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How to use the word congestion in a Sentence?

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It’s logical that United States has n’t yet developed a nationwide high-speed network, for decades, traveling by car was n’t a hardship, but as highway congestion gets worse, we’ve reached a stage where we should start looking more seriously at the alternatives.

Scott Sherin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China’s economy likely bottomed in December, for many cities in China, the peak of the first wave [of Covid outbreaks] likely already passed. High frequency indicators such as traffic congestion index rebounded sharply in January.

Zhiwei Zhang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It felt like a mild cold. I think the worst thing was probably a sore throat and some congestion. Like, that was the worst of it.

Vincent Zhou

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The symptoms I did have were honestly lighter than your average cold or flu, it felt like a mild cold. I think the worst thing was probably a sore throat and some congestion. Like, that was the worst of it.

Vincent Zhou

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We have congestion at seaports ; we have a shortage of containers because transportation volumes went up, we have a shortage of logistics workers in different segments around the world.

Felix Papier

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Within two days of being here, we had four Guard members that were symptomatic with sore throats, headaches, body aches, fever, nasal congestion, and they all tested positive for Covid.

Lanette Looney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's going to modernize our ports with $17 billion dollars in investment. ... We're going to reduce congestion. We're going to address repair and maintenance backlogs, deploy state of the art technologies and make our ports cleaner and more efficient. And we're going to do the same with our airports and freight rail.

The President

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We don't have the problems of congestion in the sky because we've got another axis to work with.

Paul Sciarra

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Symptom reporting is more important than ever, vaccinated people may have very different symptoms. Last year, for those who had COVID-19, they might have a high fever and chills and trouble breathing... and with the vaccination they may have only nasal congestion or a mild sore throat or a headache or fatigue.

Allen Sills

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is no reason there should be that kind of bar congestion.

Dawn Lehman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They're still dealing with this, we're building stuff without thinking. We haven't gotten results on congestion and rather than pivoting, we're going to do it underground, too.

Beth Osborne

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This could be a truly innovative way to reduce traffic congestion.

Dean Trantalis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If anything, unwinding of the backlog initiated following congestion in Yantian terminal could take months, as the onset of the peak season will mean demand will only further increase.

Parash Jain

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Those buoys aren’t going to do anything to enhance security. It will increase congestion in an already congested area, and I’ll say, signs do not stop people with bad intentions.

Guy Shields

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

And I have to tell you, what I saw was horrible. What I saw was horrible, you could hear him struggling with the breathing ... It sounded like firecrackers going off on his chest. You could just hear the congestion.

Carlos Gallegos

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If you can actually reschedule cities thanks to the newfound flexibility following the pandemic there could be ... a big impact, one of the tragedies of cities in the 20th century was really having everything synchronised, so you had peak hour, rush hour, and then there was a lot of congestion.

Carlo Ratti

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Aside from some congestion and coughing, the gorillas are doing well. the troop remains quarantined together and are eating and drinking. We are hopeful for a full recovery.

Lisa Peterson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The most common reason is if your nose is stuffy, from allergies, or if you have a deviated septum. Lots of medications can also cause nasal congestion.

Steven Park

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is simply related to terminal congestion. They've got so much coming in that they can't bring it onshore quickly enough.

Matt Smith

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Vodacom's 5G launch in South Africa comes at an important time as it will help us improve our network efficiency during the COVID-19 national state of disaster, this is largely due to the allocation of temporary spectrum by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) which has already mitigated the network congestion we have experienced since the start of the lockdown period.

Chief Executive Shameel Joosub

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The turning point has arrived... We are seeing that port congestion has eased and logistics start to revive.

Xu Kai

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The goal is to get people out of single-occupancy rides to reduce congestion.

Alex Lavoie

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Linggi has a massive advantage, (being) right next to one of the busiest shipping lanes with deep waters to accommodate large ships, and there is no congestion, offering the flexibility to anchor immediately.

Alex Staring

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Rarely you see such a potentially massive disruption, delays, a reduced active fleet supply, slow steaming and port congestion can push freight rates to decade highs, and beyond.

John Kartsonas

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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