Examples of peat in a Sentence
Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
Brains have surfaced from northern European peat bogs, Andean mountaintops, shipwrecks, desert tombs and Victorian poorhouses.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
Eventually, the objects sank, hidden and entombed, in more than six feet of oozing peat and silt.
—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
But after decades of habitat destruction, these handsome insects are now fragmented and locally extinct, holding out in the wettest fens, valleys, and peat bogs of the New Forest and Dorset.
—Matthew Ponsford, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
The team is also launching a program called Atlas of Smoke, which will use algorithmic imagery to decipher how the peat levels in the whisky respond to aging.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2024
Police were first called to County Londonderry’s Bellaghy Bog in October, when a civilian noticed human bones sticking out of the peat.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2024
The oldest distillery on Islay, dating back to 1779, Bowmore uses peat to malt its barley.
—Tony Sachs, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
The peat is fed by a decaying layer of sphagnum moss, sundew, and butterwort, which deepens a millimeter a year.
—Aaron Hicklin, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Noun (1)
Middle English pete piece of peat, from Medieval Latin peta, probably of Celtic origin; akin to Cornish peyth bit, Welsh peth thing
Noun (2)
origin unknown
Noun (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Noun (2)
1566, in the meaning defined above
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“Peat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peat. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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