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    Use "clog" in a sentence

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    1. bad as attaching to negatives; they both clog up the system


    2. It is a clog which, for the supposed benefit of some particular countries, embarrasses the pleasures and encumbers the industry of all other countries, but of the colonies more than of any other


    3. Generic mineral makeup often uses talc as a filler ingredient, which can clog pores


    4. A problem was that the filters would clog up and had to be changed now and then


    5. There were stories of the children trashing homes and putting rolls of toilet paper down the toilet bowl to clog it


    6. “Yeah, but this time there was something else in the clog


    7. threatening to clog up her bathroom drain with my hair


    8. their Sprug power to clog up Lilliput"s economy with


    9. The only way to stop this rock monster was to clog up its mouth so that it would stop burping up little rock monsters


    10. This is because, scalp residue can actually clog the hair follicle, which can interfere with the normal growth rate of your hair

    11. Such items usually do not contain substances that can clog up your pores and cause pimples


    12. Because it lowers cholesterol (which can clog up the brain!), provides Omega-3s while balancing out Omega 6s, and infuses the body with antioxidants and Vitamin E, olive oil should form one of the cornerstones of a brain-friendly diet


    13. Elevated levels of LDL can clog


    14. If we do not cover many more Americans then many will enter and clog up our Emergency rooms and doctor offices with no means to pay for things


    15. which will ultimately clog your heart minimizing blood flow to the rest


    16. Some of these preservatives can clog up your heart, can lead to


    17. online that it's best to go there rather than I clog up this ebook which contains other


    18. consuming a lot of saturated fats that clog arteries


    19. The fat will clog arteries which can


    20. Her reasoning, which I find eminently sound, was that such a massive movement of forces would take days and would basically clog all the available roads and railway tracks with military convoys from Northwest France

    21. Even some evergreens, especially the kind with needles, can get leaves into the pool and possible clog the filters


    22. ing to clear it of the thoughts that were trying to clog it full before look-


    23. to clog pores and the


    24. Elevated levels of LDL can clog arteries and cause heart disease


    25. The pipe they cautioned should not be too steep or the liquids would go faster than the solids which would then clog the pipe


    26. and the cheese is starting to clog your throat


    27. • Rinse the razor every couple of strokes as it will clog easily


    28. She gazed for a moment at the clog of carriages, and


    29. nobler heathen, it is conceived of, as for some, a state of happiness-the clog of the body being shaken off-this yields


    30. heathen, it is conceived of, as for some, a state of happiness-the clog of the body being shaken off-this

    31. nobler heathen, it is conceived of, as for some, a state of happiness-the clog


    32. clog of the body being shaken off-this yields the idea, which has passed into so much of our modern thinking, of an


    33. Cami felt her throat clog with hot tears as she thought about her commitment to assist with fundraising or even paying for some of the expenses herself


    34. cruising among some of the magnificent islands that clog the seaways of the Great Barrier


    35. If, on the other hand, as in the hope of immortality among the nobler heathen, it is conceived of, as for some, a state of happiness-the clog of the body being shaken off-this yields the idea, which has passed into so much of our modern thinking, of an 'immortality of the soul,' of an imperishableness of the spiritual part, sometimes supposed to extend backward as well as forward; an inherent indestructibility


    36. The toxins released in cigarette smoke can clog pores and promote bacterial growth in pores, all of which contributes to adult acne


    37. It's these fatty acids that help control the production of androgens ? the hormones that surge during the teen-age times, which causes excess sebum oil to clog your hair follicle and contribute to creating your acne


    38. Use lemon as an exfoliate treatment to remove dead skin cells that clog the pours


    39. Blackheads ? those little black dots that clog up your pores ? can happen to anyone, and can sometimes stubbornly linger long after your acne has cleared up


    40. This will remove dead skin cells and oils that clog the pores

    41. An experience with LSD can clog the brain with sensory information


    42. He, with lordly dignity, has shaken of a clog; and the allowing her food and raiment, is thought sufficient to secure his reputation from taint


