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Sentence Examples He added that he had not been aware that so many rivers had their source on Drehid bog. Board walks take walkers through bog and tussock up to a moraine ridge overlooking the Otira Valley. They bog down in the day-to-day administration of a small business and bemoan the lack of time to draw. They require a mosaic of heath, blanket bog and wetland, with rough grazing, shrubs and trees for cover. Also present are bog asphodel, deer grass and sedges such as slender sedge and bog sedge. Other creatures inhabiting the surface film of bog pools are pond skaters, water measurers and water crickets. The Consumer Financial Protection Agency can bog down any other agency by encumbering agency rules or policies. But bog myrtle is about to join the jet set of the shrub world. Intermittent, torrential rain showers turned the rutted, cratered road into a bog of red mud. In it grow such ferns as adder's tongue fern, bog fern, Christmas fern, crested fern, Goldie's fern, maidenhair fern, New York fern, ostrich fern, and spinulose woodfern. In recent years, the high level of bog being destroyed by cutting has raised environmental concerns. Much effort was put into creating satisfactory conclusions and making sure exposition did not bog down the pacing. Iron ore brought a measure of prosperity, and was available throughout the country, including bog iron. Fannyside Muir, to the south of the town, is part of the Slamannan plateau, an area of 183 hectares of lowland bog. The site was no more than a hovel in a bog which may have been used previously by religious hermits. The climate, geography, and environment of Finland favours bog and peat bog formation. The blanket bog further inland also provides a good habitat for breeding waders, such as Golden Plover, Dunlin and Snipe. The bog was affected by high floods, and dikes built on the bog proved to be very fragile. It is the dominant plant in most heathland and moorland in Europe, and in some bog vegetation and acidic pine and oak woodland. Lithuania experienced a drought in 2002, causing forest and peat bog fires. Show More Sentences The first known finds from the bog date from the 1830s, when a local farmer gave old swords and shields as toys to his children. Some of the discoveries from the bog were lost during the Second Schleswig War. There are also many bog bodies from this time in Denmark, Schleswig and southern Sweden. Noosemarks and skin piercing were evident and she had been thrown into a bog rather than buried or cremated. Iron made from bog ore will often contain residual silicates, which can form a glassy coating that imparts some resistance to rusting. The bog iron deposits of Northern and Northeastern Europe were created after the Ice Age ended, on postglacial plains. The road his army traveled later became known as the Ffordd y Saeson, the English Road, and leads through heath and bog towards the Dee. My friends dismissed him as a Kerry sheep thief and a bog Irish gombeen man. This week on The Amazing Prize Giveaway Show, the grand prize is 10,000 bog rolls! Acteon found the air hostess trying to pull on her damasse dress and realign cleavage in the gentleboys' bog. Weapons and horse trappings have been found in the bog at Llyn Cerrig Bach on Anglesey and are interpreted as votive offerings cast into a lake. It was found impossible to drain the bog at Chat Moss, and one of the men on the site, Robert Stannard suggested timber in a herring bone layout. Most of these landscapes are autumnal or early winter in season and show bleak, dank, water fringed bog or moor, loch and riverside. This was also the year of the mud, with the site suffering severe rainfalls which turned the entire site into a muddy bog. Rumsfield and Bush feared that a conventional invasion of Afghanistan could bog down as had happened to the Soviets and the British. One of the largest expanses of Atlantic blanket bog in Ireland is to be found in County Mayo. The bog acids, with pH levels similar to vinegar, conserve the human bodies in the same way as fruit is preserved by pickling. Most of the bog bodies discovered showed some aspects of decay or else were not properly conserved. The oldest bog body that has been identified is the Koelbjerg Man from Denmark, who has been dated to 8000 BCE, during the Mesolithic period. Many bog bodies show signs of being stabbed, bludgeoned, hanged or strangled, or a combination of these methods. Show More Sentences In the case of the Osterby Man found at Kohlmoor, near Osterby, Germany in 1948, the head had been deposited in the bog without its body. Some bog bodies, such as Tollund Man from Denmark, have been found with the rope used to strangle them still around their necks. However, a CT scan of Grauballe Man by Danish scientists determined his skull was fractured due to pressure from the bog long after his death. On various occasions throughout history, peat diggers have come across bog bodies. Records of such finds go back as far as the 17th century, and in 1640 a bog body was discovered at Shalkholz Fen in Holstein, Germany. Worsaae, who argued that the body was Iron Age in origin, like most bog bodies, and predated any historical persons by at least 500 years. The