Sentence examples for plugging up from inspiring English sources

Dr. Kean said ash from the fire might also play a role, plugging up pores in the soil structure.

The era of big infrastructure, a 20th-century drive that had left more than 30,000 dams plugging up waterways west of the Mississippi, was over.

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As China plays defense by plugging up the usual sources for anyone trying to follow the spreading unrest in Tibet on the Web, an innovative site has a counter-strategy: play better offense.

That assertion was not in keeping with what was known about limitations of certain cigarette filters at the time, the experts say: smokers frequently compensated for them by inhaling more deeply, plugging up filter ventilation holes with their fingers or lips or taking more puffs.

The hole started plugging up with mud and rubble at a rate of five feet per hour, making it impossible for technicians to put a special robotic camera 1,856 feet into the mine to look for signs of the men, said Rich Kulczewski, an agency spokesman.

"A plugged-up toilet is a problem -- but if it's plugged up with a toy that a tenant's child dropped in....".

Will ice plug up the pipe?

I used food to plug up my feelings.

"They've plugged up their holes really good," Cox said.

"They plugged up Frankenstein and now we're sparking to life".