Example sentences for: bog

How can you use “bog” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nothing like him in Bosch or Breugel, nothing so denatured as to resemblenot a semblance of a human facebut the substance of some form made and then unmade, or like a lump of human butter excavated from a bog.

  • While toilet and lavatory have discarded their original meanings, terms such as bog retained their original meanings (a marshy place) as well as being understood in Britain as a slang synonym for a toilet; it achieved an entry in Hotten's dictionary as early as 1864 as a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.

  • In such places, too, is found bog iron , sometimes concentrated enough to deflect compasses.

  • A single bomb jettisoned by a fleeing German bomber during the 1939-45 war plopped into a remote bog, scaring the living daylights out of a nesting moorhen, but that was about all.

  • But the film doesn't bog down in loathing (self- or otherwise) the way Allen's last work, Celebrity (1998), did.


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