375 examples of clogging in sentences

But the sled kept clogging, sticking fast and breaking down.

God knows the law has enough to do without clogging its wheels with innocence.

Mud, water, and cold, with the stench of the dead clogging your nostrils!

First snows are soft and clogging and make laborious paths.

It increases, is wet and clogging, and makes a white night of midday.

thus, my Mabel, shall thy prison'd soul Rise to its sister angels heavenward still; And soon the mortal fetters shall hang loose, Scarce clogging aught its motions glad and free.

"The youth must be stirred to greater industry in this matter, by clogging the wheels of the law.

On the march, in the charge or pursuit or retreat, it is a senseless, clogging, spirit-shackling incubus, a rank absurdity, and an utter impossibility.

"My impression is that the principal sponsors for the League are searching through the numerous disputes which are clogging the wheels of the Conference, seizing upon every one which can possibly be referred, and heaping them on the League of Nations to give it standing as a useful and necessary adjunct to the Treaty.

Besides, the preponderance of the deputies from the commercial towns in the states-general caused the others to become mere ciphers in times of peace; only capable of clogging the march of affairs, and of being, on occasions of civil dissensions, the mere tools of whatever party possessed the greatest tact in turning them to their purpose.

But here a mean Observe, nor the large hound prefer, of size Gigantic; he in the thick-woven covert Painfully tugs, or in the thorny brake Torn and embarrassed bleeds: but if too small, 260 The pigmy brood in every furrow swims; Moiled in the clogging clay, panting they lag Behind inglorious; or else shivering creep Benumbed and faint beneath the sheltering thorn.

O'er clogging fallows, o'er dry plastered roads, O'er floated meads, o'er plains with flocks distained 170 Rank-scenting, these must lead the dubious way.

Among the Marquis of Worcester's celebrated "Century of Inventions," 12mo, 1663, is one "so contrived without suspicion, that playing at Primero at cards, one may, without clogging his memory, keep reckoning of all sixes, sevens, and aces, which he hath discarded."No.

The intérieur is so large and so well cushioned that it is easy to sleep in it ordinarily, and, had it not been for the sudden stops occasioned by the clogging of the wheels in the snow, we should have had very good rest; but the discordant music made by the wheels as they ground the frozen snow, sounding like innumerable instruments, mostly discordant, but now and then concordant, prevented our sound sleep.

He made the greatest speech from the dock ever was made, and Lord Norbury on the bench, checking and clogging him all the time.

How can she know what 'tis, for months and months To stoop and straddle in the clogging fallows, Bearing about a living babe within you?

He wanted to fling aside that clogging crowd, run, leap, arrive.

Yes, the cold rigor of this new life had already worn off much of the clogging weight of flesh, strengthened the muscles.

The surface was awful, the soft recently fallen snow clogging the ski and runners at every step, the sledge groaning, the sky overcast, and the land hazy.

Away to the north the strait could be seen growing narrower, with heavy ice-tables grinding up and clogging it from cliff to cliff on either side.

If you diminish the supply of air much (as by clogging your furnace bars and keeping the doors shut), you will be merely distilling carbonic oxide up the chimneya poisonous gas, of which probably a considerable quantity is frequently given off from close stoves.

I declare to my goodness, the name of you put terror on me through the whole of my lifetime, and your image to be clogging and checking me on every side.

She had expressed it exactlyit seemed as though some one had been trying to write with a weight clogging his hand.

The black face looked up from the clogging smoke with a curious stare.

That, and the strong smell of the bluish, short-needled pine, was ever clogging my nostrils and confusing me.

375 examples of  clogging  in sentences