Use "bog" in a sentence
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1. There was no visible stream here, just marsh and bog extending to the south as far as they could see
2. is a foreign land, is a body in the bog
3. In summer the meadows bloom with wildflowers, the rare ghost orchid and one-leaved bog orchid
4. Bog Walk is a tropical watershed forest, and another attraction is Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
5. A good rice field is a bog at all seasons, and at one season a bog covered with water
6. He successfully negotiated the edge during a brief lull in the storm, fell into a peat bog, cut the rope quickly to release the rocks, he clambered back to the bank
7. As we passed a bog, surrounded by a stand of alders, Philippos told me I must smear
8. But how could she? But later in his house, when they had dozed by the fire, he hadn't slept as much as Rosemary - he was used to cat-naps - and had spent most of the time awake, just looking at her, sleeping, sitting back straight on the big old couch with the knitted shawl around her; the last thing his Mother had knitted, for she was renowned for her knitting, before she finally took to her bed; the wools, in the muted colours of bog earth and heather with light touches of soft blue, like the morning sky reflecting on pale cornflowers
9. I started to bog down in the sticky goo and he gained ground on me, his hissing breath stirring the hairs on the back of my neck
10. In the iffy spring weather, there was a tendency for the aircraft to run fine up to five or ten thousand feet, then for some reason; above that they would bog out
11. Crouching low in the runnels of the bog, he ran until the sweat blinded his eyes
12. The dragon named Bog had worked on this
13. “See how Bog and his family have suffered through
14. I was too scared to use the toilets at the hostel we were staying in because there was only one bare dirty bog and it would have been obvious it was me
15. Early afternoon they reached the top of the pass, negotiated their way around the bog which sourced the stream, and started a gradual climb leading to a heavily wooded area
16. He stood looking over the bog while I walked up and down the row, taking pictures
17. Treadwell’s sheep grazed and the bog where his Highland cattle wandered
18. He slowly waved it over the bog around him
19. What do ye want with my bog? Oh hell
20. “Aye? What does my bog have that brings ye here?”
21. I think there may be more in the bog
22. I knew that I would stay and dig up the whole bog alone if needed
23. Maybe in time, time I didn’t have, the hilltop would be protected, but I could lose this bog
24. Dew-covered and shivering I said, “Tim, I’m in the bog
25. Suddenly, the same intense grief that hit me when I first saw the body in the bog flooded over me again
26. My instincts told me the ashes I found and the man in the bog should be together
27. I gave the bronze bowl and its contents to Andy, to be displayed with the bog man
28. “We found him in a bog that was once a sacred lake, the Black Lake according to local legend
29. Damaged roof tiles hadn"t kept out recent heavy rains and the interior was a bog
30. How do you offload a million dollar mansion that"s splitting at the seams as it sinks into a bog? With great difficulty
31. This nauseating bog would take generations to recover anything resembling ecological health
32. In most of those places too, a careless visitor could stumble into a foetid bog and be overcome by poisonous fumes
33. just nearly lost my trainer in a bog but that should
34. ‘But you might not have sent it if we had looked at the photo and just told you it was bog standard issue, so there’d be no further interest in it,’ said DS Burrows
35. "The mud! In the bog!"
36. Meme felt herself splashing in a bog of hesitation from which she could only be rescued, as had occurred in her dreams, by that man smelling of grease whom she could barely see in the shadows
37. The enchanted region explored by José Arcadio Buendía in the days of the founding, where later on the banana plantations flourished, was a bog of rotting roots, on the horizon of which one could manage to see the silent foam of the sea
38. Unlike Aureliano José who tried to drown that image in the bloody bog of war, he tried to keep it alive in the sink of concupiscence while he entertained his mother with the endless fable of his pontifical vocation
39. Do the patent attorneys and patent courts have the advancement of civilization bogged down in court? Bog down challenges to conservative environmental practices instead (and clean up the planet with court delays)
40. She’s having a chicken bog next Saturday; you’ll welcome to come
41. “I’m afraid we have other plans with Mother and Daddy,” Bobby Dan declined gracefully though there was a faint glimmer of eagerness to accept at the mention of a chicken bog, especially when prepared by the woman who had won first place in competition at the county fair last year
42. means, will bog you
43. either side of them was a bubbling, brackish soupy bog
44. Anybody who is down there in the bog cannot be
45. The mournful howling of the souls trapped in the bog below dampened their spirits
46. the creature that calls that bog its home, Rhone
47. partially off of its back and into the bog with a splash
48. With those last words, Sensei's face changed, and he said calmly, articulating each word, “Explain to me how a man drowning in a bog can save a man standing on the bank of the river?”
