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Example Sentences

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He knew he should probably seek a permit but didn’t want to get bogged down in red tape.

From The Wall Street Journal

“North” was a galvanizing book for its bog poems as well as sequences such as “Singing School” and “Whatever You Say Say Nothing”:

From The Wall Street Journal

Sports move so fast that we don’t have time to get bogged down with approvals and multiple meetings to discuss one thing.

From The Wall Street Journal

Companies would theoretically also be able to avoid opposition from communities that don’t want data centers in their backyards and sidestep regulations that bog down construction on Earth.

From MarketWatch

The movie doesn’t get bogged down in this kind of thing, but it does have a somber air and a looser, more digressive plot than its predecessor.

From The Wall Street Journal