bog in
Britishverb
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to start energetically on a task
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to start eating; tuck in
Example Sentences
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But attracting the number of insects required to populate the third largest blanket bog in Northern Ireland could take as long as six years.
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025
Vittrup Man is the nickname of a Stone Age skeleton recovered from a peat bog in Northwest Denmark, dating to between 3300-3100 BC.
From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024
When a family cutting peat for fuel unearthed a mysterious body in a Danish bog in 1950, they assumed the well-preserved corpse was a local murderer’s latest victim.
From National Geographic • Feb. 6, 2024
They represent the range of environments into which human effects are etched: a peat bog in Poland, the ice of the Antarctic Peninsula, a bay in Japan, a coral reef off the Louisiana coast.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2022
One is the remarkable alder-wood shield found 10 feet deep in a bog in 1863 at Annadale, County Leitrim.
From The Bronze Age in Ireland by Coffey, George
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