Sentence examples for bogland from inspiring English sources

The sight of policemen digging deep holes in bogland, and sifting through clay and sand by the sea, has a horrible fascination.All nine victims were seized inside Northern Ireland.

The sphagnum swamps, which are widespread in the northern tundra or bogland area, yield harvests of cloudberries, as well as plagues of mosquitoes.

At least two bodies have been found in bogland in the Republic of Ireland, where 'disappeared' victims of the IRA are believed to have been secretly buried during the Troubles.

The site is now farmland but was wild bogland during the 1970s when the burials are understood to have taken place in unmarked graves.

I found it hard to think of a time when there was no road there because the trees and the tall hills and the fine views of bogland had been arranged by wise hands for the pleasing picture they made when looked at from the road.

The rejected novel's bicycle-mad policemen, and its "fine views of bogland," are transplanted nearly intact.

Sphagnum often grows in dense mats in acidic boglands.

Somewhere over the boglands a curlew cried.

Achill Island on the west coast of Ireland is a place of spectacular natural beauty, boasting vast boglands, rugged hills, vertiginous sea cliffs and a catalogue of blue flag beaches.

"Ma Ma MaMa!" That night, Cillian came roaring out of the dark, pistoning his knees as he ran for the light, for his home at the edge of the boglands.

She'd run away to be with Cillian's father, then returned to the boglands alone with a bug-eyed toddler.