How to Use boggy in a Sentence
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Poison sumac is a shrub-like plant that grows in boggy areas.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 July 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The punishing route will take them through dense forest, boggy wetlands, and vast, trackless deserts.
—April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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