boggy
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"It's not really cross country if it isn't boggy."
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
"All of this open water is down to the beavers," Peter Burgess of the Devon Wildlife Trust tells me as we splash our way through the boggy land.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025
Other revellers took the boggy conditions it in their stride - dancing in the mud and holding karaoke parties.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2023
It took 60 years but a postulator from the Vatican finally came to Richard, a lonesome patch of boggy farmland in southern Louisiana’s rice belt, last December.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
The ground grew soft, and in places boggy; springs appeared in the banks, and soon they found themselves following a brook that trickled and babbled through a weedy bed.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
"There'll be a real variety of species," Glover added, explaining that the "wetter and boggier" landscape will see "more wading birds."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Large areas are becoming wetter and boggier, while native megaherbs such as Pleurophyllum and Stilbocarpa are shrinking back.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
That puts L.A. ahead of boggier metropolises such as Atlanta — the most mosquito-infested city for the previous seven years — Washington and Dallas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2021
They often dominate boggier soils that others can't endure; sometimes they're interspersed with a few mountain hemlocks and shore pine trees.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2012
"You have been a boggier ever," Antony tells Cleopatra, and the same might be said of this drama.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems like the wettest, boggiest slope ever, with scores of crisscrossing rainwater runnels, turning everything into a churn of mud and sheep droppings.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2018
The river-bed, too, was then in its boggiest state.
From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Carson, Thomas
Several ways present themselves, and whichever the traveller takes he will think that he has taken the boggiest.
From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by Hart, H. C.
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