How to Use bog in a Sentence

bog

noun
Definition of bognext
Synonyms for bognext
  • The walls were submerged in the bog when the climate cooled 5,000 years ago.
    — Ed O’Loughlin, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Allow one hour to walk the trail and tour the quaking bog.
    — Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2023
  • That’s what keeps Heckscher in swamps and bogs at night.
    — Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
  • Lots of poplar, lots of aspen, lots of black spruce, but there’s also a lot of bog in there, a lot of swamp.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The album as a whole starts with some catchy melodies, takes you on a journey through the bog, and ends in a darker place.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The best pamphlets could draw clarity from chaos like—well, like a body from a bog.
    — Michelle Nijhuis, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
  • This process included using boats and nets to travel through the swamps and collect the berries from the bog.
    — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Many modern four-wheel-drive trucks never see a mud bog or a rocky stream bed in their lives.
    — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 22 June 2020
  • The museum is filled to the brim with bracelets, swords, and other valuables that have been retrieved from the bogs.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The entire bog measures 70 by 30 miles — more than a million acres.
    — John Reinan, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • But as the Ice Age drew to a close, bogs and shrubs began encroaching on their habitat.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • It is restricted to low bogs where its roots are bathed in water all year long.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The Glen Affric tartan was discovered in a peat bog in the Scottish Highlands in the 1980s.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Last winter, Te Poel was guiding a group of Floridians through the bog.
    — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Heavy mosquito swarms and snake dens also were abundant in the bog.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2022
  • The fabric was found almost 40 years ago in a peat bog — a type of wetland — in the Glen Affric valley, 15 miles west of Loch Ness.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Tollund Man, dating to the fifth century B.C. and dredged from a Danish peat bog in 1950, was hanged.
    — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Getting stuck out at night while cross-country skiing, or getting the car mired in an Alaskan bog.
    — Christian McMahon, Outside Online, 18 June 2021
  • But peat comes from peat bogs—unique wetland ecosystems which should not be disturbed.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Sphagnum bogs, rocky plateaus, and huckleberry plains give way to some 47 miles of trails.
    — Condé Nast, Bon Appétit, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Ireland has less than 0.5 percent of the earth’s land surface but up to 2.6 percent of its blanket bog.
    — Ed O'Loughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Our skin, and our shoes, never dry out and we are preserved like those ancient bog bodies.
    — Lizzy Acker, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
  • And then, of course, there are those who don’t think those bog-dwelling little berries belong anywhere near poultry.
    — Sunset Magazine, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Remember, this is all still considered to be part of a mammoth wave III in the bog picture.
    — Ramki Ramakrishnan, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Also known as peat moss, sphagnum mosses carpet the ground in marshes, moors and peat bogs.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Bears, moose, and wolves roamed, circling its unusually dry lakes, bogs, rivers, and creeks.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Back on the bog at Beluga, Alaska, there are no concerns about crowds of people.
    — Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The park is a stretch of thriving green valleys and peat bogs, and close-cropped moorland that attracts shooting parties in the autumn.
    — Jo Rodgers, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2023
  • After the humans arrived, Fred stayed in his lightless bog for millennia as the land was worked above, the forests shaped by fire and the fields sowed with corn, beans, and squash.
    — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • As Heckscher stood in the dark bog, vehicles grumbled down a nearby road.
    — Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'bog.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: