sandwiches

verb

present tense third-person singular of sandwich
as in stuffs
to fit (people or things) into a tight space sandwiched six kids into the backseat somehow

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Recent Examples of sandwiches Our simplified sheet-pan method sandwiches rich mocha glaze with almond cake. — Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 10 Sep. 2026 Thank the aluminum alloy construction, which sandwiches a beech and poplar TrueBlend core and provides tons of stability at speed. — Benjamin Tepler, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026 This team sandwiches seaweed sheets and rice paste into five micro-thin layers; the next steps involve dehydrating, resting, frying and shaping the end result into small cylinders filled with a tiny dice of tuna, or maybe cod milt in the winter. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026 The Japanese-Style Egg Salad Sandwich sandwiches egg salad made with Kewpie Mayonnaise (a Japanese mayo) between slices of milk bread. — Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025 The secret to these bars is using confectioners’ sugar in the dough to get a crisp edge with a soft center bite that sandwiches a gooey, cinnamon sugar ribbon running through the middle. — Amber Love Bond, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2025 This technology has taken more than a decade to develop and consists of a three-layer diaphragm that sandwiches a soft foam layer between two layers of blended paper, resin and ZYLON, the high-performance material used in Yamaha’s flagship hi-fi speakers. — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandwiches
  1. stuffs
  2. jams
  3. loads
  4. crams
  5. squeezes
  6. wedges
Verb
  • Addy Gaido terminates a free ball, Taylor Harvey stuffs a shot, and Greg magic is alive and well.
    — Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The suspect runs inside, grabs rolls of lottery tickets, stuffs them into a bag and runs out.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of stuffs
Verb
  • Responding to these calls also jams up staff and vehicles, increasing emergency response times for the rest of the city.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Bugs Bunny jams himself against the edge and grits his teeth in agony.
    — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of jams
Verb
  • The live feed loads much faster in the Birdbuddy app thanks to a new instant wake-up feature.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 22 Oct. 2026
  • These improvements are intended to help military forces transport larger loads more efficiently and support operational demands across a range of environments.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of loads
Verb
  • Then there’s the Tesseract, which takes the scooter formula and crams it with an almost unreasonable amount of technology.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Neutron stars are considered so extreme because the process that creates them crams between one and two times the mass of the sun down into a sphere with a width of around 12 miles (20 kilometers).
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of crams
Verb
  • When the user presses their finger on the part of the patch that contains the wet fabric, the pressure squeezes the water out of the material, down one of the microfluidic channels, and into the foaming agent chamber.
    — Ben Coxworth October 23, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026
  • In the aerodynamic phenomenon known as ground effect, proximity to that surface squeezes air beneath a craft’s wings to reduce drag and boost lift, with far less propulsive power required than for high-altitude flight.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of squeezes
Verb
  • Add a burst of brightness to a quieter color scheme by way of vibrant shoes like the chartreuse wedges above.
    — Amber Rambharose, InStyle, 6 Aug. 2026
  • His constant companion since Claudine’s death is a small white Havanese dog named Ginger who wedges in next to him on his customary chair in his living room.
    — Amy Driscoll, Miami Herald, 3 May 2026
Definition of wedges

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