How to Use backlog in a Sentence

backlog

noun

• We have a huge backlog of orders to be filled.
• But the backlog won’t clear overnight.
  — Aman Ghei, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
• Last year, the backlog was just over three times revenue.
  — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
• Since then, the backlog of victims has only grown, as have wait times.
  — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 24 June 2026
• Overall progress clearing the backlog has been slow but steady.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• That backlog only grows as work is delayed.
  — AFAR Media, 23 Oct. 2025
• Supply chains have cleared their backlogs, helping tame prices for all kinds of goods.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Even when those two years were over, the agency had to sort through a backlog of cases.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2026
• Route risk signals into backlog, not slide decks.
  — Jagbir Kaur, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• How big is the backlog in the Strait of Hormuz?
  — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 11 May 2026
• Most agencies have large backlogs of such requests.
  — Byron Tau, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
• Both can be built faster than gas plants, which face years-long delays from turbine backlogs.
  — Suhail Bhat, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
• People wait to file their claims and face a backlog of applicants.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2026
• But that could take years amid an ever-growing backlog of cases.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
• This will prevent a backlog of pizzas waiting to be baked.
  — Kylie Petty, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2026
• While Boston doesn’t have a backlog of untested kits, the state does.
  — Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• That reform didn't happen, and the backlog has gotten even longer.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
• Feed these insights into the backlog.
  — Ranganath Taware, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Police have been delayed in part due to a backlog inside their forensics lab.
  — Catherine Rentz, ProPublica, 21 Sep. 2023
• Anyone who doesn’t have a backlog of references about disco should avoid it at all costs.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2026
• Tennessee is not alone in this backlog problem.
  — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Sep. 2025
• That, too, contributes to the backlog, the spokesperson said.
  — Rachel Becker, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2026
• Maintenance backlogs meant the aircraft could sit untouched for years if left in place.
  — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
• Flagging a concern meant delays, which meant backlogs.
  — Tiffany Archer, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
• But the agency still hasn’t released them, citing a backlog of requests.
  — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
• The scale of the backlog is significant.
  — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 17 June 2026
• The backlog is so deep, the average asylum case now takes between four and five years to complete.
  — Lee Cowan, CBS News, 14 May 2023
• The department did not respond to questions about its backlog.
  — Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 17 June 2026
• The piece has room for all of my clutter, a backlog of refills, and my hefty fragrance collection.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
• The office already had a backlog, which has now grown to about twenty-five thousand cases.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026