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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.


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