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How to use bogged in a sentence

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William would not have been able to move his cavalry through this area as the horses would have been bogged down.
We live in a world bogged down by to-do lists, with every interruption imaginable from the television and radio to the Internet.
He was unable to extract round bales from this part of land because machinery got bogged down in the mire.
Scotland on Sunday revealed 18 months ago that a previous project had to be scrapped after getting bogged down in funding delays.
All its talk of expansion will inevitably be bogged down in bureaucratic delay, and the building will itself cause disruption.
We could get bogged down in legal argument, factor in mitigating circumstances and take previous behaviour into consideration.
Sir Samuel has a flowing style of writing that never gets bogged down or turgid.
His view is that without a single-minded purpose, Scotland will remain bogged down in stale arguments that will hold the country back.
It has spared me of the kind of emotional and financial responsibilities that make one get bogged down with family life.
Their members will never be bogged down in committee meetings in some district council.
He showed signs of ability at Ascot 11 days ago, but got bogged down in the heavy ground.
The seven-year-old, who won the Novices' Chase at Sandown in December, was bogged down in mud last time.
At this stage we do not need to get bogged down in well-rehearsed arguments about the extent to which people are really free.
With heavy rain now falling, the game became bogged down in a midfield stalemate.
Written for the educated, informed individual, the book does not get bogged down in dry information.
Progress in our understanding of the relationships between ontogeny and phylogeny forever seems to be bogged in nomenclatural disputes.
It is alarming that surgeries are bogged down by farcical officialism and red tape, instead of leaving medical staff to use their own discretion.
I get depressed and frustrated when debates get bogged down in predictable rigid left-right ritual stand-offs.
Your friendly neighborhood multilateralist thinks it can be bottled up, buried in bureaucracy, bogged down in red tape.
Breen sticks closely to the politics, avoiding getting bogged down in the quagmire of personal detail.
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It is bogged down in a quagmire, and its credibility has been undermined internationally.
Alas, intellectually fascinating issues are raised only to become bogged down in the essay's general diffuseness.
Instead it gets bogged down in motions and amendments, addendums and deliverances, overtures and the like.
His best divisions were bogged down in Yemen, so he was in a weak position, and he rattled sabers hard as a bluff.
They got a bit bogged down near the end of the performance during a final pirouette in piaffe, but overall featured a strong technique.
He can kind of get bogged down in the details sometimes, and some people might not care why ahi tuna is inferior to bluefin.
The Cook Islands currently has no labour laws defining workers' rights with legislation bogged down in continual redrafts.
You don't want to be bogged down with all those bureaucratic rules and regulations?
Rugby union is bogged down by a morass of strange and indecipherable rules.
We ran out of time and just took a shot, but the bike bogged when I let out the clutch.
If the book gets bogged down occasionally in its liberal social, political, economic, etc discourse, it can be forgiven.
Time and again, Web readers are left overwhelmed, bogged down by big blocks of text, unnavigable homepages and user-unfriendly features.
The council is inefficient and bogged down in its own process of faction fighting and pettiness.
He recalls in 1955 and 1956 it was very wet and the truck he'd use for roo shooting would get bogged, so in 1957 he was only rabbit trapping.
It was kind of a slow field and was getting a little bogged down at the end.
It's traumatic when you find that someone you don't really know but who you've always assumed would be there has bogged off.
Two attempts to move back to Chile were bogged down by unresolved custody issues over Matias.
I turned my attention back to the ute, which was hopelessly bogged in thick black mud.
Under the road map, both sides are supposed to act in tandem, but progress has bogged down over who should make the next move.
For the moment, the project is bogged down in bureaucracy and can't get off the ground because of government inaction.
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Later, he used morality on the international stage to dress up a government bogged down in managerialism and public-sector reform.
The pressure told on both sets of players as the game got bogged down in a midfield melee with precious little invention from the teams.
They chose the wrong time though, because I was very sick, and bogged down by schoolwork and projects.
In five months from January to May, 1944, the Allied troops were bogged down in a street-by-street battle.
At times his work gets bogged down in its own abstract acrobatics, becoming contrived and overwrought.
Our judicial system is not renowned for its speedy and expeditious methods and court cases are often bogged down for years.
It was this thorny question which bogged down the Saturday night delegates.
The shore batteries took a heavy toll of the landing craft, particularly at Westkapelle, and supporting armour bogged down in the soft clay.
However, in trying to cut across a flooded rice field, he and his friends are bogged down.
Instead, the military commission proceedings are bogged down in a pre-trial phase, as it has been for the past three years.
Too much of the show, however, was bogged down by sketches that were underwritten and overlong.
This often takes hours because of the distances across the property, but the muddy and drying waterholes are a danger point for animals, because they get bogged in the mud.
But the transfer has bogged down in quibbling over technicalities.
From an earned-media standpoint, Occupy got off of its message of critiquing the economy and got bogged down in process.
They tend to amble along in the beginning, bogged down in trivialities.
Kids weren't bogged down by the taxation plot device that seems to unnecessarily bother us adults, they saw it for the enjoyable romp that it was.
The picture shows a vehicle being bogged down at the autocross.
