How to Use boggy in a Sentence

boggy

adjective
  • Poison sumac is a shrub-like plant that grows in boggy areas.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 July 2023
  • Don't plant hydrangeas in wet clay or a boggy spot that never dries out.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Microfiber and polyester materials can trap heat and make the bed feel boggy.
    — Mara Santilli, SELF, 27 June 2024
  • An ancient worshiper stopped at the edge of a boggy area in modern-day Wales and looked at the spring.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The punishing route will take them through dense forest, boggy wetlands, and vast, trackless deserts.
    — April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Avoid wet or boggy growing areas because citronella plants may rot in soggy soil.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Ukrainian forces were further limited by the onset of winter, as the ground became boggy.
    — Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Plants thrive in moist soil, and unlike other magnolias, sweet bay tolerates wet, boggy conditions, heavy clay, and salt.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 June 2025
  • 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
  • Our itinerary would take us from the drier — though still boggy — east of the country all the way to the misty mountains of the southwest, running for many hours each day.
    — Alexandra Kleeman, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
  • He’s just been tasked with figuring out who lobbed off the noggin’ of a barrister at a secretive monastery in the boggy small town of Scarnsea.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
  • But instead of beaches and saltwater marshes, woodcock are found where boggy, muddy areas meet with dense cover and young forests.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Northport back then was a small fishing village—at one point, the mayor was also the funeral director—with boggy wetlands and rocky bluffs overlooking the bay.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • Nearby limestone and sandstone were ruled out as filler because crews worried such material would soon decay in the wet soil, returning the site to its boggy condition.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Volunteers with the Ancient Forest Alliance built and maintain the short-but-rugged trail that traverses the grove’s boggy bottom.
    — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Experts believe the prior surveys likely failed because the boggy landscape was first forested in the 19th century, then recently cleared.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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