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Examples of bog in a Sentence
Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
Alan Richardson Pix-AR SHARE New research suggests that a piece of fabric tartan found in a peat bog in the Scottish Highlands may be the oldest traditional tartan ever found.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
Get The Recipe 26 of 30 Chicken-And-Collards Pilau This pilau recipe is similar to chicken bog, but with even more flavor.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2023
It is restricted to low bogs where its roots are bathed in water all year long.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2023
Also known as peat moss, sphagnum mosses carpet the ground in marshes, moors and peat bogs.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
Enter Email Sign Up The news serves as a bright spot amid the challenges facing the state’s nearly 13,000 acres of cranberry bogs, which generate $1.7 billion for the Massachusetts economy, according to a June report from agricultural lender Farm Credit East.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
But beginning about 6,000 years ago, waves of settlers cut, burned, and sent their flocks to graze on the woods, transforming this once lush, temperate rainforest into a terrain of treeless bogs, heaths, and pastures.
—WIRED, 22 July 2023
Bronze oaks and golden marsh grasses create the signature colors, but be on the lookout for bright pops of red from thickets of sumac and the Cape’s famed cranberry bogs.
—Patricia Harris and David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
What if the polarization, paranoia, conspiracism, and hopelessness that bog us down have a more holistic origin than structural malfunctions or individual malfeasance?
—Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
The couple worried that using a credit card to travel to the East Coast would leave an evidence trail that could bog them down in litigation or cost them their right to practice medicine.
—Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 20 June 2023
Those factions attempted to bog things down by filing multiple amendments, all unsuccessful, to change the legislation.
—Laura Litvan, Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2023
At other times, though, directorial choices severely bog the production down.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
The Aztecs like to muddy the waters and finally were able to bog the game down to their liking in the second half.
—John Marshall, ajc, 4 Apr. 2023
Sometimes that stuff bogs things down and overcomplicates something that's just fun.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 May 2023
Having that single focus also helps filter out the distractions that can otherwise bog founders down to the point of stymieing progress.
—Matt Carbonara, Forbes, 13 May 2021
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Word History
Noun (1) and Verb
Middle English (Scots), from Scottish Gaelic & Irish bog- (as in bogluachair bulrushes), from bog marshy, literally, soft, from Middle Irish bocc; probably akin to Old English būgan to bend — more at bow
Noun (2)
short for boghouse, from British argot bog to defecate
Noun (1)
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Verb
1599, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
Noun (2)
circa 1789, in the meaning defined above
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“Bog.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bog. Accessed 28 Nov. 2023.
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