How to Use boggy in a Sentence

boggy

adjective

• An ancient worshiper stopped at the edge of a boggy area in modern-day Wales and looked at the spring.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• Poison sumac is a shrub-like plant that grows in boggy areas.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 July 2023
• The air was boggy and smelled acrid with everything cast in a sepia-like haze as smoke from the wildfires still raging up in Canada rolled over the city.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
• Microfiber and polyester materials can trap heat and make the bed feel boggy.
  — Mara Santilli, SELF, 27 June 2024
• Select types of cars—many of which had off-road wheels—were also able to navigate the boggy terrain.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
• Up until the 1700s, Waikiki was just a boggy area of land, where people lived, worked, and buried their families.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2019
• The ball also didn't fly over the crossbar because the surface at the Rose Bowl was disastrously boggy, bumpy, or dry.
  — SI.com, 13 May 2018
• He’s just been tasked with figuring out who lobbed off the noggin’ of a barrister at a secretive monastery in the boggy small town of Scarnsea.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
• The punishing route will take them through dense forest, boggy wetlands, and vast, trackless deserts.
  — April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2018
• The story of the Netherlands’ long struggles against excess water is written all over its boggy landscape.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Buildings were constructed over the river itself, combined with raising the boggy land of the flood plain with ashes and other wastes.
  — David N Lerner, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2019
• Ukrainian forces were further limited by the onset of winter, as the ground became boggy.
  — Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2023
• Volunteers with the Ancient Forest Alliance built and maintain the short-but-rugged trail that traverses the grove’s boggy bottom.
  — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
• In the wild, boggy lands of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, a tundra blanket naturally insulates ice-rich permafrost.
  — Lisa Demer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2017
• There were little patches in town, on the boggy tundra next to the airport road or behind a little subdivision of newer housing.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
• Avoid wet or boggy growing areas because citronella plants may rot in soggy soil.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Apr. 2024
• But instead of beaches and saltwater marshes, woodcock are found where boggy, muddy areas meet with dense cover and young forests.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
• The Bexhill brain apparently beat the odds and made to the fossil stage because its original owner died in a boggy environment.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2016
• Here in the United Kingdom, some of the ferns suited to a very damp and boggy location include royal ferns, ostrich ferns, lady ferns, and sensitive ferns, to give a few examples.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 17 Feb. 2023
• The carnivorous plant then digests the insect, gaining nourishment that can be difficult to get from the nutrient-poor soil in its boggy home.
  — Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
• As a note, these need more water than many of the other plants on this list—keep the soil moist but not boggy.
  — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 28 Apr. 2026
• Sandy loam is ideal, but plants will grow in a variety of soil types provided the soil isn’t consistently wet or boggy.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Apr. 2026
• Don't plant hydrangeas in wet clay or a boggy spot that never dries out.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Mar. 2026
• In between, travelers are granted views of vast desert landscapes and boggy bayous.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 18 Jan. 2026
• The terrain was once too boggy and hilly for construction projects and is now protected as parkland.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2025