fen

Example Sentences

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The Sacketts’ property was connected to a fen and, thence, to the lake, via a “shallow subsurface flow” of moisture, the agency advised, making it subject to the 1972 Clean Water Act.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2022

Mammals like the red squirrel and water vole, birds like the curlew and plants such as the fen orchid squeezed out by loss of habitat and pollution.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2021

She found, about 15 inches underground, partially decayed roots, twigs and the cold moisture of a fen.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2020

I would give anything to have written his parody of overstrained journalistic writing: “Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.”

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2018

"There is the matter of the spoor, you see. Something came out of the fen for Gren- del's arm, and whatever it was that came took Unferth too."

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye