How to Use buggy in a Sentence

buggy

1 of 2 adjective
  • It's too buggy out here—let's go inside.
  • Two children and a pony pulling the buggy were killed in the crash.
    John Molseed, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025
  • We've been hurt before by bad and buggy software.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • This is a warhorse expected to pull a buggy around a cottage.
    Jesus R. Garcia, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Cobblestone in a carriage horse and buggy.
    Marley Gotterer, Them., 18 Sep. 2025
  • Dragging icons around to turn them into windows is still really buggy and hard to nail.
    Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 24 June 2019
  • Her grandfather told stories about driving a buggy for the man who enslaved him.
    Jeffrey Bennett, Time, 31 Mar. 2026
  • But bragging about enjoying a hard shell taco nowadays is like showing up to a street takeover in a horse buggy.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • People can whitewash buggy botspeak by giving it a human sheen in a retweet.
    Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 2 May 2018
  • Soon, the ocotillo forests of the desert will sprout green leaves, followed by the fiery red blossoms at the tips of their buggy whip-like branches.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Dylan then appears sitting next to Zac, as the pair are both shirtless, while riding in a golf buggy.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
  • That usually meant going to taverns and bars, and enduring long travel days by horse and buggy.
    Ayana Archie, NPR, 27 Sep. 2025
  • All six occupants of the buggy were thrown, including four children, police said.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Besides being buggy and incomplete, a project running swarms of agents for days or weeks is expensive.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • An old-fashioned, highly polished buggy is also available.
    Samantha Falewée, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The folk world saw itself as one of acoustic purity, but suddenly that idea was becoming the horse-and-buggy.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Made for hot, buggy environments, this Insect Shield hooded shirt keeps you cool and keeps the bugs away.
    Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Just over three miles long, the island is a place where roosters roam free, conch salad is sliced and diced right from the sea, and the best way to get around is by buggy (golf cart).
    Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But the system is also undeniably buggy, as most parents will attest.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 5 June 2024
  • That chair, however, wouldn’t be able to take a reporter on a spin down the road the same way the buggy did, jumping curbs with a throaty rumble from the exhaust.
    Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But the Bruins made those computerized rankings look buggy.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Outdoor venues can get buggy, too, so consider insect repellent.
    ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • In the next six months, the environment will get hotter, wetter and buggier, and the number of infections will rise.
    Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 19 Mar. 2016
  • Also, search boxes and comment fields in Microsoft 365 apps may be buggy too.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 14 June 2023
  • Raber was one of several women who provided rides to Amish people, taking them to places that a horse and buggy could not access.
    Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Raber was one of several women who provided rides to Amish people, taking them to places that a horse and buggy could not access.
    Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
  • According to the outlets, the local Amish use a horse and buggy to get around but will ride in vehicles for extended trips.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The buggy maker gave way to the auto industry and the auto mechanic, and society moved forward.
    Matt K. Lewis, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Rosie was also reportedly buggy, so people wondered how she was meant to help in high-emotion situations.
    Curbed, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The buggy was westbound on CR 388 when it was struck from behind by the SUV.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 11 Aug. 2025

buggy

2 of 2 noun
  • He rode into town on his horse and buggy.
  • The first cars looked like horse buggies.
    Aswin Saravanan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Step away from your camp site and hop on a buggy for another kind of wild ride.
    Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • However, there are golf buggies to zip guests around with ease.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The horse was not harmed, and the buggy was returned, police said.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Indeed, the time to have ditched the horse and buggy was 15 years ago.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The two rode dirt buggies through the sand and even met a camel, who gave the actress a kiss on the cheek.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The Amish do not drive cars and use horses and buggies to travel.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Sid Houpt also shot George, who died in a buggy at the scene.
    Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Golf buggies are no longer limited to eighteen holes of windy leisure.
    Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • In the end, my only sightings came while inside the buggy, not out on the street.
    Heather Greenwood Davis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
  • This site allowed visitors to come by train, car, buggy, or on foot.
    David Buie, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 22 Aug. 2021
  • That sounds appealing, but in practice it’s been buggy, at least for me.
    oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Staff in transport buggies are also on hand to transport guests around the estate.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The terrain is mostly flat, and there are plenty of electric buggies for whizzing around.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Also, the iOS version of the app was a little buggy in my use.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Each buggy also has a viewing platform on the back and the windows slide down for great video and photos.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Consider how the automobile meant the end of the horse and buggy.
    Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The group of cousins has a blast together, playing and riding little kid-sized buggies around.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The two were in the buggy with their eight children, who range from 9 months to 16 years old, Geller said.
    Sahar Akbarzai and Mirna Alsharif, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Arcade Paradise is, right now, quite buggy and in need of some refinement.
    Matt Gardner, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • On the way back, Almazrouei parks the buggy on a dune above the Liwa Nights camp.
    Barry Neild, CNN, 28 Sep. 2022
  • For me, that history is framed from the seat of Lou’s old buggy, on a wild ride pulled by make-believe horses.
    Helen Shriver Riley, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 Aug. 2021
  • In 1881, a summer kitchen was built and a barn was added for the minister's horse and buggy.
    Evan Casey, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2022
  • In the 19th century, the city’s fishermen flocked there by horse and buggy.
    New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Once there, e-bikes and golf buggies are available to get around, so a vehicle is not needed after arrival.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The buggy has also been equipped with a rear spoiler, a lightbar and huge off-road tires that give it plenty of attitude.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 May 2022
  • Plenty of apps promise to track this or that for us, and in practice, the processes are often buggy, or don’t work at all.
    Ebenezer Samuel, Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Workers have found the software that runs Meta’s VR platform too buggy.
    Mike Isaac, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • As deputy fire marshal, he was thrown from his buggy, run over by an engine, and died of his injuries in 1887.
    Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2022

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