How to Use bog down in a Sentence

bog down

phrasal verb

• But flashbacks of a man who knew the bomber as a young man and now walks the streets tend to bog down the story.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2025
• The combination of friction and the build up of wood chips can bog down the best of drills.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2023
• Quick starts require deliberate slipping of the clutch, or the engine bogs down.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 17 July 2023
• Will timelines bog down when thousands of property owners try to submit plans at the same time?
  — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
• All the non-reading things that have a tendency to bog down like scrolling through your library or loading the Kindle Store is super smooth.
  — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 19 Nov. 2024
• That would cause public confidence in them to tank, which could bog down on-site solar and renewables ramp-up.
  — Jon M. Williams, New York Daily News, 26 May 2024
• Both Droste and Story said the disruptions bog down city processes.
  — Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
• Supporters in France hope that the bill can be made a law by 2027, but critics hope there is still time to bog down the bill between chambers and chip away at the MPs who voted for it.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2025
• Everything bogs down and the Irish offense sputters with a few three and outs, and everyone on the outside will fret about him, his playbook, the future.
  — Tom Noie, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• Don’t Expect Perfection Sometimes, the need for perfection bogs down the process.
  — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2024
• Dry-aged duck breast is, again, beautifully cooked, but heavy potato rosti that tastes just like latkes and squash blossoms stuffed with bland zucchini bog down the dish.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
• Payers, with their size and control over financial resources, can easily dictate terms and bog down providers with red tape.
  — Chandler Barron, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
• The movie bogs down, alas, during almost every stretch in between – especially when the humans take center stage.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 8 June 2023
• Should Hamas continue to bog down the Israeli military, its support among the Palestinian people could rise.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2023
• Early on, against Kentucky and Kansas, the offense would bog down a bit because Flagg was still learning how to separate from his man, how to read defenses and how to play through contact.
  — Sam Vecenie, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
• This culture gap erodes experimentation, stifles agility and bogs down teams in red tape.
  — Andrea Ruskin, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
• There are also disputed questions about key testimony and evidence that could further bog down the case.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Nov. 2024
• That confidence begins with a tight screenplay devoid of the exposition and explanations that so often bog down crime thrillers.
  — Scott Phillips, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• Trump has launched at least a dozen attempts to bog down what’s expected to be his first criminal trial of four — and the only one, so far, scheduled to take place before the November presidential election.
  — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2024
• Many urban invasions — from the Middle Ages to modernity — have started off with a rapid advance, only to later bog down in districts that favor defenders.
  — Damien Cave, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• This is a compounding issue that bogs down far too many enterprise IT organizations.
  — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
• The ripple effects would spread globally as port congestion bogs down shipping capacity and drives up freight rates, analysts warn.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
• Yet a handful of moments exhaust with gratuitous zaniness, and unnecessary plots and gags eventually bog down the buzz.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 18 July 2023
• For example: One problem is the lack of convenient access to reference materials, which bogs down work during busy season.
  — Karla L. Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• This will prevent overtime games and discourage teams from fouling in late-clock situations, a technique that often bogs down traditional 5-on-5 games.
  — Julia Poe, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2025
• Knicks Film School's Rit Holtzman also notes that more accurate tip-off times, play reviews (which often revolve around trivial fouls prior to the fourth quarters of games), free throw shooting policies, and timeouts often bog down games plenty.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
• While full automation isn’t possible for every part of the process, many of the tedious and repetitive steps that could otherwise bog down your work can be sufficiently automated.
  — John Hall, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
• Timberwolves coach Chris Finch would likely love to have another scoring option at his disposal to insert if things bog down offensively.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 11 July 2024
• Cellular networks sometimes bog down when people in one place all call, text, stream or post at once — like at a packed football game or, in this case, an opportunity to view a potentially once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
• This situation is not a stalemate, however, and won’t become a stalemate if the current Ukrainian push falls short of expectations or bogs down again after initial successes.
  — Karolina Hird, Time, 3 Aug. 2023