Clog

//klɑɡ//

"Clog" in a Sentence (28 examples)

Always use distilled water in steam irons because using ordinary water will cause a mineral build-up over time that will clog the steam holes.

It's a simple sink clog.

I don't want my bathtub to clog, so I need to buy a strainer.

A sty or stye is commonly caused by staphlycoccus bacteria that along with dead skin cells clog glands in your eyelids, along the lash line.

Everyone's an atheist until they clog a toilet in someone else's house.

Ziri got a clog in the toilet.

How long this clog has been in the kitchen sink?

This chemical emulsifies the clog that is in the drain.

When a clog like this happens, you don't have to call a plumber.

Over the past 10 years, South Africa has seen its major cities sprawl, their populations grow, and traffic on road and rail networks explode. Nowhere is this more evident than in the greater Johannesburg-Pretoria area. Passengers on overfilled commuter trains hang on the outside of carriages, and vehicles clog the roads. A rapid rail network under construction is meant to ease congestion.

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Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.

[…] as to the poor—just look at them when they come crowding about the church-doors on the occasion of a marriage or a funeral, clattering in clogs; […]

She stomped up the stairs. Her clogs slammed against the pine boards of the staircase and shook the house.

The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.

I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clogs.

Yet as a Dog committed close / For some offence, by chance breaks loose, / And quits his Clog; but all in vain, / He still draws after him his Chain.

A clog of lead was round my feet / A band of pain across my brow;

The grand Conſpirator, Abbot of Weſtminster, / With clog of Conſcience, and ſowre Melancholly / Hath yeelded up his body to the graue;

All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England, are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.

By the same rule, they must send your mamma her travelling expences, miss; she can't have the clog of a couple of grown daughters at her heels without money in her pocket.

If we were as rich as your uncle, I should feel it to be both a duty and a pleasure to keep an elegant table; but limited means are a sad clog to one’s wishes.

Hair is clogging the drainpipe.

The roads are clogged up with traffic.

The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.

The commodities […]are clogged with impositions.

You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.

1973, Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Doerr, 123 N.J. Super. 530, 544, 303 A.2d 898. For centuries it has been the rule that a mortgagor’s equity of redemption cannot be clogged and that he cannot, as a part of the original mortgage transaction, cut off or surrender his right to redeem. Any agreement which does so is void and unenforceable as against public policy.

And in a burst of Celtic drums and fiddles, a bosomy colleen with a jaunty green hat and suit jacket riverdanced onto the stage, clogging with a surprising degree of expertise, barely restrained breasts jiggling.

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