Sentence examples for have been clogging from inspiring English sources

Inappropriate calls that have been clogging up the emergency phone lines range from problems with utilities to complaints about noise.

As millions of Americans have fallen behind on paying their bills, debt collection law firms have been clogging courtrooms with lawsuits seeking repayment.

The Supreme Court and some legal experts have said such lawsuits have been clogging dockets around the nation, with most of the money available for relief going instead to lawyers for plaintiffs and defendants.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 — When state Democratic leaders from around the country meet this weekend in Vermont, the California chairman, Art Torres, expects to be peppered with the sort of questions that have been clogging his in-box for weeks.

Most transactions through agents proceed smoothly, but complaints from customers who have hit a brick wall trying to get what they paid for have been clogging the Observer's inbox.

After all, fried beer, deep-fried Twinkies and fried lemonade have been clogging fair-goers' arteries for years.

All the old channels must have been clogged with algae and the sort of scum that collects on a dead pond.

Phone-ins and letters pages have been clogged with people drawing unflattering comparisons between the two codes and the teams led by Bobby Moore and Martin Johnson.

The main answer is that despite billions spent on highway construction, the roads have been clogged with ever more cars: between 1992 and 1999 vehicle registrations rose by 550,000.

Now, he said, vital streams of credit have been clogged, not just for big investors but also for families wanting to buy houses and cars and pay for tuition.

Many emergency officials said they were used to seeing the flooding from a winter thaw, either from "ponding" by rain and snow melt behind clogged drains -- the kind of flooding most likely to occur in cities -- or along the shores of rivers and streams that have been clogged by ice dams.