bog

Example Sentences

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The mist thickened around them, filling their mouths and noses with the taste and smell of the bog.

From Literature

Sphagnum moss can hold 20 times its weight in water and helps create peat bogs, where dead vegetation accumulates rather than decays, capturing carbon in the ground.

From BBC

Instead of getting bogged down on the day-to-day of your job, and your growing disgust for it, fixate on your bigger purpose, said Nancy Ancowitz, a career strategist, and do something to nourish that.

From Barron's

"It's a generational issue," he says, arguing they don't want to be "bogged down with this debate".

From BBC

Yet one high-ranking officer said the continent was "completely paralysed" and bogged down in debate rather than action.

From Barron's