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    Use "peaty" in a sentence

    peaty example sentences

    peaty


    1. ‘This peaty soil means lots won’t grow but evolution has ensured that plants you’d never expect to find on peat have evolved ways of coping with it


    2. Suddenly the path became an uncertain, narrow causeway edged by threatening tussocks of grass, the sludgy pools between them sucking mouths edged with rotting ferny teeth, just waiting for her to fall into them, to be lost for eternity in their peaty brown depths


    3. Ted pours a regular measure this time and, instead of gulping it down, he stares into the glass, savouring the colour and peaty aroma


    4. Stuart was now in a wide semicircle of moorland, with a brown peaty river running down towards a massive lake as radius, and the high hills forming the northern circumference


    5. The huge shadow finished rooting the moist, peaty soil at the edge of the palmetto flat and vapidly headed back to the cool depths of the hammock to lie up during the intense heat of the day


    6. With high hopes we struck across the peaty, russet moor, intersected with a thousand sheep paths, until we came to the broad, light-green belt which marked the morass between us and Holdernesse


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    "peaty" definitions

    of or pertaining to or of the nature of peat