Tightly packed

Usage examples of chockablock.

It was chockablock with salons and saloons, hippodromes and nickel pitches, emporia, divertissements, hijinks, kickshaws, bagatelles, burlesque, and buffoonery.

Well, these magazines are chockablock with scandals and heart-wrenching tragedies.

Once when we had to attend a meeting outside the offices, Penny had led me on what she called a short cut through the Archives--miles on miles of endless files, each one chockablock with microfilm and all of them with moving belts scooting past them so that a clerk would not take all day to fetch one file.

Gropp was on greased rails to spend his declining years for Brutality While Under Color of Service -- a serious offense-- in a maxi-galleria stuffed chockablock with felons whose spiritual brethren he had maimed, crushed, debased, blinded, butchered, and killed.

The royal pool was soon chockablock with boys, none younger than six nor older than ten, all barefoot, all dressed to confront the muckiest conditions successfully, all of them armed with great and glittering glass jars.

Considering that the air of Oblivia was chockablock with real live vultures, from fencepost level to the stratosphere, I could see little point in their flourishing a dead and stuffed one.

By the time Arranha quit, the low end of the gorge had a pile of broken rock chockablock in its neck, and the little stream had already backed up into a muddy pond.

Once when we had to attend a meeting outside the offices, Penny had led me on what she called a short cut though the Archives-miles on miles of endless files, each one chockablock with microfilm and all of them with moving belts scooting past them so that a clerk would not take all day to fetch one file.

The small tent was packed chockablock already, except at its far end, where hung a drab piece of spare canvas for a curtain.

Its many tables were all chockablock with men, and a few women, convivially drinking, loudly talking and laughing.

The graveyards are chockablock with murder victims and us dim sods are too thick to see it.

The room numbers made little sense and the building was chockablock with culs-de-sac and dead ends.

Loose-leaf sheaves were piled high on any flat surface that would hold them, or posted chockablock on bulletin boards.

Once when we had to attend a meeting outside the offices, Penny had led me on what she called a short cut though the Archives-miles on miles of endless ifies, each one chockablock with microfilm and all of them with moving belts scooting past them so that a clerk would not take all day to fetch one ifie.

Ninomiya is on a bluff in the middle of a town, and the beach below it is a narrow strip of sand chockablock with giant concrete tetrapods, looking like vastly magnified skeletons of plankton and intended to keep waves from washing up onto the busy coastal highway that runs between the beach and the station.