face of one bog body, Yde Girl, was reconstructed in 1992 by Richard Neave of Manchester University using CT scans of her head. Several bog bodies are notable for the high quality of their preservation and the substantial research by archaeologists and forensic scientists. For a more comprehensive list of bog body discoveries, see List of bog bodies. One of the major obstacles to be overcome was Chat Moss, a large bog that had to be crossed. The catchment area is a sheepfarm of rough grassland and sphagnum bog in the valley bottom and surrounding fellside. A fence runs along the ridge, a useful guide in mist and occasionally necessary for bog bouncing. Peat soils and blanket bog on the moors store carbon while high rainfall fills many reservoirs supplying water to the adjacent conurbations. On the unenclosed moorland, there are extensive areas of blanket bog on deep peat soils. In Canada, it has been estimated that new peat bog mass accumulates 60 times faster than the amount harvested each year. The Netherlands, for example, once had large areas of peatland, both fen and bog. It is a sedentary species, breeding across northern Eurasia in moorland and bog areas near to woodland, mostly boreal. This wide expanse of peat bog continues to be dangerous to walkers, especially after heavy rain. It rises in the southern half of Dartmoor National Park in an area of bog to the west of Ryder's Hill. The ghost hypnotized them, and they wandered into the mire, fell through the ice, and were sucked into the thick bog. Show More Sentences Common mosses were areas of bog where the right to dig peat for fuel were shared by neighbouring landowners. Full of bog, goes anywhere you want to go, don't pay for insurance, runs on the smell of an oily rag. The tree Lepidothamnus laxifolius is a high alpine specialist found in high-altitude bog communities and in scrub. The aerial shots were so sharp they could see every bog hole. In peat bog sediments, the Boreal is also recognized by its characteristic pollen zone. In Russia, bog ore was the principal source of iron until the 16th century, when the superior ores of Ural Mountains became available. The bog environment is acidic, with a low concentration of dissolved oxygen. In the acidic environment of the bog, a chemical reaction forms insoluble iron compounds which precipitate out. When a layer of peat in the bog is cut and pulled back using turf knives, pea sized nodules of bog iron can be found and harvested. Lake Massapoag in Massachusetts was drawn down by deepening the outlet channel in a search for bog iron. The success of the Saugus Iron Works, and the rapid depletion of the region's natural bog iron, led them. During the American Revolution, bog iron cannonballs were cast for the colonial forces. The gradual accumulation of decayed plant material in a bog functions as a carbon sink. There are many highly specialised animals, fungi and plants associated with bog habitat. In drier locations, evergreen trees can occur, in which case the bog blends into the surrounding expanses of boreal evergreen forest. The United Kingdom in its Biodiversity Action Plan establishes bog habitats as a priority for conservation. A layer of peat fills the deepest part of the valley, and a stream may run through the surface of the bog. In periglacial climates a patterned form of blanket bog may occur, known as a string bog. In the absence of disturbance from waves, the bog mat may eventually cover entire bays, or even entire small lakes. A cataract bog is a rare ecological community formed where a permanent stream flows over a granite outcropping. Show More Sentences A mesotrophic bog, also called a transitional peat bog, contains a moderate quantity of nutrients. One ancient artifact found in bogs in many places is bog butter, large masses of fat, usually in wooden containers. A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Unlike most ancient human remains, bog bodies have retained their skin and internal organs due to the unusual conditions of the surrounding area. The oldest known bog body is the skeleton of Koelbjerg Man from Denmark, who has been dated to 8000 BCE, during the Mesolithic period. The oldest fleshed bog body is that of Cashel Man, who dates to 2000 BCE during the Bronze Age. The newest bog bodies are those of soldiers killed in the Russian wetlands during the Second World War. The preservation of bog bodies in peat bogs is a natural phenomenon, and not the result of human mummification processes. As new peat replaces the old peat, the older material underneath rots and releases humic acid, also known as bog acid. Even after improved smelting technology made mined ores viable during the Middle Ages, bog ore remained important, particularly to peasant iron production, into modern times. The bog chemical environment involves a completely saturated acidic environment, where considerable concentrations of organic acids and aldehydes are present. Unlike many areas of moorland in the north of England, the moors here are not managed for grouse shooting and consist largely of rough grassland and peat bog. Yerba mansa is a bog plant with large leaves and pure white flowers. The vast majority of the bog bodies that have been discovered date from the Iron Age, a