bog
Example Sentences
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Anything would be better than trotting out another bog standard pro sports salute to the troops that year.
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026
At Kingsdale Head, two thirds of the 610-hectare site is blanket bog and farm manager Jamie McEwan says they are beginning to see "really nice results" from the restoration.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026
He grew up a farmer, and when he founded a golf course here 30 years ago, his favorite part was moving dirt around what had once been a peat bog.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
The expedited processing works by stripping away many of the discretionary review processes that typically bog down housing projects: City Council hearings, environmental reports, neighborhood outreach meetings, etc.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
He’d given me straightforward directions that he simply hadn’t had time to explain: “The Old Man,” I realized, was what the locals called the bog boy, and his grave was the cairn.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
Vocabulary lists containing bog
St. Patrick's Day Vocabulary: Words With Irish and Gaelic Roots
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English Words Derived from Gaelic
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