How to Use bog down in a Sentence

bog down

verb
  • Few things bog down the work day quite like the midday slump.
    — Hunter Boyce, AJC.com, 11 Feb. 2026
  • But early signs of progress at the talks seemed to bog down in the tropical heat.
    — Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
  • When things bog down, who helps Cunningham?
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The pot’s lid also doubles as a pasta strainer, so there’s no need to bog down your trunk with a colander.
    — Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The real miracle here is that none of this heavy lifting does much to bog down the proceedings.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2025
  • But even the best of those algorithms can bog down a powerful computer.
    — Peter McMahon, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2018
  • Perfection Sometimes, the need for perfection bogs down the process.
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 25 Feb. 2026
  • More chromosomes can bog down cell division, introducing more opportunity for errors and mutations.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 19 May 2026
  • When security friction, manual approvals or redundant requests bog down a team, their capacity to operate at their full potential is reduced.
    — Fran Rosch, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Differing regulations around the country can also bog down expansion plans, Waymo’s experience shows.
    — Chris Kirkham, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
  • On the entertainment side, WBD employees fear there may be too many proverbial cooks in the kitchen, which could bog down creativity and innovation for both film and TV.
    — Alex Sherman,lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
  • This reduction in admin access makes sense for safety, but reducing admin rights to MSP and IT professionals in the past has had the tendency to over-complicate security measures and bog down daily workflows.
    — Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 8 June 2026
  • My research—co-authored with colleagues from Stanford University, Microsoft, GitHub, and the Linux Foundation—has shown that generative AI excels at absorbing the administrative tasks that bog down employees, freeing them to concentrate on the creative and complex work that truly moves the needle.
    — Frank Nagle, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025

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