    43. As limousines clog the city streets, California socialite and longtime Nancy Reagan confidante Betsy Bloomingdale actually gets out of her stretch limo to direct traffic at Dupont Circle


    44. The minister might stand there, if it so pleased him, until morning should redden in the east, without other risk than that the dank and chill night-air would creep into his frame, and stiffen his joints with rheumatism, and clog his throat with catarrh and cough; thereby defrauding the expectant audience of to-morrow's prayer and sermon


    45. Me: “This is obviously a clog


    46. The morning commuter traffic is beginning to clog the roads


    47. I was moved to a yearning for delay which seemed to paralyze my faculties and to clog my very soul


    48. “Hope that wire don’t clog the rings,” said Al


    49. But grant for a moment, for mere argument's sake, that in Canada you touched the sinews of her strength, instead of removing a clog upon her resources—an encumbrance, but one, which, from a spirit of honor, she will vigorously defend


    1. ‘Oh, it was only a case of unscrewing the U bend and cleaning it out, Nick, those things get really clogged up with gunk sometimes


    2. I lay like a living corpse, unable to wipe away the sweat and the dust that clogged my eyes


    3. The truck would idle for a moment, waiting for traffic to clear or for lights to change, and as the truck moved off I spat oaths of vengeance in my head, while I fought for breath through my clogged nose


    4. Later that same night, in the small hours of Christmas Day, I lay on my mattress, nursing the mother of all headaches and feeling every breath burn through my clogged and battered nose and ribs


    5. It is a particular hate of mine that the sugar should get damp and clogged


    6. Her hair, clogged with the claggy stuff, stuck to her head; it felt cold and stiff, like a helmet


    7. The number of detentions clogged up


    8. The pile of fallen bitten nearly clogged Hell’s Gate


    9. would they understand? My head was clogged


    10. My one and only appointed mission is to help those who are lost try to clear their minds of the old grease that has clogged up their thought processes so that they can someday finally stop suffering a fate which plagues the majority of our species

    11. I am Wendy the Way, and as I said, my one and only appointed mission is to help those who are lost to clear their minds of that thick, layered, stubborn grease that has clogged their thought processes


    12. “Can’t you see I’m dying?” Apparently, he couldn’t, because Ozzie continued to relentlessly scratch at my inert form, making all kinds of loud cat noises into my overly sensitive but clogged ears


    13. An intimidating overload of problems clogged her mind


    14. The taste of coppery blood was in his mouth, his throat was clogged with stinking socks


    15. No longer the thick sand that clogged my blood, now my heart pulled me in new directions


    16. It can cause the body to exercise, but if it does not exercise itself, pathways can become clogged (Beta-amyloid?) and function diminishes (dementia?)


    17. She considered bolting, but the passage behind her was clogged with more people who had come to join the crowd


    18. The streets were clogged with cars as the mass evacuation of Tomioka town got


    19. engines had already shut down, it’s oxygen intakes clogged with the


    20. clogged the engines of the great trucks that had once delivered the

    21. Spiders, wasps, and mice floated on top, and scum clogged the skimmer


    22. already clogged with the war chariots and other large military hardware


    23. It offensive scent clogged my sensitive nose as invasive thoughts of doom racked my mind


    24. Half way through the interminable thing he shouted, “There! Did you hear it? They’ve skipped a note!” My ears were obviously clogged


    25. Streets so clogged with years of rubbish there was only room to walk single file through the waist high stench


    26. The interstate’s clogged with traffic from people trying to escape the unknown terror


    27. Khaki pants were rolled up twice and clogged at the hemline with dried mud


    28. A loop of the old river had been cut off as the water sought a more direct downhill route, and the water trapped in that loop was now clogged with what looked from afar like cattails and reeds


