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How to use boggy in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective

Boggy means having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation. Example: “The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.”

Examples of boggy by meaning

adjectiveHaving the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.

  • The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.
  • But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build on.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
  • As well as being a magnet for wildlife, Flow Country is also special for its valuable role in mitigating climate change, as the boggy ground provides a huge natural sink for carbon dioxide.2021 November 3, Paul Stephen, “As far north as you can go... to Thurso”, in RAIL, number 943, page 49

More sentences with boggy

  • Due to the boggy conditions, they used a track-mounted excavator.From the entry track-mounted
  • The headwaters of Alarka Creek are within the heart of the boggy red spruce forest.2014 September 24, George Ellison, “Nature Journal: Directions to an autumn paradise in WNC”, in The Asheville Citizen-Times, retrieved 01…. From the entry wildflowering
  • The ground in places is spewy and boggy from the wet.1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 78. From the entry spewy
  • ModE dial flother 'swamp, a boggy place liable to overflow in wet seasons', very common in f.ns. in Northumberland, e.g.2007, [Journal of the] English Place-Name Society, volume 83, page 14. From the entry flother
  • A timber trestle bridge was used in this instance because the boggy peat soil offered only a poor foundation.1957 January, “Notes and News: A Trestle Bridge in the Highlands”, in Railway Magazine, page 65. From the entry trestle bridge
  • As the situation in Iraq got boggy, the economy soured and the Bush Administration's popularity face-planted, folks wanted a place to vent.2009, Time, volume 173, numbers 8-16, page 46. From the entry HuffPo
  • This long strip of low-lying boggy woodland has been formed by earthwash from the land, and gravel from the wave action of the lake.1928, Thomas Hay, “THE SHORE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE ENGLISH LAKES; a paper read at the Meeting of the Society 12 March 1928”, in The…. From the entry earthwash
  • The ground in the immediate neighbourhood is somewhat boggy and treacherous, and a 'sarn' has doubtless always been necessary for traversing the bog.1913, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An Inventory of the Ancient…. From the entry sarn

Meaning of boggy

  1. adjective Having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.

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Questions about boggy in a sentence

How do you use boggy in a sentence?
Boggy is used as an adjective. For example: “The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.”
What is a short sentence with boggy?
“But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build on.”
What does boggy mean?
Boggy means having the qualities of a bog; i.e. dank, squishy, muddy, and full of water and rotting vegetation.

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