[
UK
/klˈɒɡɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈkɫɑɡɪŋ, ˈkɫɔɡɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫɑɡɪŋ, ˈkɫɔɡɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
preventing movement
the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street
How To Use clogging In A Sentence
- A number of people contacted the paper to claim that flu cases were clogging doctors' surgeries and forcing schools to appoint supply teachers in place of ailing staff.
- At the outset, a solution to Bangalore's clogging drains can't be that simplistic.
- When we eat a hamburger, two million others are clogging their arteries with similar gusto. Times, Sunday Times
- The benefit of this hybrid form for the writer is that it frees up the texture of the book, avoiding the build-up of clogging documentation, and allows him to hurry over or emphasise themes at will. A Man of Parts by David Lodge – review
- Be prepared to fish in hostile conditions of rain, sleet and snow with a chill wind biting your flesh, and with weed clogging your line.
- When it comes to gauging the temperature, frozen blocks of ice clogging up your rod rings are as crystal clear an indicator as anyone could wish for.
- The injection of constant low levels of phosphonic acid may solve iron clogging problems. Food and Farm News
- I have named these sounds "taps," and it is the various combinations of these sounds that are used so effectively in musical comedy dances, in tap, step, and American specialty dancing (sometimes called clogging), as well as in some of our choicest acrobatic dancing. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession
- The foetor of decay hung over the town, clogging her throat like putrid dust. The Silicon Mage
- At the joints he diminished the flesh in order not to impede the flexure of the limbs, and also to avoid clogging the perceptions of the mind. Timaeus