How to Use bottleneck in a Sentence

bottleneck

noun
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  • All decisions must be approved by the committee, and this is where the company runs into bottlenecks.
  • Bridge construction has created a bottleneck on the southern part of Main Street.
  • Then, simply place the bottle opener on the bottleneck, squeeze, and turn the corkscrew to remove the cork.
    — Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Feb. 2024
  • But the process of moving them may prove to be a bottleneck as qubit counts continue to ramp up.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Rivera and Piña say there’s a big bottleneck in the lower and upper levels.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • So that’s probably going to be a bottleneck on your trip to and fro.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
  • In the case of electric cars, batteries are the number one bottleneck.
    — Steve Richmond, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The entrances to Interstate 8 and State Route 163 near Target are one of the county’s worst bottlenecks.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • The species has gone through this huge bottleneck and through that lost a lot of genetic variation.
    — Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2022
  • There are still bottlenecks to overcome, though, Yan says.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2023
  • The bottleneck shows how the challenges of dealing with a surge in immigration do not end at the southern border.
    — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2023
  • In a paper last year, the team revealed a new liquid neural network that got around that bottleneck.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The Black death rate jumped above White people’s when the spike in cases and deaths overwhelmed providers in the Northeast, resulting in a bottleneck of testing and treatment.
    — Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Gladden slowly makes his way inside as the traffic jam of stars reaches its bottleneck near the venue’s entrance.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The 20 year old also parted her signature bottleneck bangs down the middle as her long hair framed her figure in loose curls.
    — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Those places can be bottlenecks when multiple trains are on the corridor.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • And because much of those building materials will need to be shipped in, supply chains could get snarled and bottlenecks could form.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The company’s processors are key to the A.I. boom, and there are concerns short supply could create a bottleneck.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Other aspects of the supply chain could become a bottleneck.
    — Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2023
  • At mid-block hugs, sidewalks widen to create nine-foot-wide bottlenecks, just narrow enough to slow a Suburban to a cautious crawl.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Or, as an alternative: This is your sign to consider the merits of breezy bottleneck bangs.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2022
  • But that program has been plagued by delays and a bottleneck partially caused by staffing shortages.
    — Ashraf Khalil, ajc, 16 Feb. 2023
  • This is the bottleneck: enrolling people in studies and counting their heart attacks.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 3 Nov. 2022
  • But now, taking on water in the bottleneck of the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, its two dozen crew issued an urgent call for help and prepared to abandon ship.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Here, jokes about the city’s storied landmarks and its bureaucratic bottlenecks help ground some of the sitcom’s headier themes.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Yet some of the most important weapons platforms are in high demand in both regions and face production bottlenecks.
    — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2023
  • No signs have emerged of bottlenecks of new arrivals at Cap-Haïtien or Port-de-Paix, northern port cities that have most often been used as launch sites for ocean journeys.
    — Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
  • However, the narrow right-of-way at places like Del Mar creates bottlenecks that slow the entire corridor.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
  • While the bottleneck had been mostly resolved by Thursday, airport officials were bracing for the busiest travel day since the start of the pandemic ahead of the Fourth of July.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 30 June 2023
  • That could lead to supply bottlenecks as each of the players moves to build a robust, homegrown green energy economy.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2023

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