period of time when peat bogs covered a much larger area of northern Europe. The face of Tollundmanden, one of the best preserved bog body finds. It takes centuries for a peat bog to recover from disturbance. The clothing is believed to have decomposed while in the bog for so long. This leads to lower levels of CO2 storage than the original peat bog. They are found throughout the arctic, subarctic and temperate portions of the Northern Hemisphere in acid bog habitats, being particularly abundant in Arctic tundra regions. An increase in pollen and spores from wetland plants such as cattails, sphagnum, sedge and quillwort suggests that there was more moisture available at the bog site. Show More Sentences To further confuse matters, it was found in a bog in north Denmark. With the rise of antiquarianism in the 19th century, some people began to speculate that many of the bog bodies were not recent murder victims but were ancient in origin. In Wales, polecats were widely believed to migrate in large numbers every spring to the great peat bog of Tregaron to feed on the breeding frogs there. A quaking bog or schwingmoor is a form of bog occurring in wetter parts of valley bogs and raised bogs, and sometimes around the edges of acidic lakes. With the rise of modern archaeology in the early 20th Century, archeologists began to excavate and investigate bog bodies more carefully and thoroughly. It contains specialised plants such as bog asphodel, bog bean, cotton grass, ragged robin and marsh thistle and has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest. On 22 June, Dafydd and his younger son Owain ap Dafydd were captured at Nanhysglain, a secret hiding place in a bog by Bera Mountain to the south of Abergwyngregyn. The growth of blanket bog and the extensive clearing of woodland to facilitate farming are believed to be the main causes of deforestation during the following centuries. It is possible that some of the bog bodies recovered from peat bogs in northern Germany and Denmark and dated to the Iron Age were human sacrifices. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between 8000 BCE and the Second World War. The western shore however is characterised by broad tundra lowlands that are an extension of the Hudson Bay Lowlands and the vegetation is mostly muskeg bog. The gritstone and shale of the Dark Peak supports heather moorland and blanket bog environments, with rough sheep pasture and grouse shooting being the main land uses. Although, Stephenson usually gets the credit for this feat, it is believed that it was Locke who suggested the correct method for crossing the bog. Our lodger had our upstairs, use of the stove, our tap, and our bog. Litt had been last seen on the bog about 200 yards west of Raven Crag where he had been, with other, resting and watching the hounds in the valley below. Iron was extracted from bog iron in peat bogs and the first iron objects to be fabricated were needles and edged tools such as swords and sickles. From 1859 to 1863, archaeologist Conrad Engelhardt excavated the bog. This allows bog acids to saturate the tissues before decay can begin. Examples from Classical Literature Distension of the capsular ligament of the tibial tarsal joint with synovia is commonly known as bog spavin. Then after the bog and the potatoes, came funerals and holidays innumerable. There was no light in the cabin, which was a solitary one, standing on the edge of a bog. He recalled the scene in the bog, Colonel John's courage, and his thought for his servant. But Rita shuddered again, and begged that she might never hear of the bog again. The Ceanabhan, pronounced Kanovan, is the bog cotton, and the Monadan is a plant with a red berry found on marshy mountains. There are many varieties of bog moss, and some of them have now been put to practical use in our field hospitals. This is a beautiful plant growing, as Figure 172 shows, on the lower dead portion of the stems of bog moss or sphagnum. His coat collar was pulled up to his eyes, and a fur cap, with a sprig of bog myrtle in it, was drawn well down upon his brows. We left her standing upon the thin peninsula of firm, peaty soil which tapered out into the widespread bog. It's what the newspapers will call a great day for the bog of Allen. And the night was all wrapt in an odour of bog myrtle and flowers. A bellyful invariably of potatoes, and generally turf for fuel from a bog. On examining the dripping of some bog moss, I found a plenty of them. I did not hear a word from her about the bog of Ballynascraw. The growth of bog moss has played a large part in the formation of peat. Thus accoutered, bog and marsh and undergrowth had no terrors for him. The case is so hopeless, and I feel that I am wallowing in such a bog of nonsense, that I give up all idea of getting out, and abandon myself to my fate. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of bog? Words that rhyme with bog What is the past tense of bog? What is the plural of bog? What is the adverb for bog? What is the adjective for bog? What is the noun for bog? Translations for bog Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words boffo boffins boffing boffin boffed boff BOG bogan Bogan bogans bogarde bogart 3-letter Words Starting With b bo