Peat

"Peat" in a Sentence (12 examples)

If ashes were flour and peat was bacon, we'd eat bacon pancakes every day.

Pete does not like peat.

Like coal, peat can also be burnt as fuel.

Is peat a type of podzol?

Peat moss used to be prized as a fuel source.

Ziri filled the hole with peat moss.

A farmer in Ireland has found a ball of 2,000-year-old butter buried in a peat bog.

Some wetlands, such as peat bogs, store large amounts of organic carbon, which can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Like coal, peat can also be burned as fuel.

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On the return journey the engine ran short of coal, and came to a stand near Penygroes through shortage of steam. Fortunately, there was some peat in a nearby field, which the enginemen dug and the directors helped to carry to the engine. Steam was soon raised and the story had a happy ending!

And let it not displease thee, good Bianca, / For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl. / A pretty peat!

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