bog

The path eventually becomes a dirty track and their car sinks into a great big muddy bog, and finally two people turn up who inform them that the old man is demented and the sawmill has been out of operation for years.

For example, when a bog was converted to farmland or someone dug a drainage ditch, it’s not necessarily the case that anyone recorded it.

By the time I arrive at a frozen marsh where the trail crosses some bog bridges made of wooden beams, I feel like a slab of meat in a North Face marinade bag.

These sturdy boots hit at your lower calf, which means they keep your pant bottoms dry but don’t make you feel like you’re about to hit up a cranberry bog.

The aerial shots were so sharp they could see every bog hole.

Whoever can stay on offense and avoid the gaffe or the policy bog will have the upper hand in the debate.

The Consumer Financial Protection Agency can bog down any other agency by encumbering agency rules or policies.

Intermittent, torrential rain showers turned the rutted, cratered road into a bog of red mud.

Over the bogs and through the marshes, the madness of despair within him, he heeded not the deep ditches and the bog-pools.

Hope had gone, dreams were unreal and vanishing as the mist that crawled along the bog-pools at night.

Our trenches are a perfect bog; I shall find some difficulty in getting round them to-night even if we are not driven out of them.

I strove to creep out into the bog, seeking a footing, but the swamp quaked and the smooth surface trembled like jelly in a bowl.

He shook himself out of this depressing bog of reflection and went to see Archie Lawanne.