Illustration: In a small apartment, a resident braces one hand against a bookcase while trying to slide a very thin booklet into a shelf already packed with books. Every volume presses against its neighbors, and the row reaches both side panels without an open gap.

ぎっしり

gisshiri

tightly packed

Example sentences

彼かれは棚たなに本ほんをぎっしり詰つめ込こんだ。
He crowded the books into the shelves.
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引ひき出だしはがらくたでぎっしり詰つまっている。
The drawer is stuffed full of odds and ends.
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街道かいどうを挟はさんで両側りょうがわに家々いえいえがぎっしり建たち、谷間たにまを埋うめていた。
The valley was filled with lots of houses closely built on the both sides of the road.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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