49. At first Galinda simply lived wild in the forest bordering the village, foraging nuts and berries and grubs and sheltering in caves or hollows, but eventually she built a large hovel of tree trunks and slabs of peat torn from the nearby bog
50. It's a perfect bog of sentiment she's sunk in now
1. After an excruciatingly difficult fifteen minutes in which she tied herself in several knots, she gave up trying to explain stone technology only to get horribly bogged down virtually immediately in the various historical differences that had affected modern day cultures … comparative history had not been her strong point
2. The negotiations got increasingly bogged down, and there
3. "Bogged down" said Rosecare as she helped her mother sort out the cups and plates
4. Because seriously, you don’t want to get bogged down in this
5. “No not really the raiding party didn’t get in they bogged down before the German wire which by the way is nearly all in tact
6. It couldn"t last, however, not when the entire Muslim world became bogged down in Sharia and its derivatives
7. The road was originally going to be developed into some sort of a by-pass with access to the Inter-state, but that idea got bogged down in a red tape legal action at city hall
8. We have here our stalwart band of adventurers, bogged down in hopeless exposition and conjecture
9. So with this being said, please don’t get bogged down in the
10. They are bogged down in a circular trench, going round and round, the dreams that once were are no more
11. Rather than penetrating and shattering his Shields as they’d done to his thinner and harder ones, Mark’s hair-thin Force bolts were bogged down and absorbed before they could reach Zarkog’s black and silver scales
12. I noticed the tractor had its front wheels bogged down
13. It’s difficult to imagine anything less like the light-hearted fun and pleasure of amateur dramatic clubs, where rehearsals get bogged down in laughter and silly games, and acting is just a pastime – an enjoyable way to spend a night with friends of similar bent
14. When we bogged down they were out there heaving and pushing as hard as I
15. I have a tendency to get lost in research and since I was writing about a lifestyle I knew inside and out I didn't get bogged down in research
16. So with this being said, please don’t get bogged down in the categories;
17. Her favorite subject was, of course, English, and she hoped to become a writer someday, but was forever bogged down by her appearance, and that in turn stunted her growth
18. Thus, bogged down by their rigmarole, they failed to imagine life in any other way than the way they were used to by then and thus they kept the course to acquire wealth
19. As he set out to walk into the waiting Ambassador, he felt as though the burden of freedom bogged him down
20. ‘But, then can’t I understand? Well, what a sensitive soul he turned out to be! How he hugged Shanti’s statue as though to solace her soul! What a way to pay homage to the memory of the woman he had wronged! Won’t I know what it took me to control my impulse to take him into my arms, more so, when he was in tears? If only I could have embraced him endearingly then, what a solace I would have given him! And what a nice feeling it was to caress his back! Bogged down by his sentiment of guilt, maybe, he would have missed the warmth of my affection for him
21. ‘Human proclivity is a tenuous thing, isn’t it?,’ she contemplated, bogged down by self-doubt
22. Joseph spearheaded strong attacks on the Soviet lines but by February the whole of the South Army were trapped in the Korsin Pocket bogged down by thick mud and advancing Soviet troops
23. The point the young Israeli man was making in Tamera was that rather than becoming bogged down in someone else‘s pain and suffering, and feeling that pain and suffering himself, he decided his only job was to be happy (to provide others with the hope and the inspiration and the model of how their lives could be different)
24. GNU Project as "bogged down" despite the success of the
25. The full bitterness of defeat then struck Hausser: His Führer was gone; German forces had bogged down everywhere; the Luftwaffe was as good as destroyed and Germany now had to deal with a nearly invulnerable enemy
26. Do the patent attorneys and patent courts have the advancement of civilization bogged down in court? Bog down challenges to conservative environmental practices instead (and clean up the planet with court delays)
27. The Americans assured themselves that Japan was virtually bankrupt and exhausted from being bogged down in China
28. Combat vehicles were bogged down and the beach masters failed miserably
29. There were two major reasons why the Allied advance had bogged down; there was the tenacity of the Germans plus their skillful use of the terrain
30. When, therefore, a fresh crisis arose in autumn 1942 after the German offensive had become bogged down at Stalingrad, Hitler again thought success lay in clinging on at all costs to what he already possessed
31. Don't get bogged down writing perfect copy to send to your newsletter, take the copy provided to you by the CB and other vendors, copy, paste and send
32. So with this being said, please don"t get bogged down in the categories; they are merely
33. This was the reason why the Christian church had had got bogged into a literary trail, whilst the theory of evolution would keep presenting wider missing links to trace out our final genes
34. ‘Oh, how concerned you both are,’ said Roopa bogged down by tears of joy, ‘Now, I can live in joy and die fulfilled
35. ‘Let me see if it’s workable,’ said Rami Reddy, bogged down by his failure to come up with something on his own, but not with any idea to examine what Sathyam might bring on to the table
36. ‘How I wish you did,’ said Sandhya bogged down with tears
37. “As I was bogged down with that thought, the negativity of it began to bother me; I was alive to the fact that the seeds of liaisons sprout in the stilted minds of the disaffected spouses, and if Ruma were to take a lover, the slight apart, won’t the scandal be scary
38. You also can use this exercise whenever you have bogged down or lost interest in working toward your goal
