Instead of backed-up traffic, there were small convoys of trucks, some accompanied by tanks, some quite alone.

The backed-up traffic was then able to move on through the area of the accident.

Coming back, however, promised to be a different proposition, judging by the line of backed-up traffic waiting to be searched for drugs on the U.S. side.

Valuable seconds were spent struggling over and through the hay until he was hurrying through the backed-up traffic to the other end of the bridge.

But Ms. Zamist's location had been rejected because of worries about backed-up traffic involving buses and hospital vehicles.

He eyed the backed-up traffic impatiently.

Barbie Fogg had so far avoided the backed-up traffic caused by the masses headed to the racetrack.

Trucks and buses should not be allowed to use the crossings at all, unless a crossing meets higher standards for visibility and there is little chance that backed-up traffic might prevent movement.

But the man seemed hurried by, of all things, backed-up traffic that had been caused by the drama on the span.

But it quickly became apparent that because of the complex nature of the roads that feed into downtown Boston, it would take hours to clear the backed-up traffic.