verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be crammed/stuffed/packed etc full of sth
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Ted’s workshop was crammed full of old engines.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
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Beyond a flint wall was a small graveyard, the gravestones crammed in as though the corpses had been buried standing up.
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A broken toaster and sev-eral ripped window shades were crammed in near a cracked welding gun and a rotting fence post.
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On a big occasion 600 or so are crammed in .
■ NOUN
people
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The amount of people crammed into offices out here, they should have built longer trains.
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About 120 people were crammed on the truck as it headed to the city of Waterloo, 20 miles north of Freetown.
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With 64,000 people crammed into every square mile, the most utterly bizarre happenings raise barely a shrug of the shoulders.
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The 40,000 people crammed on to its terraces on May 9 had come to watch an execution.
■ VERB
try
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The Prussian infantryman clapped his hands to his sword-whipped face, trying to cram his eyes back into their sockets.
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But did anybody think they were going to try to cram all seven games into the first night?
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Don't try to cram too much hair around each roller.
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You can not blame him for trying to cram as much into 90 minutes as he possibly can.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crammed with/crammed full of sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Everyone's cramming for their final exams.
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I've procrastinated all semester, so I have a lot of cramming to do.
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You'll really have to cram if you want to pass the test.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His Paris-based years were crammed with travel, museum visits, contacts with major figures in the arts and formative aesthetic experiences.
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Other times they crammed into a vacant classroom.
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Silver cups - golfing trophies - crammed the mantelpiece over a huge arched brick fireplace.