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• The edge of the woods led out onto a noisome, boggy fen, a paradise for mosquitos and small frogs.From the entry boggy
• Ings, glens, and fens of the Highlands.From the entry ing
• The paludic soils, coded "Pt," characterize peat accumulated in fen, transitional, or bog mire ecosystems.2002, Leon Etienne Parent, Piotr Ilnicki, Organic Soils and Peat Materials for Sustainable Agriculture, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry paludic
• Fen gather in clubhouses called slanshacks, "slan" meaning a biologically mutated superman.1955, Arthur Koestler, The Trail of the Dinosaur and Other Essays, page 143. From the entry slan
• Sad to relate, however, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen.1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life. From the entry slanshack
• Escaped from thicket and from fen at last he saw the tilth of men.1945, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, HarperCollins, published 2019, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry tilth
• Tom Spence is a dom fule and doesn't know a fen nightingale from a natterjack.1934, Neil Bell, Bredon and Sons, page 15. From the entry fen nightingale
• String bogs, also called patterned fens, occur in muskeg.2003, Richard J. Huggett, Fundamentals of Geomorphology, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 244. From the entry palsa
• The same snow lies over the fens and marshes and freezes Quixote's windmills to a standstill against the cindery Flemish sky.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry cindery
• Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils.1984, Herman W. Gabriel, Glossary of Landscape & Vegetation Ecology for Alaska, page 64, entry "lagg". From the entry rand
• An exultation of larks rose from the fen itself.1983, Robert Nye, Three Tales: Beowulf, Taliesin, Wishing Gold, Hamilton, page 42. From the entry exultation
• Fen was in an atrabilious mood.1946, Edumnd Crispin, The Moving Toyshop: A Detective Story, London: Victor Gollancz, →OCLC, page 40. From the entry atrabilious
• "There is in Britain a fen of unmeasured mickleness that begins from the river Granta, not far from the city which is called Grantaceaster.1905, Stopford Augustus Brooke, The history of early English literature. From the entry mickleness
• Three years ago, China’s congress adopted an antisecession law threatening to use military force against Taiwan if it declared independence, using fen lie for secession, or splittism.2008 April 27, William Safire, “Superdel”, in New York Times. From the entry antisecession
• I'm afraid that I've never met his second wife, Laura Brodian, as (like so many medical fen) I suffered FAFIAtion when I got stuck into building my practice.2005 January 2, SJ Doc, “Re: Frank Kelly Freas (1922-2005) R.I.P.”, in alt.fan.mike-jittlov (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry fafiation
• Without sinking into fens of cinemology, which properly belong in another section of this wilderness, one can say for openers that all three critics cross lines continuously in practice.1971, The New York Times Book Review, volume 76, page 42. From the entry cinemology

Meaning of fen

1. noun A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
2. noun Any swamp or mire (especially with negative connotations).
3. noun A unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan.

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Questions about fen in a sentence

How do you use fen in a sentence?

Fen is used as a noun and interjection. 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 fen?

“Fen was in an atrabilious mood.”

What does fen mean?

Fen means a type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.