39. After a while the exit would be so bogged down with bodies they agency would have to clear them with a bulldozer to let more out just to get mowed down
40. The engine bogged down, not ready to run yet, so he quickly let off the throttle
41. become bogged in the mud
42. soaring architecture of Ayodhya, it was not bogged down by the boring standardisation
43. needed to without being bogged down by century old
44. We are not here to get bogged down in a big debate about the
45. So don't get bogged down thinking that Balance is some
46. bogged down, get in there with parallel skis at walking speed, and
47. where, rather than getting bogged down in a big debate about how, especially when
48. Lester had good news, the rest of the group were thoroughly bogged on current projects
49. It was all part of the general sleaze that Egypt was bogged in
50. The wains struggled through the mud, though we all ran out to help, getting bogged, while the third made it to the hall door
1. Was she simply working for herself, like the Swede? But to what end? Did she really want to find Andy as much as he did? Thoughts like these - and some even worse - tugged at his mind like ropes, bogging him down in a spiral with no real answers, no clear exit
2. This book is an opportunity to give new traders a head start in a simple and easy-to-understand format without bogging them down with 300 pages of filler words
3. Meanwhile my host told me his story, how hard he worked "bogging" for a neighboring farmer, turning up a meadow with a spade or bog hoe at the rate of ten dollars an acre and the use of the land with manure for one year, and his little broad-faced son worked cheerfully at his father's side the while, not knowing how poor a bargain the latter had made
4. I told him, that as he worked so hard at bogging, he required thick boots and stout clothing, which yet were soon soiled and worn out, but I wore light shoes and thin clothing, which cost not half so much, though he might think that I was dressed like a gentleman (which, however, was not the case), and in an hour or two, without labor, but as a recreation, I could, if I wished, catch as many fish as I should want for two days, or earn enough money to support me a week
5. Before I had reached the pond some fresh impulse had brought out John Field, with altered mind, letting go "bogging" ere this sunset
1. Though when he finally arrived in Morthal as the sunlight melted into the bogs, he could not suppress shivers and a desire to turn his spurs back to the east
2. Years before, Frederic gave his daughter Alice a parcel of land in southeastern Massachusetts for cranberry bogs and he built her a home
3. the putrid swamps and bogs with ruthless efficiency and was the
4. hibiscus, the only smell was a pong, a very flatulent pong at that, for the ground was a mass of swampy bogs and bubbling gas
5. Only people who have tried to walk across it in any direction would have some conception of its immensity, and of the numerous pitfalls to be encountered in the form of bogs and burns
6. It competed with the bogs moving on the surface of an eight-lane superhighway in Siberia
7. The few I have there now are sure footed and will be canny of the bogs
8. and out of the bogs until they both blend into the
9. It seemed the wily predator considered his pursuers lost or dead as the trail avoided the serious bogs and deep water
10. the bogs together, now!”
11. Regarding growing them in bogs, cranberries do not grow in the water, they float
12. Colleague Isaac's machine, having only rear-wheel drive, gets stuck in one of the bogs
13. Bucca had said that the bogs were known as the Mire
14. Maggot flies out of the bogs
15. in the bogs, with a sigh…
16. With turf from the midland bogs
17. It was idyllic: and Father Conmee reflected on the providence of the Creator who had made turf to be in bogs whence men might dig it out and bring it to town and hamlet to make fires in the houses of poor people
18. After climbing down from the china wall the travelers found themselves in a disagreeable country, full of bogs and marshes and covered with tall, rank grass
19. It passed so swiftly that we were unable to say what it was; but if it were a deer, as was claimed by Lord John, it must have been as large as those monstrous Irish elk which are still dug up from time to time in the bogs of my native land
20. The marshes and bogs had spread wider and wider on either side
21. the bogs and pools
22. "Which leaves only the bogs for criminal relief and drowned in the bargain
23. "You must admit that the various bogs are the one place the Church puts no dainty toe
24. "Now, as we waste our tongues and ruin our nervous complexions, the moon is about to rise and the empty lands and hungry bogs await
25. In a grand inquest, should we not bike on out to peg and string the bogs for once and all, full of brave blood and booze, to make a permanent chart, map the hostile and innocent-looking flats, test the sinkages, and come back with the sure knowledge that behind Dooley's farm is a field in which if you do not move fast, you sink at the rate of two or three inches per minute? Then beyond, Leary's pasture in which his own cows have the devil's time grazing quick enough to survive the unsteady turf and live on the road
26. She was stranded for almost a week while her crew searched bogs of ashes for the last scattered trees
27. " So it is with the bogs and quicksands of society; but he is an old boy that knows it
28. But the veterans of the army, who have already learned, in the bogs of Pultusk and the ice-fields of Eylau, to brave the climate, hope to escape this time with the same good luck
29. When, by circuitous roads, through bogs and forests, he overtook Napoleon with a handful of men, and the Duke of Eckmühl began to excuse his conduct, Ney merely replied—“I have not accused your Grace of anything
30. He told them all about his position and his work in the peat bogs, whence he was now returning home
31. It is true, that the water standing in ponds will prevent the timber from growing; but the difference is readily observed between prairies, properly so called, and those bogs
