who had come to be near wounded relatives in the big Atlanta hospitals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  She was unable to walk more than a block on the tiny feet which she crammed into too small slippers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  They had dozens of warehouses in that city and in Richmond, so the story ran, and the warehouses were crammed with food and clothing that were being held for higher prices.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  Since there were no sweating passengers crammed in beside her, she reveled in the train's slowness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  She discovered that most of the women in the government bureaus lived unhealthfully, dining on snatches in their crammed apartments.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  She did not return for five months more; five months crammed with greedy accumulation of sounds and colors to take back for the long still days.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
8  Utterly heedless of the wear and tear of her clothes and constitution, and adamant to her pathetic sneezes, Mr. Bounderby immediately crammed her into a coach, and bore her off to Stone Lodge.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
9  Sikes and his companion enveloped their necks and chins in large dark shawls, and drew on their great-coats; Barney, opening a cupboard, brought forth several articles, which he hastily crammed into the pockets.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  Godfrey Staunton had crammed the note into his pocket.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
11  No stockings hung at the fireplace, and for a moment she felt as much disappointed as she did long ago, when her little sock fell down because it was crammed so full of goodies.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
12  "How nicely we are all crammed in," cried Lydia.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 39
13  I crammed my mouth with stirabout for fear I might give utterance to my anger.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE SISTERS
14  He crammed his cap back again into his pocket and re-entered the office, assuming an air of absentmindedness.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
15  She was learned, erudite, wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than a Benedictine nun.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
Example Sentence:
1  At its peak, a million people cram onto the streets over the two-day festival.
2  The house is crammed with priceless furniture and works of art.
3  Jill crammed her clothes into the bag.
4  The box was crammed with letters.
5  Eight children were crammed into the back of the car.
6  He crammed eight people into his car.
7  The whole family was crammed into two poky little rooms.
8  The guide is crammed full of useful information.
9  Several hundred students crammed into the lecture hall.
10  At its peak, a million people crammed onto the streets over the two-day festival.
11  The third night the house was crammed again -- and they warn't new-comers this time, but people that was at the show the other two nights.
12  Such cramming method of teaching is now severely reprobated.
13  It would take two or three months of cramming to prepare for Vermont's bar exam.