bog oak

How to use bog oak in a sentence

• It was a little black crucifix carven of the bog oak by one of the brothers who was skilful at that work.

  A Sea Queen's Sailing | Charles Whistler

• It is a recumbent effigy of bog-oak, covered with wire network.

  The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland and Scotland: | Thomas W. Silloway

• A bog-oak carving represents a typical Irishman driving a "conthrairy pig," which is supposed to stand for Tim Harrington.

  Ireland as It Is | Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

• The wood has undergone chemical changes, has lost much of its moisture, and often become very hard, as in bog oak.

  The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight | J. Cecil Hughes

• Her hair was dead-black with the blackness of bog-oak root or of basalt.

  The Socialist | Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull