Examples of use of gum up
1. Alas, you gum up traffic every time you exit the gates in daylight.
2. Tactics included "trying to have meetings canceled ... to at least slow things down or gum up the works" or trying to conduct meetings on the subject without other key Cabinet members, one administration official said.
3. "But if you get any resistance from your future boss, the administrator, about this, you should let him know I‘m deeply concerned about this and willing to gum up the works a little bit until I get a clear response," he told the nominees.
4. "The Iranian uranium is contaminated with molybdenum and other heavy metals and that would tend to gum up the centrifuges and limit the degree of enrichment to far below the weapons grade level." To assess how close this takes the Iranians towards a nuclear reactor or potential bomb, he says we must know more about the centrifuges.
5. Friday December 2', 2006 3:01 AM AP Photo CODZ108, CODZ107 By CHASE SQUIRES Associated Press Writer DENVER (AP) – New Year‘s travelers jammed the Denver airport Thursday, trying to get out of town ahead of a snowstorm that threatened to close runways and gum up the nation‘s busy holiday travel season for the second time in a week.