They continue to be bogged down with allegations of substandard mental-health care.
For centuries, London built balance-of-power coalitions that enabled Albion to preserve its sea power, while not getting bogged down in losing ground wars.
Allied vehicles bearing ammunition and supplies bogged down in the snow.
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Every president seems to get bogged down in policy overload and programmatic detail.
Yet it is the absence of concrete, compelling details that allows these poems to get bogged down in their juvenile fascination with the verbal act as such.
Time and time again they were bogged down by wasted opportunities.
You don't want to try to change too much and get bogged down in detail.
Both these projects have been bogged down by constant delays.
It is bogged down in a ground war it did not expect and does not have sufficient troops easily to deal with, and which is paralysing its capacity to act elsewhere.
The novel picks up momentum and becomes more affecting as it moves forward, leaving behind the early chapters that sometimes get bogged down with the family's past.
The whole film is light and delicate, but is bogged down by its budget constraints and a script laden with endless dialogue and first-person narration.
Everyone in the PR department had bogged off to a winery for the evening.
A potentially exciting adventure gets bogged down in a self-important and unintentionally disrespectful parody of Native Alaskan spiritual beliefs.
Instead of coming up with practical, realistic solutions, city council will get bogged down in an unresolvable argument over the evils of alcohol.
Maybe traditional texts do sometimes get a bit bogged down in the details of how the spinning jenny worked, but the macroeconomic emphasis of this book also has its drawbacks.
The only story of hers that I remember was about the time an old carthorse was brought back into service after a car, then a tractor, both got bogged.
Needless to say, investors can get bogged down with information overload.
The use of bombers and fighter-bombers at the frontline helped to ease the path of inexperienced armies that threatened to get bogged down in Normandy and Italy.
Be careful, or your spirits will be bogged down with dissipation, drunkenness, and the anxieties of life, and that Day will pounce on you like a trap.
And the U.S. too is bogged down in a similar low-grade and low-tech dance.
Actuaries often get bogged down in compliance requirements and dealing with details that, although sometimes tedious, cannot be neglected.
The imperial army, bogged down in long, futile wars against the more aggressive Marathas lost its fighting spirit.
An intriguing premise gets bogged down in a surfeit of subplots and back stories in this unwieldy thriller set in Soviet Russia.
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Souvenance had been pothunting in Ireland before getting bogged down in desperate ground in a Listed race at Hamburg in June.
Two of those sank in deep water, and 12 more became bogged down in the soft shingle beach.
It's not bogged down in getting all the excruciating details right-it's all about getting XSLT to do stuff immediately.
The attack went ahead but the carriers bogged in the sand and the attempt failed.
The romantic notions of warfare that everyone had expected faded as the fighting in France bogged down into trench warfare.
British forces were bogged down by assault rifle, mortar, machine gun, artillery fire, sniper fire, and ambushes.
Often, we can all become so bogged down in production issues and finances that we don't see the end result of our toils.
At that moment there was a sudden downpour and we had to shift to the woolshed some distance off to avoid getting bogged.
The start was terrible as the bike bogged off the line leaving me with a lot of ground to make up.
The war in the north then bogged down into a stalemate, with neither side capable of attacking the other in any decisive manner.
Naturally, I bogged my head just like one of those rodeo broncs and avoided the caliber as much as I could without getting fired.
After many false starts, at least Japan appears finally to be escaping two decades bogged down in a deflationary quagmire.
If you had not written to me... we had broke now, the Frenchmen bogged us so often with departing.
The fighting bogged down into static trench warfare for the remainder of the war.
The much anticipated counteroffensive has been repeatedly postponed because Iraqi forces are unprepared and bogged down in battle elsewhere.
The vehicle then got bogged in by tidal movements, Sgt Sears said.
Tension had steadily risen after the Schlieffen Plan to smash through Belgium and take Paris by storm bogged down in Flanders and northern France.
As a handbook, Peacocks work does not get bogged down in technical discussions of petrology, morphology, design or provenance, among other subjects.
We cannot be hog-tied and pulled back by the separatists on a question answered a year ago and we cannot get bogged down in the separatist neverendum.
Predictably the seminarians' lives are littered with the minutiae of modern life, and at times Englert gets bogged down in recounting the prosaic details.
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Perhaps I should just have sent him breakfast and bogged off.
Last night he denied any conflict of interest and Adam claimed Scottish football clubs were too bogged down by an old-boy network to appreciate fresh ideas.
It is important not to get bogged down in a minitrial of the study itself.
I see League One as split into three sections of eight and this campaign our aim is to make the middle eight rather than be bogged down in the bottom segment.
It is a point driven home, and the most amusing thing about Killing Them Softly is that even the mobsters in this movie are bogged down by bureaucratisation.

Examples from Classical Literature

Why, it is all firm about here, and nobody could be bogged unless he got into a hole.
He was a cautious beast, and this may have arisen from his having been often bogged.
Hugo saw at once that it was a great cause and that it was bogged in the greed of individuals.
Nor was this all, for his centre was bogged in the famous marshes of St. Gond.
Our cattle, from poverty, bogged in the river, or perished from hunger.
Somin does not get bogged down in theoretical issues related to political ignorance versus rational irrationality, which is good for his intended audience.
It is a stiff place, and I feel as though I were bogged up to the axle.

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