How To Use Peaty In A Sentence
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This inclosure, however, was filled with a dense peaty mass not reduced to mold, the result of centuries of sphagnous growth, which had reached a thickness of nearly
An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians
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Peaty is typically forthright but has mixed feelings about blanket bans for nations.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the extreme tidal limits in wet areas, organic production may exceed sediment supply and peaty organic sediments may then accumulate.
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The river is a brown, turgid worm as broad as a peaty salmon-spawn stream.
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Peaty is typically forthright but has mixed feelings about blanket bans for nations.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were many cesspools in the city and more in the suburbs, and slops were being emptied on to peaty land.
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It has the addictive Hebridean savour of a peaty-iodiney island malt.
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Their contents are therefore more of the "mucky" than of the "peaty" order, and this may partly account for New England usage in regard to these old English words.
Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel
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Some were peaty black, like dried moleskins; others had a more southern Somerset ruddiness, a color that to me always seems old, like cheese rind or the face of a red deer.
A Year on the Wing
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It forms long leafy strands, with tiny, pale brown spore cases at the tips, and grows on wet heaths, peaty soil, and other places that are under water for much of the winter, preferably with some disturbance from grazing or vehicles.
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These are poor in nutrients and their peaty soils have little capacity to absorb any more acid without deleterious effects.
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This inclosure, however, was filled with a dense peaty mass not reduced to mold, the result of centuries of sphagnous growth, which had reached a thickness of nearly 2 feet above the remains.
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
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As I wore it, what I later came to know as immortelle became bewitching: alternating between toasty caramel and deep, peaty smoky scotch.
Archive 2007-04-01
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Traipsing along the tufted surface, peaty water swirling rainbows beside my boots more vivid than any I'd seen in the far off sky, I swung the furry body at my side.
Acceptance
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Some years ago, while trekking over the peaty moorland of the Western Isles, I stumbled upon it quite by accident.
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It has the addictive Hebridean savour of a peaty-iodiney island malt.
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Much difficulty was experienced with the mast's stays, which frequently required tightening on account of the "deadmen" working loose in the yielding peaty soil.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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The community typically occurs on peaty soils on gentle slopes or plateaus at higher altitudes.
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Peaty is typically forthright but has mixed feelings about blanket bans for nations.
Times, Sunday Times
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The drive then takes us over increasingly bleak countryside, slicing through dense birch forest and peaty bog, all snow bleached and windswept by the looming power of Lake Superior.
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Natural resources as mineral water, clay, swell soil, peaty soil and building sand are also quite rich in amount.
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What it hasn't lost is any of the flavour, so you need to like big, peaty, smoky malts - and a fearless 46% alcohol.
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This the roving waves bore over the submerged and now peaty forests, and deposited above them the elements of rocks which were to superpose the coal strata.
The Underground City
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And then the path, quite rough and peaty, curves to a sandy beach with a view that's a treat - across the water, half a mile straight to the dam.
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Pocosins, an ancient Algonquin term for swamp-on-a-hill are characterized as extensive flat damp, sandy or peaty areas far from streams with a scattered growth of pond pine (Pinus serotina) and a dense growth of mostly evergreen shrubs (often gallberry, Ilex glabra), that taken together, resemble a heath scrub community.
Middle Atlantic coastal forests
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Often he would lie for hours, his elbows in the peaty soil, peering through a jungle of grass blades in search of those elusive musicians.
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The steel-grey wavelets of Loch Skeen lapped dark peaty banks.
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Stream flow is nival, and carries DOC-enriched spring runoff from peaty catchments to Toolik Lake.
Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic
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Peaty soils dominated hollows and lower slopes with tallish heather, and subalpine soils dominated the freely drained ground with short heath.
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Peaty is typically forthright but has mixed feelings about blanket bans for nations.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are poor in nutrients and their peaty soils have little capacity to absorb any more acid without deleterious effects.
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More elderly members of the party were helped over peaty ditches to the edge of the plantation.
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These are poor in nutrients and their peaty soils have little capacity to absorb any more acid without deleterious effects.
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It grows in abundance on the peaty moors of Scotland.
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One was a species of Euphrasia, or eyebright, endemic to the peaty heathlands and mountains of the Port Davey area and never before described.
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I simply jigged the buzzer slowly up and down in the dark but clear peaty water and the fish would follow it occasionally darting at, but not taking the fly.
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The ground was dark and peaty, and bounced gently beneath my feet.
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Within an hour's drive of Scotland's elegantly-terraced capital are snow-dusted crags and high, peaty moors, tumbling cascades, sinuous, copper-coloured rivers and silvery lochs a mile or more deep.
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Transplant the seedlings into peaty soil.
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Although the perfume contains no whisky, the blend of ingredients is chosen to recreate the traditional smoky and peaty smells of island malts such as Talisker and Laphroaig.
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The opposite side had likewise fields below, with one grey farm house peeping in sight, and red cattle feeding in one, and above the same rocky woodland, meeting the other at the quarry; and then after a little cascade had tumbled down from the steeper ground, giving place to the heathery peaty moor, which ended, more than two miles off in a torr like a small sphinx.
Modern Broods
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Peaty soil; good drainage in winter.
Winter Garden Glory
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Peaty kicks his legs in a way that is different to any other breaststroker: narrower and quicker.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is modified by the prevailing high humidity, giving peaty soils and a wide distribution of oceanic plants such as liverwort Frullania teneriffae, by the effect of salt spray even hundreds of meters inland, resulting in Plantago-dominated swards on cliff tops, and by the fertilizing effects of vast numbers of nesting seabirds which create a rich turf.
St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom
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Peaty alluvial soils characteristically have an O horizon which usually occurs at the surface but can be interbedded with freshwater alluvial sediments.
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When we reached First Bog, we lay flat on the wooden bridge and searched the peaty water for the aquatic lesser bladderwort, another of the local insectivorous plants.
Wildwood
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Peaty is typically forthright but has mixed feelings about blanket bans for nations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Simple wire baskets are by far the best and should be line, with sphagnum moss (not polythene, which is often used today) before being filled with a-peaty compost.
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On the peaty hummocks of Yew Tree Heath in the north-east of the forest, where a few hessian-coloured fallow deer merge into the rust-tipped bracken, the only sounds are the wailing of a redshank and the hum of bees.
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The creature it belonged to ploughed against the current for a while, and then disappeared. It had presumably returned to its haunts in the murky, peaty depths of the lake.
