Example sentences for: bog

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

  • , in the chapter on “Bodily Effluvia”) where, for example, john, jakes, bog, crapper are said to “tend to the dysphemistic,” whatever that means.

  • Hay poles as a term would never win a popularity contest with computer terminology, but lest we forget, they were poles used in pairs by two men, one out from with a pole in each hand, the other, holding the opposite ends, bringing up the rear, and carrying bales of hay cut by scythe from the hummocks of a bog.

  • Cree mashkek, Fox maskyägi grassy bog, muskeg > Muskogee

  • 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.

  • 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.


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