boggy

Example Sentences

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The 30-mile strenuous and pathless trek across mountainous terrain, rivers and boggy ground is part of the Cape Wrath Trail and is normally completed in three days.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

"The hills look burnt," he said, adding that peatland, usually wet and boggy, "is now crunchy" underfoot.

From BBC • May 20, 2025

"What we're left with here is a remnant of Doggerland in Holderness - this wet, boggy area," says Mr Myerscough.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

It took 60 years but a postulator from the Vatican finally came to Richard, a lonesome patch of boggy farmland in southern Louisiana’s rice belt, last December.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2022

And so the Bog created a Body: a great Beast that walked out of the Bog on its own strong, boggy legs.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill