How to Use bog in a Sentence

bog

1 of 2 noun

• The walls were submerged in the bog when the climate cooled 5,000 years ago.
  — Ed O’Loughlin, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• Allow one hour to walk the trail and tour the quaking bog.
  — Staff Report, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2023
• That’s what keeps Heckscher in swamps and bogs at night.
  — Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
• Lots of poplar, lots of aspen, lots of black spruce, but there’s also a lot of bog in there, a lot of swamp.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• The album as a whole starts with some catchy melodies, takes you on a journey through the bog, and ends in a darker place.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 7 Mar. 2023
• The best pamphlets could draw clarity from chaos like—well, like a body from a bog.
  — Michelle Nijhuis, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• This process included using boats and nets to travel through the swamps and collect the berries from the bog.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2023
• Many modern four-wheel-drive trucks never see a mud bog or a rocky stream bed in their lives.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 22 June 2020
• The museum is filled to the brim with bracelets, swords, and other valuables that have been retrieved from the bogs.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2024
• The entire bog measures 70 by 30 miles — more than a million acres.
  — John Reinan, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• But as the Ice Age drew to a close, bogs and shrubs began encroaching on their habitat.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• It is restricted to low bogs where its roots are bathed in water all year long.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2023
• The Glen Affric tartan was discovered in a peat bog in the Scottish Highlands in the 1980s.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• Last winter, Te Poel was guiding a group of Floridians through the bog.
  — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
• Heavy mosquito swarms and snake dens also were abundant in the bog.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2022
• The fabric was found almost 40 years ago in a peat bog — a type of wetland — in the Glen Affric valley, 15 miles west of Loch Ness.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023
• Tollund Man, dating to the fifth century B.C. and dredged from a Danish peat bog in 1950, was hanged.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• Getting stuck out at night while cross-country skiing, or getting the car mired in an Alaskan bog.
  — Christian McMahon, Outside Online, 18 June 2021
• But peat comes from peat bogs—unique wetland ecosystems which should not be disturbed.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 16 Mar. 2023
• Sphagnum bogs, rocky plateaus, and huckleberry plains give way to some 47 miles of trails.
  — Condé Nast, Bon Appétit, 14 Mar. 2023
• Ireland has less than 0.5 percent of the earth’s land surface but up to 2.6 percent of its blanket bog.
  — Ed O'Loughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• Our skin, and our shoes, never dry out and we are preserved like those ancient bog bodies.
  — Lizzy Acker, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
• And then, of course, there are those who don’t think those bog-dwelling little berries belong anywhere near poultry.
  — Sunset Magazine, 12 Nov. 2022
• Remember, this is all still considered to be part of a mammoth wave III in the bog picture.
  — Ramki Ramakrishnan, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Also known as peat moss, sphagnum mosses carpet the ground in marshes, moors and peat bogs.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
• Bears, moose, and wolves roamed, circling its unusually dry lakes, bogs, rivers, and creeks.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
• Back on the bog at Beluga, Alaska, there are no concerns about crowds of people.
  — Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
• The park is a stretch of thriving green valleys and peat bogs, and close-cropped moorland that attracts shooting parties in the autumn.
  — Jo Rodgers, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2023
• After the humans arrived, Fred stayed in his lightless bog for millennia as the land was worked above, the forests shaped by fire and the fields sowed with corn, beans, and squash.
  — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
• They can be found on all continents and are classified into bogs, fens and swamps.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024

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bog

2 of 2 verb

• There's a lot going in our world, and in the bubble that can bog you down a little bit.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• Soft sand can bog the wheels down, and mud and dirt that cakes onto wheels will turn your car into a mess.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 15 Sep. 2020
• The Aztecs like to muddy the waters and finally were able to bog the game down to their liking in the second half.
  — John Marshall, ajc, 4 Apr. 2023
• The Orioles don’t bog themselves down in those details.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• Did Chicago figure out a way to bog the Bucks down, or was that just typical Game 1 rust?
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022
• The world doesn't need another Lost, where piles of plot obfuscate what made the show thrilling in the first place and bog it down in resolving mysteries.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 25 Jan. 2021
• Sometimes that stuff bogs things down and overcomplicates something that's just fun.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 May 2023
• The real issue is that on high traffic travel days (or worse, if there’s a weather delay) the connection might bog down.
  — José Adorno, BGR, 7 Nov. 2022
• With this transparency, both will be aware of your schedule and conditions and will be more mindful not to bog you down with extra demands.
  — Expert Panel, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• Having that single focus also helps filter out the distractions that can otherwise bog founders down to the point of stymieing progress.
  — Matt Carbonara, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• What stood out was how Ohio State treated every individual play as a chance to bog down a struggling Notre Dame offense.
  — Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2022
• The couple worried that using a credit card to travel to the East Coast would leave an evidence trail that could bog them down in litigation or cost them their right to practice medicine.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 20 June 2023
• Such cash flow disruptions can snag financing or cost them drivers — at a time when there is a nationwide shortage — and, ultimately, bog down mail service.
  — Washington Post, 9 June 2021
• After the initial flurry of twists, the tale does bog down in the middle, giving way to Anthony’s lawyer and the prosecutor in the case trying to find a path that feels like justice given all the extenuating circumstances.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 9 Aug. 2022
• Densely technical discussions often bog down over the very definition of gain of function.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 14 June 2021
• Based on the comic arc by writer Jason Aaron, this is a fantastic subversion for Marvel, which so often casts great performers only to bog them down with thankless love interest roles.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 5 July 2022
• Tools that automate manual and repetitive processes for the day-to-day tasks that can bog you down, like invoicing, scheduling and follow-ups, can help free valuable time to focus more on the activities that fuel growth.
  — Clate Mask, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• Those factions attempted to bog things down by filing multiple amendments, all unsuccessful, to change the legislation.
  — Laura Litvan, Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2023
• Instead, seven additional hours, much of it reiterating the same beats, bog down the aspects that work and leave an overall unsatisfying impression.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 22 Sep. 2022
• At other times, though, directorial choices severely bog the production down.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
• What if the polarization, paranoia, conspiracism, and hopelessness that bog us down have a more holistic origin than structural malfunctions or individual malfeasance?
  — Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
• Despite his reputation for gaffes, Biden himself has been astonishingly disciplined; the administration has largely ignored right-wing attempts to bog him down in culture war nonsense.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2021
• Republicans have argued that such measures were wasteful, inefficient and would bog down federal projects, in addition to cutting into companies’ profits and adding to inflation.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• However, several bureaucratic fulfillments may bog down workflow procedures.
  — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• There's a lot going in our world, and in the bubble that can bog you down a little bit.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• Soft sand can bog the wheels down, and mud and dirt that cakes onto wheels will turn your car into a mess.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 15 Sep. 2020
• The Aztecs like to muddy the waters and finally were able to bog the game down to their liking in the second half.
  — John Marshall, ajc, 4 Apr. 2023
• The Orioles don’t bog themselves down in those details.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• Did Chicago figure out a way to bog the Bucks down, or was that just typical Game 1 rust?
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022
• The world doesn't need another Lost, where piles of plot obfuscate what made the show thrilling in the first place and bog it down in resolving mysteries.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 25 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024