How to Use boggy in a Sentence

boggy

adjective

• An ancient worshiper stopped at the edge of a boggy area in modern-day Wales and looked at the spring.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
• Poison sumac is a shrub-like plant that grows in boggy areas.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 July 2023
• The air was boggy and smelled acrid with everything cast in a sepia-like haze as smoke from the wildfires still raging up in Canada rolled over the city.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
• Select types of cars—many of which had off-road wheels—were also able to navigate the boggy terrain.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
• Up until the 1700s, Waikiki was just a boggy area of land, where people lived, worked, and buried their families.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2019
• The ball also didn't fly over the crossbar because the surface at the Rose Bowl was disastrously boggy, bumpy, or dry.
  — SI.com, 13 May 2018
• The punishing route will take them through dense forest, boggy wetlands, and vast, trackless deserts.
  — April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2018
• The story of the Netherlands’ long struggles against excess water is written all over its boggy landscape.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Buildings were constructed over the river itself, combined with raising the boggy land of the flood plain with ashes and other wastes.
  — David N Lerner, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2019
• In the wild, boggy lands of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, a tundra blanket naturally insulates ice-rich permafrost.
  — Lisa Demer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2017
• There were little patches in town, on the boggy tundra next to the airport road or behind a little subdivision of newer housing.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
• Avoid wet or boggy growing areas because citronella plants may rot in soggy soil.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Apr. 2024
• But instead of beaches and saltwater marshes, woodcock are found where boggy, muddy areas meet with dense cover and young forests.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
• The Bexhill brain apparently beat the odds and made to the fossil stage because its original owner died in a boggy environment.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2016
• Here in the United Kingdom, some of the ferns suited to a very damp and boggy location include royal ferns, ostrich ferns, lady ferns, and sensitive ferns, to give a few examples.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 17 Feb. 2023
• The carnivorous plant then digests the insect, gaining nourishment that can be difficult to get from the nutrient-poor soil in its boggy home.
  — Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
• Ferns can be found to handle a range of environmental conditions, coping with everything from very damp and boggy wetland to dry shade.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 17 Feb. 2023
• And throughout testing across gravel, concrete, dirt, sand, and boggy terrain, the functionality measured up to the promise of all the bells and whistles included.
  — Samson McDougall, Health, 4 Aug. 2023
• As temperatures have increased and rain has gotten less predictable in Kenya, every part of Mount Kenya’s environment — from its mixed forests to its boggy heathlands and grasslands — has been touched.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• Nearby limestone and sandstone were ruled out as filler because crews worried such material would soon decay in the wet soil, returning the site to its boggy condition.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• With climate change and sea levels rising globally, Venice, originally founded on soft, boggy ground, finds itself in increasingly more trouble each year.
  — National Geographic, 13 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024