bog

Example Sentences

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Anything would be better than trotting out another bog standard pro sports salute to the troops that year.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026

Companies would theoretically also be able to avoid opposition from communities that don’t want data centers in their backyards and sidestep regulations that bog down construction on Earth.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

He noted that “holdover” is also used to describe peat bog fires that burn many feet below the surface for weeks or months, even under snowpack.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

“Punch” could easily have become a bog of pieties and earnest, uplifting lessons about the necessity of forgiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

When we came to the bog and I said I had to go home, she pretended to pout.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs