VERB
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get stuck while doing something
She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation -
cause to get stuck as if in a mire
The mud mired our cart -
be unable to move further
The car bogged down in the sand -
cause to slow down or get stuck
The vote would bog down the house
How To Use bog down In A Sentence
- It tackled steep inclines, rocky surfaces, muddy tracks and sand dunes with aplomb and at no time did I feel it would bog down or fail to scale rocky obstacles.
- The idea that our home may be demolished is undeniably upsetting, but the even greater threat is the possibility that this process could bog down in an interminable morass of political and bureaucratic indecision, with no clear answers at all. Argh!
- Your car will bog down in the mud.
- But more seriously, I think times when a story begins to bog down and I feel "blocked" is most often due to something intrinsically wrong with the scene or character or point of view I'm working on. James Rollins discusses the truth behind The Map of Bones and also answers many questions relating to his life and work in general..
- Just when things bog down, she arrives on cue to perk it up.
- Your car will bog down in the mud.
- They bog down in the day-to-day administration of a small business and bemoan the lack of time to draw.
- The vote would bog down the house
- Even the most open, honest attempt to figure out who deserved to live where could bog down in dizzying complication. Prophet Without Honor
- How did the construction work bog down?