    29. Clogged burners are inefficient


    30. He was numb and he still felt Marie’s sadness but his own head was clogged with emotions and he was lost

    31. “Thank you,” Angela said with a clogged throat


    32. clogged memories or may not even remember the assault


    33. A short time later they sent Father Augusto Angel, a crusader of the new breed, intransigent, audacious, daring, who personally rang the bells several times a day so that the peoples spirits would not get drowsy, and who went from house to house waking up the sleepers to go to mass but before a year was out he too was conquered by the negligence that one breathed in with the air, by the hot dust that made everything old and clogged up, and by the drowsiness caused by lunchtime meatballs in the unbearable heat of siesta time


    34. The main thing to remember about filters is that they can become very dirty and get clogged up,


    35. Judicial Observations/Solutions The justice system in America is clogged with money seekers (attorneys) who earn more per case generally when cases are handled slowly


    36. The propulsion system was completely clogged by the crushed flesh of the fish


    37. dropping between the boulders, made a curtain of aerial roots, clogged and etched with


    38. She slowed and stopped, asleep, her nose clogged


    39. Tank engines wore out quickly and thick dust clogged the air filters


    40. They look a bit clogged up at the moment

    41. tea, it unblocks the chakras you know, and yours seem a bit clogged


    42. the Memorial Chapel parking lot is clogged with bumper to bumper


    43. fat will cause clogged arteries and a probable heart attack or stroke


    44. Having to use roads and rail lines in order to move as fast as possible, the German columns had quickly clogged all the roads in Northwest France and had monopolized the railway trains, which had become in turn targets for Ingrid’s aircraft


    45. By that time, the telephone lines at the Pentagon had started to be clogged with calls from reporters based in Los Angeles and who had spoken with the crew and passengers of Pan Am 502


    46. Knowing that the fan was about to become clogged, he fled the USA, initially for Hong Kong; when things became uncomfortable there, he left Hong Kong and flew to Moscow, from where he sought asylum in a number of countries


    47. Everyone immediately backed out of the movie since they probably hadn’t felt that much panic since the last time they clogged the toilet at someone else’s house, and unless I found an additional 16 people to replace all of those who’s jobs were threatened, this movie had to completely start over


    48. Homer’s engine was clogged with gritty sand


    49. the layers of wallpaper and linoleum that clogged the walls and floors of the old


    50. The sinks were brutally clogged with soggy, half-eaten food











































    1. Someone was clogging up the toilets in the third floor


    2. Half of the travelers were on the ground, twitching, green spots growing on their flesh from where they were struck, their veins clogging then bursting through their skin while their lifeblood pooled around them, thick and dark


    3. An engine left running on idle over a long period of time then would develop carbon clogging that at some stage would begin to interfere with performance in the median range where it was set for average efficiency and performance, something akin to cholesterol buildup in the body


    4. The greater the performance required the greater the fuel quantity expended to overcome the partial clogging


    5. This keeps your grill from filling up with ash and clogging the jets


    6. But the gun tips required changing often today—not due to clogging, she suspected, but because they were worn and needed to be replaced—so her rate slowed


    7. It’s a similar principle to what happens if you have dirt clogging your water filter


    8. was blamed not only for Israel, but also for water hyacinths clogging Nile cataracts, and every other disaster, war, coup and atrocity in the Middle East, as well as Viet Nam


    9. In fifty years there will be ten billion worthless human beings clogging up this planet of yours like cancer cells in a lung


    10. MACHINE, DISH WASHER, KETTLE AND HOT WATER TANK) FROM CLOGGING UP WITH LIME SCALE

    11. meats that are high in saturated fat are clogging your


    12. They want to live a long and prosperous life but are clogging their arteries and veins with bad chemicals that will kill them in some way in the future


    13. high in saturated fat are clogging your heart


    14. The poor radio discipline of the male pilots, who kept shouting excitedly on the radio for about any reason, kept clogging the fighter control radio frequency during the battle and nearly attracted a remonstrance from Ingrid, who however decided to let it fly in order not to sour the already shaky relation between her female pilots and the male pilots on Guadalcanal


