unclog

Example Sentences

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Newman’s Julia, whom we meet as she bicycles back to her women’s hostel in order to unclog a toilet, grew up in a SAZ, or “Semi-Autonomous Zone.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

The AI also might be able to design nano-robots that enter the human body and steer through the blood stream to unclog arteries, diagnose illnesses or kill cancer cells.

From Science Daily • Oct. 3, 2023

And in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, workers waded through knee-high water as they tried to unclog a drain as cardboard and other debris floated by.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2023

And he scored a hard-to-get surgery appointment for late this month to help unclog the arteries in his heart.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2023

Within minutes, Miele was on a table in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, awaiting angioplasty to unclog his artery—a procedure that many cardiologists say has become the gold standard in heart attack treatment.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times