peat bog
Example Sentences
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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
He noted that “holdover” is also used to describe peat bog fires that burn many feet below the surface for weeks or months, even under snowpack.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
We know now that the remains — extraordinarily well preserved — belonged to a teenage boy from the Iron Age, held together for thousands of years by the preservative power of the peat bog.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Vittrup Man is the nickname of a Stone Age skeleton recovered from a peat bog in Northwest Denmark, dating to between 3300-3100 BC.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024
It was night and we were crossing a very bad swamp, an old peat bog which was full of the ditches and holes that the peat had been taken from.
