boggy
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"The hills look burnt," he said, adding that peatland, usually wet and boggy, "is now crunchy" underfoot.
From BBC ● May 20, 2025
David Marshall hurling himself low on a boggy Serbian patch of grass.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023
Other revellers took the boggy conditions it in their stride - dancing in the mud and holding karaoke parties.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2023
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
Trenches hastily scratched out in the boggy soil of Flanders had become part of a continuous line of fortified trenches that stretched 475 miles from the English Channel to the Swiss Alps.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
"There'll be a real variety of species," Glover added, explaining that the "wetter and boggier" landscape will see "more wading birds."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Large areas are becoming wetter and boggier, while native megaherbs such as Pleurophyllum and Stilbocarpa are shrinking back.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
That puts L.A. ahead of boggier metropolises such as Atlanta — the most mosquito-infested city for the previous seven years — Washington and Dallas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2021
They often dominate boggier soils that others can't endure; sometimes they're interspersed with a few mountain hemlocks and shore pine trees.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2012
"You have been a boggier ever," Antony tells Cleopatra, and the same might be said of this drama.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems like the wettest, boggiest slope ever, with scores of crisscrossing rainwater runnels, turning everything into a churn of mud and sheep droppings.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2018
The river-bed, too, was then in its boggiest state.
From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Carson, Thomas
Several ways present themselves, and whichever the traveller takes he will think that he has taken the boggiest.
From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by Hart, H. C.
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