How to Use buggy in a Sentence

buggy

1 of 2 adjective
  • It's too buggy out here—let's go inside.
  • In the next six months, the environment will get hotter, wetter and buggier, and the number of infections will rise.
    Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 19 Mar. 2016
  • People can whitewash buggy botspeak by giving it a human sheen in a retweet.
    Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 2 May 2018
  • The end of technical support for Vista doesn't mean installations will suddenly become useless, just less secure and buggier as time goes on.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Not only has Android become way slicker than before, but Apple has started to put out buggier software, annoying iPhone and iPad users.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Vera is a heroine for the ages, enduring day after lonely, buggy day without losing her spirit, compassion or love of beauty.
    Nalini Jones, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Unfortunately in our experience, setup was a pain, the Blink app was an ugly, buggy mess, and live streaming took forever to start, often failing entirely.
    Ben Keough, USA TODAY, 14 June 2017
  • It's too buggy out here—let's go inside.
  • In the next six months, the environment will get hotter, wetter and buggier, and the number of infections will rise.
    Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 19 Mar. 2016
  • People can whitewash buggy botspeak by giving it a human sheen in a retweet.
    Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 2 May 2018
  • The end of technical support for Vista doesn't mean installations will suddenly become useless, just less secure and buggier as time goes on.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2017
  • Not only has Android become way slicker than before, but Apple has started to put out buggier software, annoying iPhone and iPad users.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Vera is a heroine for the ages, enduring day after lonely, buggy day without losing her spirit, compassion or love of beauty.
    Nalini Jones, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Unfortunately in our experience, setup was a pain, the Blink app was an ugly, buggy mess, and live streaming took forever to start, often failing entirely.
    Ben Keough, USA TODAY, 14 June 2017
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buggy

2 of 2 noun
  • He rode into town on his horse and buggy.
  • Indeed, the time to have ditched the horse and buggy was 15 years ago.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The two rode dirt buggies through the sand and even met a camel, who gave the actress a kiss on the cheek.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • On the way back, Almazrouei parks the buggy on a dune above the Liwa Nights camp.
    Barry Neild, CNN, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The two were in the buggy with their eight children, who range from 9 months to 16 years old, Geller said.
    Sahar Akbarzai and Mirna Alsharif, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The horse was not harmed, and the buggy was returned, police said.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Sid Houpt also shot George, who died in a buggy at the scene.
    Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Dance to some buggy music and do a craft with the authors.
    cleveland, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The Amish do not drive cars and use horses and buggies to travel.
    Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2024
  • In the end, my only sightings came while inside the buggy, not out on the street.
    Heather Greenwood Davis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
  • Also, the iOS version of the app was a little buggy in my use.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 24 Aug. 2021
  • In 1881, a summer kitchen was built and a barn was added for the minister's horse and buggy.
    Evan Casey, Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2022
  • Step away from your camp site and hop on a buggy for another kind of wild ride.
    Anna Mahan, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The crash is at least the second in which children riding in an Amish buggy died as a result of a crash in the US in the past week.
    Macie Goldfarb, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
  • This was not the case with the Magic Leap 1, which had a very limiting field-of-view and buggy controller.
    Anshel Sag, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • Consider how the automobile meant the end of the horse and buggy.
    Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • In the 19th century, the city’s fishermen flocked there by horse and buggy.
    New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The slow, buggy apps built into your TV probably aren’t the best way to watch all that content, though.
    Geoffrey Morrison, wsj.com, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Each buggy also has a viewing platform on the back and the windows slide down for great video and photos.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • As deputy fire marshal, he was thrown from his buggy, run over by an engine, and died of his injuries in 1887.
    Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2022
  • That sounds appealing, but in practice it’s been buggy, at least for me.
    oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2022
  • For me, that history is framed from the seat of Lou’s old buggy, on a wild ride pulled by make-believe horses.
    Helen Shriver Riley, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Workers have found the software that runs Meta’s VR platform too buggy.
    Mike Isaac, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Some of these features will be rolled out in phases, and beta versions of Win11 have been buggy.
    Brenda Stolyar, Wired, 22 Sep. 2021
  • But the app can be buggy and difficult to register for.
    New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
  • How spill 30 requires Amish buggies to display yellow flashing lights on the top rear of the buggy.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 May 2022
  • The Sierra Cars Echo is an all-electric single-seat buggy.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 22 June 2023
  • Next, the couple found a 1938 photo that appeared to show a car or a horse-and-buggy pulling into the parking spot, but the city said the image wasn't clear enough.
    CBS News, 5 July 2022
  • This site allowed visitors to come by train, car, buggy, or on foot.
    David Buie, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Some were in leg warmers, colorful coats or being pushed in buggies.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2024

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