How to Use bottleneck in a Sentence

bottleneck

1 of 2 noun

• All decisions must be approved by the committee, and this is where the company runs into bottlenecks.
• Bridge construction has created a bottleneck on the southern part of Main Street.
• This freight bottleneck is a thing of the past.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2026
• The model is the bottleneck on what an agent can do.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• Your test suite is the bottleneck many teams have not noticed yet.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• The bottleneck is knowing what to build.
  — Jehan Hamedi, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• But that data is a bottleneck, right?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Apr. 2026
• The problem is that there's a bit of a bottleneck to be overcome.
  — David Szondy march 22, New Atlas, 22 Mar. 2026
• To put it plainly, your people are not the bottleneck.
  — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• Business buyers want to see a team, not a bottleneck.
  — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• So that’s probably going to be a bottleneck on your trip to and fro.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• But the process of moving them may prove to be a bottleneck as qubit counts continue to ramp up.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
• For businesses that want to move fast, the old way can become a bottleneck.
  — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 29 June 2026
• In many teams, the bottleneck is not strategy.
  — Oleg Malii, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
• At a larger scale, this becomes a bottleneck.
  — Sameer Gulati, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
• The oil bottleneck has driven up the price of crude, straining the state's supply chain.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 6 May 2026
• The tools crossed the threshold two years ago, and the bottleneck now is a decision — not a roadmap.
  — Vinay Bhaskara, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• Still, an abundance of people cheering can cause a bottleneck of crowds.
  — Anthony Solorzano, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
• The bottleneck was never scalpels.
  — Nicole Fraenkel, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
• But the better return is often found in the bottleneck.
  — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 21 May 2026
• That shift removes one of the biggest bottlenecks in space research.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
• The bottleneck is finding deals.
  — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 11 Mar. 2026
• The bottleneck was never the car itself.
  — Yuri Gubin, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• The bottleneck is no longer building software.
  — Krish Ramineni, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• But the law has spurred a bottleneck for affordable housing.
  — ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026
• But the law has spurred a bottleneck for affordable housing.
  — Charlotte Kramon, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
• The species has gone through this huge bottleneck and through that lost a lot of genetic variation.
  — Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2022
• Leaders should map the real flow of work and remove the human bottlenecks first.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• The bottleneck is being able to keep enough assets in the air on patrol at any one time in case they are needed.
  — New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2026
• Rivera and Piña say there’s a big bottleneck in the lower and upper levels.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023

bottleneck

2 of 2 verb

• The ice cream shop has also bottlenecked, and the gift shop is getting its peak sales of the day.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 3 July 2026
• Without this shift, every tool gets bottlenecked at the same handoff.
  — Asad Khan, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• The crowd bottlenecks as picketers wait for a crossing signal.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• All that supply routes through not nearly enough brokers, and deals can bottleneck as a result.
  — Dylan Gans, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• Early this year, the Cursor team said its future growth was bottlenecked on compute.
  — Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 16 June 2026
• It’s been argued that being bottlenecked by code generation was a good thing.
  — Scott Breitenother, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• Execution can get bottlenecked as a result because the work that needs to be done requires people to do it.
  — Zak Ali, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• Now, more than one hundred and twelve thousand asylum-seekers are bottlenecked in Greece, more than one third of their number on the islands.
  — Patrick Strickland, The New York Review of Books, 4 Mar. 2020
• In reality, control erodes faster when everything bottlenecks at the top.
  — Abdo Riani, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• The dinner crowd shuttled into the venue and bottlenecked at the bar, appropriately.
  — Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
• That’s expected, as most triple-A games are heavily bottlenecked by the graphics card rather than the processor.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 16 Mar. 2020
• The real-world difference is how snappy everything feels when your storage doesn’t bottleneck your system.
  — Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
• Geller and his son, Mason, were among the families caught in the chaos, bottlenecked on Palisades Drive as the fire crept closer.
  — Gio Insignares, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
• This 1892 creation is one of the great, great, great grandpas of bottlenecked, centerfire rifle cartridges.
  — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2020
• After many years, the dearth of reproductive females would bottleneck the population.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
• Eventually, only a pair of doors were opened, causing concertgoers to bottleneck.
  — Fox News, 13 Nov. 2021
• Instead, importers are looking to sunny Spain and North Africa, driving up prices and bottlenecking the supply chain.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 24 Feb. 2023
• Contributing to this efficiency was the fact that bottlenecked lines to board the escalator were roughly a third as long when standers didn’t have to wait for their turn on one half of the escalator.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• Yet, sparse computations on the CPU are often bottlenecked by the indirect lookups used to find nonzero data.
  — Olivia Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2026
• This can bottleneck team execution by causing arguments, or if everyone goes with the hero’s opinion, the whole team could miss out on better, more creative solutions.
  — Mark Samuel, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• However, the other lesson is not to bottleneck your business by doing everything yourself forever.
  — Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• Cohen watched as four pickup trucks filled with armed militants and gunmen on motorcycles encircled the road leading out of the event venue, which was bottlenecked with cars attempting to flee the area.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2023
• As a result, the park’s conservation team is working to build new routes and visitor centers to better disperse travelers that currently bottleneck the site.
  — Julia Eskins, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2021
• That’s because, while the hype might seem to suggest that robotics is poised for a major expansion, some avenues of progress are bottlenecked by a lack of useful data for training robots for complex tasks.
  — ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
• That methodological choice drives very different conclusions about whether the labor market is moving freely or quietly rerouting in ways that will bottleneck further ahead.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 May 2026
• Conversely, the destination disk and the interface might be newer and able to write data faster than the source sending it; that’s where data can bottleneck and potentially cause problems.
  — Eric Alt, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2021
• As long as the production of product keeps pace with demand, in other words, there’s no reason to believe any part of Winter’s Edge’s operations would bottleneck at scale.
  — Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 1 Jan. 2021
• Without investment in clean, high-density energy grids and smarter distribution, innovation will bottleneck at the plug.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• Trump added that oil exports from Iran could once again be bottlenecked at the Strait of Hormuz if the United States renews military strikes on Iran.
  — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 19 June 2026
• Since Iran closed the strait in late February following the outbreak of hostilities, tankers have bottlenecked across the region as the vital oil chokepoint remains largely shut.
  — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2026