How to Use bottleneck in a Sentence

bottleneck

1 of 2 noun

• 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
• The task force is made up of supply chain experts in the administration who can assess any bottlenecks in the supply chain and use federal resources to mitigate it.
  — Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2024
• For nearly ten months, officers awaiting promotion were prevented from taking on new assignments, creating bottlenecks in the chain of command and disrupting the lives of service members and their families.
  — Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2024

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bottleneck

2 of 2 verb

• The crowd bottlenecks as picketers wait for a crossing signal.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Now, more than one hundred and twelve thousand asylum-seekers are bottlenecked in Greece, more than one third of their number on the islands.
  — Patrick Strickland, The New York Review of Books, 4 Mar. 2020
• That’s expected, as most triple-A games are heavily bottlenecked by the graphics card rather than the processor.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 16 Mar. 2020
• The dinner crowd shuttled into the venue and bottlenecked at the bar, appropriately.
  — Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
• The physicality of the CM forwards proved fruitful at winning pucks along the wall and strong backchecks bottlenecked the Spartans through the neutral zone, taking away the middle of the ice.
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• This 1892 creation is one of the great, great, great grandpas of bottlenecked, centerfire rifle cartridges.
  — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2020
• A smartphone app, known as Sport Evac Lite, will become available as well, so security staff and ushers can see where fans and cars could bottleneck.
  — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2012
• Instead, importers are looking to sunny Spain and North Africa, driving up prices and bottlenecking the supply chain.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 24 Feb. 2023
• Contributing to this efficiency was the fact that bottlenecked lines to board the escalator were roughly a third as long when standers didn’t have to wait for their turn on one half of the escalator.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• As long as the production of product keeps pace with demand, in other words, there’s no reason to believe any part of Winter’s Edge’s operations would bottleneck at scale.
  — Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 1 Jan. 2021
• Cohen watched as four pickup trucks filled with armed militants and gunmen on motorcycles encircled the road leading out of the event venue, which was bottlenecked with cars attempting to flee the area.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2023
• But, beginning on Tuesday, travelers noted that the configuration at the border had changed, and the concrete dividers that used to bottleneck cars to the initial CBP checkpoint had moved.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
• Conversely, the destination disk and the interface might be newer and able to write data faster than the source sending it; that’s where data can bottleneck and potentially cause problems.
  — Eric Alt, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2021
• This can bottleneck team execution by causing arguments, or if everyone goes with the hero’s opinion, the whole team could miss out on better, more creative solutions.
  — Mark Samuel, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• As a result, the park’s conservation team is working to build new routes and visitor centers to better disperse travelers that currently bottleneck the site.
  — Julia Eskins, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2021
• After many years, the dearth of reproductive females would bottleneck the population.
  — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
• Eventually, only a pair of doors were opened, causing concertgoers to bottleneck.
  — Fox News, 13 Nov. 2021
• At the Inner Harbor, at Light and Pratt streets, revelers bottlenecked traffic, stopping cars to give drivers congratulatory hugs.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2023
• However, the other lesson is not to bottleneck your business by doing everything yourself forever.
  — Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• Some updates to Apple's Mac product lineup have often been bottlenecked on waiting for updates or overcoming barriers in Intel's roadmap, which does not always suit Apple's priorities and which has been subject to disruption in the past.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2020
• Mr. Kaloyev finds his fictionalized counterpart in Nikolai Koslov, a man whose operatic despair becomes sublimated and bottlenecked into a quest for revenge.
  — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 26 June 2017
• The reconstruction of the power grid — bottlenecked by bureaucracy, outdated laws, and potentially corruption — has been unbearably slow.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 13 Apr. 2018
• This becomes increasingly important in large datacenter environments, which can frequently bottleneck on data ingest as much or more than on raw CPU firepower.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2019
• The crowd bottlenecks as picketers wait for a crossing signal.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Now, more than one hundred and twelve thousand asylum-seekers are bottlenecked in Greece, more than one third of their number on the islands.
  — Patrick Strickland, The New York Review of Books, 4 Mar. 2020
• That’s expected, as most triple-A games are heavily bottlenecked by the graphics card rather than the processor.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 16 Mar. 2020
• The dinner crowd shuttled into the venue and bottlenecked at the bar, appropriately.
  — Tunde Wey, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
• The physicality of the CM forwards proved fruitful at winning pucks along the wall and strong backchecks bottlenecked the Spartans through the neutral zone, taking away the middle of the ice.
  — Cam Kerry, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• This 1892 creation is one of the great, great, great grandpas of bottlenecked, centerfire rifle cartridges.
  — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2020
• A smartphone app, known as Sport Evac Lite, will become available as well, so security staff and ushers can see where fans and cars could bottleneck.
  — Allison Barrie, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2012

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