    15. clogging to the physiology


    16. The latter’s office was a command centre with charts and whiteboards clogging the walls


    17. to wash out nozzles to keep them clear of clogging


    18. The Earth sees its virtual blood money clogging and coagulating in giant, ever-expanding, stagnating pools that do not flow openly or at all to many and most of its blood money carrying hosts, e


    19. This crisis of imergence clogging the flows of Eartheart's natural systems trigger her immune responses: expulsions of volcanic ash reducing planes in air, travel on ground, shutting down businesses reducing the destruction of her lungs; earthquakes tectonically shocking electrical grids offline reducing her EM poisoning; cycles of storms blowing rain and sand, enema cleansing and anti-organic scouring, with a single hurricane, blight or swarm eliminating the monocultural food systems that feed the mass that is consuming her


    20. the middle of the city, with traffic fumes clogging up

    21. Meat decays in the stomach for a longer time; as well it is the cause for clogging arteries in the penis, responsible for a successful erection


    22. purchase troubled assets that are clogging the financial system


    23. This will be safer for you and it will keep the filter from clogging up with the debris you pull


    24. Dust was clogging his nostrils causing him some annoyance and he looked around at the unrevealing walls


    25. This will avoid blunting and clogging the razor too quickly


    26. The sudden tears clogging my throat surprise me


    27. ready clogging the sidewalks and turned east on 8th


    28. still clogging the streets at this late hour


    29. These secretions combine with bacteria and other contaminants, clogging the pores and setting the stage for an acne outbreak


    30. In this way, they are prevented from clogging which can lead to heart attack and stroke

    31. When this clogging or obstruction of the artery


    32. Then she went across ploughed fields, in which she sank, stumbling; and clogging her thin shoes


    33. Traffic was clogging the streets as commuters filled the Peachtree Center complex, which was comprised of fourteen different buildings that housed everything from corporate offices to several shopping areas


    34. By those best acquainted with his habits, the paleness of the young minister's cheek was accounted for by his too earnest devotion to study, his scrupulous fulfilment of parochial duty, and, more than all, by the fasts and vigils of which he made a frequent practice, in order to keep the grossness of this earthly state from clogging and obscuring his spiritual lamp


    35. They sleep in a once stately Old World suite with the furniture shored up against the walls and chicken feathers clogging the marble sinks and newspapers tacked clumsily across the windows


    36. and acres of chimneys standing blackly above ashes, piles of half-burned rubbish and He could not tell them what the army saw when it marched back into Atlanta, the acres tumbled heaps of brick clogging the streets, old trees dying from fire, their charred limbs tumbling to the ground in the cold wind


    37. Inside, a party was under way, people Charlie didn’t recognize shuffling like vagabonds from parlor to kitchen and clogging the stairs and hallways


    38. Weren’t rehearsal dinners restricted to family? Half of New York seemed to be here, stepping from the backseats of cars, clogging the entrance, as if it were one of Felicia’s awful beach retreats


    39. For where earlier it was the protest clogging traffic around them, now it’s the blue lights of the Furies shoving everything else aside


    40. The more she highlighted, the more her head became packed with pink, woolly sugar, clogging and muffling the circuits in her brain that were needed to understand and remember what she was reading

    41. Casaubon had been slow and hesitating, oppressed in the plan of transmitting his work, as he had been in executing it, by the sense of moving heavily in a dim and clogging medium: distrust of Dorothea's competence to arrange what he had prepared was subdued only by distrust of any other redactor


    42. Brooke's propitiation was more clogging to his tongue than Mr


    43. Tremendous surges of random data are clogging her electronics


    44. The company was developing a treatment for angina (the painful heart condition caused by constricting or clogging of heart arteries), when the users of this drug began to report that it improved their ability to have erections


    45. David Smith (USA): responsible for releasing the “Melissa” virus into the wild in 1999, clogging and shutting down email systems; arrested a week later and sentenced to 10 years


    1. wear clogs in the snow and, as a consequence of this, her feet were


    2. they were, nonetheless, better than clogs


    3. Chocolate would have been nicer but it is lousy for singing, as it clogs up the vocal chords and I need to hit some pretty demanding top notes


