cloggy
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Further, he is a master of the difficult art of differentiating quoted passages from the general narrative without sounding cloggy.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021
Will postpone description of house till another occasion; under this cloud one's ink gets cloggy and one's pen listless.
From Woman's Endurance by A. D (August D.) Luckhoff
"There now," she said presently, "draw yer cheer up and 'ave some tay; 't 'll be better than cloggy stuff like milk on a 'ot day like this."
From The Man Who Rose Again by Joseph Hocking
I have the queer, faint, pit-water smell of it in my nostrils now as I write, and my fingers have subconscious memories of the soft, "cloggy" feel of the long-damp pages.
From The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
The ground should be completely inverted, but never do it in wet weather, as this will make the ground hard and cloggy.
From The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines by George Husmann
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