How do you use the word "bog" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "bog" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "bog": The skyscraper is expected to sink into the bog. It's back there somewhere, through the bog.

Bog Meaning

/bɔɡ/

Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAn area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.

nounAn area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking., An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.)

Sentence Examples

The skyscraper is expected to sink into the bog.

It's back there somewhere, through the bog.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The explorer's boots were swallowed by the soggy ____, requiring great effort to escape.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The land was a wet ____, making it very hard for us to walk across.

Word Origin & History

Inherited from Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos. The frequent use to form compounds regarding the animals and plants in such areas mimics Irish compositions such as bog-luachair (“bulrush, bogrush”). Its use for toilets is now often derived from the resemblance of latrines and outhouse cesspools to bogholes, but the noun sense appears to be a clipped form of boghouse (“outhouse, privy”), which derived (possibly via boggard) from the verb to bog, still used in Australian English. The derivation and its connection to other senses of "bog" remains uncertain, however, owing to an extreme lack of early citations due to its perceived vulgarity.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"They that ride so... fall into foule Boggs." — 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii], line 56:

"Certaine... places [in Ireland]... which of their softnes are vsually tearmed Boghes." — 1612, John Speed, chapter IV, in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, volume IV, page 143:

"Bog may by draining be made Meadow." — a. 1687, William Petty, Political Arithmetick:

"[W]e entered a region where the stream widened out and formed a considerable bog." — 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

"[Cedar Bog] is a living museum of plants that once were spread over a far wider area. It is the southernmost such alkaline bog in North America, and teachers take their classes there to study this unique natural area.[…]" — 1974 02, “Boys' Life”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 21:

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