    4. “Best porridge I’ve ever tasted, ever you are camp cook in future, I’ll volunteer Lemoss and Clogs for the washing up after in future”, Fizzicist licked up the last of the food, wiped his fingers on his britches and handed the bowl to Flitter


    5. “So apparently Hilier was wearing water-proofed, insulated, lugged-sole assault clogs, like any candy-ass TV wildlife biologist should


    6. cholesterol that clogs arteries and causes instances of heart arrhythmia, heart attacks,


    7. Fat clogs up the arteries with cholesterol


    8. The mind clogs you up with images and


    9. Clever Clogs Productions, have been working in Television


    10. logic, for, not only is it useless, it clogs up the mind with circular arguments that end where they begin

    11.  Allergies that cause clogs in the air paths


    12. Yet still, the cranks and clogs of my mind must have been set on overload that dreary Wednesday afternoon, for after a little times distance I scarcely heard the sound of what could only be described as the rapping and clapping of hoofs in the upper chambers


    13. in the clopping of clogs, in the banging


    14. It greased the wheels no end when Alex Clegg finally popped his clogs and hurried things along nicely


    15. clogs the pore and eventually initiates infection


    16. This plaque clogs arteries, causing heart disease


    17. of prisoners loaded with chains, pinioned by wooden clogs, and in


    18. Next she chopped several wooden clogs and


    19. she did not know was, hidden among the tall grasses were rows of wooden clogs!


    20. 9) They said that suddenly, the sheikh Al-Jaylani sent out a thunderous cry and threw his clogs high into the air

    21. The brigands approached us, returning our money to us, and we found their two leaders dead, each with one of the clogs near to him


    22. Especially the red meat variety, rich in cholesterol, in time it clogs the arteries responsible for engorging the penis with blood flow, leading to sexual dysfunction


    23.  suffocates skin, traps toxins in the body, and clogs pores


    24. Margarine (vegetable shortening, hydrogenated oils) is not really edible and ends up in the blood stream where it clogs arteries and contributes to heart attacks


    25. Others, astride the wall, swung their legs, kicking with their clogs the large nettles growing between the little enclosure and the newest graves


    26. On her feet she wore heavy wooden clogs, and from her hips hung a large blue apron


    27. Suddenly on the pavement was heard a loud noise of clogs and the clattering of a stick; and a voice rose—a raucous voice—that sang—


    28. Someone has been feeding him, and the spoon rests on the glass table and blobs of porridge cling to Frederick’s whiskers and his place mat, which is a woolen thing featuring happy pink-cheeked children in clogs


    29. IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND! IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND


    30. Men were so attuned to the Bird’s presence that they instantly recognized the clopping sound his clogs made in the sand

    31. The good-looking young woman in clogs, swinging the empty pails on the yoke, ran on before him


    32. ‘Father Finogen wants some tar,’ said the young woman in the clogs, coming in


    33. with their clogs the large nettles growing between the little enclosure and the newest graves


    34. Suddenly on the pavement was heard a loud noise of clogs and the


    35. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where centres of labor should exist


    36. "All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, fear everywhere; counter-shocks in every town


    37. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight


    38. The good-looking young woman in clogs, swinging the empty pails on the yoke, ran on before him to the well for water


    39. "Father Finogen wants some tar," said the young woman in the clogs, coming in


    40. In all the country between the Potomac and the Hudson the interest of commerce is so great, in proportion to the other interests, that its embarrassment clogs and weakens the energy of every other description of industry

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    Synonyms for "clog"

    clog clog dance clog dancing geta patten sabot overload clot constipate back up choke choke off clog up congest foul plug obstruct cram stuff crowd

    "clog" definitions

    footwear usually with wooden soles


    any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction


    a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps


    become or cause to become obstructed


    dance a clog dance


    impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden


    impede with a clog or as if with a clog


    coalesce or unite in a mass


    fill to excess so that function is impaired