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• She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil.From the entry mix up
• The soft peat was springy under her feet.From the entry springy
• Only about 25% of Scotch whiskies have any peat smoke character at all.2021, Margarett Waterbury, Scotch: A Complete Introduction to Scotland's Whiskies. From the entry peat smoke
• In areas of peat soils, bald cypress dominates, and in marl soils, pond cypress dominates.2016 November 3, Thomas E. Lodge, The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem, Fourth Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 99. From the entry pond cypress
• Then creelfuls of darker peat, broken smaller, were just piled inside.2014, Ian Stephen, “Torcuil’s Olman”, in A Book of Death and Fish, Glasgow: Saraband, →ISBN, book 1 (Migrations), page 55. From the entry creelful
• Peat plateaux are larger landforms formed by the coalescence of palsas.2003, Richard J. Huggett, Fundamentals of Geomorphology, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 244. From the entry palsa
• 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
• He's ill with a tissick in his chest — got it cutting peat, my mother says.1920, Eden Phillpotts, Miser's Money, page 52. From the entry tissick
• The thick mat of dead plants forms sphagnum moss and peat, which is where we get our peat moss.2019 February 19, Sincere Humphrey, Freshwater Microbiology, Scientific e-Resources, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry bog
• The chemical composition of peat smoke is very complex.2014, Graham Stewart, Inge Russell, Whisky: Technology, Production and Marketing, page 58. From the entry peat smoke
• Each step in the soft peat is uncertain.2001, Richard Dwight Porcher, Douglas Alan Rayner, A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina, University of South Carolina, page 95. From the entry pocosin
• The banksides, above normal water level, were dressed with a layer of moss peat and seeded with a mixture of grasses.1997, J. M. Caffrey, Philip R.F. Barrett, Kevin J. Murphy, Philip Max Wade, Management and ecology of freshwater plants. From the entry bankside
• 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
• 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
• And when I am hungry, said MacK, they bring me the salmons of Argyll smoked over peat of the Hebrides, and a glass of Laphroaig.2003, Todd McEwen, Who Sleeps With Katz, Granta, published 2005, page 239. From the entry Laphroaig
• Today we have a dozen chickenless counties, and if fires are not checked in the peat lands, we shall end with a chickenless state.1999, Aldo Leopold, J. Baird Callicott, Eric T. Freyfogle, For the health of the land: previously unpublished essays and other writings. From the entry chickenless
• The report also found that kok-saghyz required a fertile soil and was especially adaptable to organic soils such as mucks and peats.1997, David Eugene Conrad, The Land We Cared For--: A History of the Forest Service's Eastern Region. From the entry koksaghyz
• An analysis was made of the mixture of active bacterized peat and soil at the commencement of incubation as well as at the end.1915, New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, volume 9, page 23. From the entry bacterize
• This vast land-art and sculpture park is on a former cutaway bog – “cutaway” being the term for a bog where all the commercial peat has been extracted.2025 March 29, “‘Thanks to the bogs, life will continue. Just not ours’”, in Irish Times, Ireland. From the entry cutaway
• The author uses the term "moos" (mossland) for "hochmoor" and defines it as an area with at least 50 cm. of peat consisting of Sphagnum or some substitute.1916, Frederic Edward Clements, Plant Succession: An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation, page 268. From the entry mossland
• The winter snow has collected amongst the eroded peat hags and is being actively reshaped into deep dunes and linear ripples by the strong winds whipping across the summit ridge.2023 October 12, Mike Billett, Peat and Whisky: The Unbreakable Bond, Saraband, →ISBN. From the entry hag
• This can be done by combining a bushel of peat moss, a bushel of vermiculite, one 3-inch flowerpotful of lime, and two 3-inch flowerpotsful of rock phosphate and mixing thoroughly.1983, Geri Harrington, “A Gardener’s Guide and Glossary”, in Cash Crops for the Thrifty Gardener, Perigee Books, published 1984, →ISBN…. From the entry flowerpotful

Meaning of peat

1. noun Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
2. noun A pet, a darling; a woman.

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Questions about peat in a sentence

How do you use peat in a sentence?

Peat is used as a noun. For example: “She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil.”

What is a short sentence with peat?

“Each step in the soft peat is uncertain.”

What does peat mean?

Peat means soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.