Sentence examples for had been clogged from inspiring English sources

The sink had been clogged for four months and would be clogged for seven more.

Her recent finish at the Jamie Farr Classic in Ohio cleared passageways in her mind that had been clogged by doubt for years.

(In 2010 Jakarta's governor blamed massive flooding in the capital on climate change even as the head of his public works office admitted that 80% of the city's drains had been clogged).So the witch hunt began.

Understatement award: "Sam Coldsmith had gotten a good deal on the lease from the previous tenant, Long-Term Capital Management, after its prized financial modeling engines had been clogged by a vicious little bug called Russia".

It might be more accurate to call them excavations, as Sheetrock warrens and false floors were cleared away and spaces that had been clogged for 30 years were reopened to the light.

Then, on the Monday before Labor Day, a truck hauling the two sections of the new modular house crept up the road that had been clogged with fire equipment two months earlier.

His fellow transportation engineers read a message that traffic that had been clogging Third Avenue had cleared up.

One small chest of drawers was totally empty once I cleared out the rubbish, so I donated it and put the stylish boxes that had been clogging up the corridor in its place.

Even the home-show items he discounted were generally slow-selling pieces that had been clogging his warehouse and that he was only too happy to move, especially at markups around 100 percent.

ANDREA SPERLING, a photographer and single mother who lives in Gramercy Park, had a thrilling epiphany this summer: her daughter, Grace, 11, had finally outgrown the toys and child-size furniture that had been clogging their living room for more than a decade.

These have included steep taxes on apartment purchases by anyone who is not a permanent resident, notably mainlanders; a ban on pregnant visitors from the mainland, who had been clogging Hong Kong's obstetric wards so as to gain legal residency for their offspring; and the shelving of a plan for schools to teach a patriotic education course extolling the Communist Party.