Example Sentences

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According to CBP, heightened general security had bogged down processing at the border.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2020

But ABC News reported that the White House was concerned the speech would anger Pyongyang at a time when lower-level talks had bogged down.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2019

Perhaps most crucially, they circumvented the bureaucracy and corruption that had bogged down other police reform efforts.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2018

Kerry strongly rejected the idea that progress had bogged down.

From Reuters • Jan. 28, 2010

The same thorough mosquito-control measures were instituted in the Isthmus of Panama, where work to dig a canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans had bogged down.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy