(n.) A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
(n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
(v. t.) To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bogged down in the daily details of governing, renewing the vision after years in power seems beyond the social democrats.
(2) "I don't want to get too bogged down in it, but the thing is, I haven't taught my son a fraction of what he's taught me.
(3) Stay focused on the “why”, suggests Turner, “and don’t get bogged down in the ‘how’.
(4) He told the Question Time audience that he made a mistake by getting "bogged down" in an argument about the different types of rape, admitting that his comments about the differences between "serious, proper rapes" and others had "obviously upset a lot of people".
(5) If the majority of relevant tree pollens are to be included in a diagnostic or therapeutic programme in Western Sweden it should contain birch, alder, hazel, beech and bog-myrtle allergens.
(6) People can get bogged down in the process, because as you would expect is the normal way of events in these matters we take the legal advice, we act upon it, we mitigate the risks as best we can, but in the end the most important point here is the Australian public wants from their government a piece of legislation that will keep them safe as possible and that is what we are proposing.” The last cabinet discussion was the subject of an extraordinary leak to the Sydney Morning Herald , which showed ministers angry that the proposal had been sprung on them without a submission or documentation.
(7) "We could be forever caught up in NHS politics, get bogged down and be left with an uncertain future," said Bridge.
(8) New descriptions of three species and one subspecies of larvae of T. semenovi Ols., T. regularis Jaenn., T. laetetinctus laetetinctus Beck., and T. l. sordes Bog.
(9) But Heathrow’s new sustainability plan suggests other ways to offset the leap in emissions, including by restoring British peat bogs.
(10) Others took hold when peat bogs dried for agricultural use self-ignited, burning underground.
(11) She looks cheery when attacking, even cheerier when attacked and absolutely radiant when descending into a bog of half-truths and fictions.
(12) Among the substances discovered in bog-standard foodstuffs was the pesticide Chlorpyrifos, in some cases exceeding "safe" limits; DDT in 25% of fish and burger samples, and pesticides in 96% of flour tested, meaning there are residues in bread.
(13) "Gnnmph, I can't 'ave it 'ere, I 'aven't 'ad my enema," wails a labouring housewife, straining fruitlessly on a communal tenement bog as horrified neighbours look on in their rollers.
(14) The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains is currently searching for another missing man , the former Belfast monk Joe Lynskey, who they believe was buried in the same Oristown bog as Megraw.
(15) Michael Kelly (@MichaelKellyIC) It used to be a theology qualification was useful to cover the Vatican, now I'm wishing I did chemistry #Conclave March 13, 2013 12.19pm GMT The Vatican spokespeople seem to be getting a bit bogged down in descriptions of the smoke-making process.
(16) I call these bog-standard homes because you can see the toilet from the street.
(17) But I don't want to get bogged down in the issue of audiences and social content systems.
(18) Or if a former Tory politician writes a comment piece saying feminists should not get so bogged down in fights about identity, she will be told to check her privilege.
(19) A lot of the NGOs over there are doing great work and a lot of them are bogged down by the bureaucracy of a huge organisation.
(20) They were uncovered in a drainage ditch on the bog near the town of Kells.
Moss
Definition:
(n.) A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
(n.) A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
(v. t.) To cover or overgrow with moss.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results obtained from a such study are here compared with levels obtained from a comparative determination of the metals in the mosses by three other techniques: Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV), Direct current plasma (atomic emission) spectroscopy (DCPS) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy.
(2) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(3) Water was being trapped by capillary action between the minute overlapping moss leaves long enough for it to deposit its load of calcium salts, enclosing the plants in a stone straitjacket.
(4) The comedy extravaganza featured an array of TV, music and sports stars, including David Beckham, Kate Moss and Robbie Williams.
(5) The West Ham striker Andy Carroll has lambasted the referee Jon Moss for an unacceptable performance, even accusing the official of trying to even things up by awarding Leicester a stoppage-time penalty.
(6) It was lined with moss and three trunks had grown out of its sides.
(7) Two of the epitopes (I and III) are widely conserved in 34 kDa proteins (presumably B-36 homologues) from the various species tested (Chlamydomonas, moss, fern, oat, onion, carrot, and bean).
(8) Prof Gus John, who led the Moss Side Defence Committee that criticised the Hytner report into the 1981 Moss Side riots, says "key lessons will be missed" if the government fails to set up a proper inquiry.
(9) Three bacterial isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., a Bacillus sp., and an Arthrobacter sp., commonly isolated from a hummocky sedge-moss meadow at Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, were selected for further taxonomic characterization and for a study of the effects of temperature and limiting carbon source on growth.
(10) A naturalised British subject, he spent most of his working life in London and was frequently seen at the most salubrious bars and restaurants, often in the company of beautiful young women such as Kate Moss, who he once painted.
(11) The dark-green Audi in which he journeyed to his last escapades had moss growing in its foot-wells ("three different sorts", he pointed out, proudly), and a variety of useful knives in the glove-box.
(12) I was flicking through a copy of this month's Vogue and there's Kate Moss topless.
(13) While environmental samples of moss from the Wisconsin supplier were negative, Sporothrix schenckii was cultured from multiple samples of the sphagnum moss obtained from one of six Pennsylvania tree nurseries, representing the nursery that was identified as the source for 79 (94%) of the moss-associated cases.
(14) The staff member reiterated concerns outlined by former integrity commissioner Philip Moss in his review into allegations at the centre, and said that asylum seekers feared giving information to staff “and would not complain because they might be targeted”.
(15) Green, who has enlisted his friend Kate Moss to design a range for Topshop, is the closest thing business has to a rock star.
(16) Top tip: The Hall of Mosses trail in Hoh is a short, one-mile loop through old growth rainforest.
(17) The Tower’s steps are covered in golden slime, and on its walls crawls a “rich greenlike moss” that inscribes letters and words on the masonry – before entering and authoring the bodies of the explorers themselves.
(18) "If necessary the police should be properly equipped and even armed, before such a step was taken," said the Downing Street note of a conversation between the home secretary, Willie Whitelaw, and Thatcher on 11 July when riots erupted in Moss Side, Manchester.
(19) If you use that locally you're supporting decarbonising, you're displacing coal and you're supporting renewables," said Andrew Austin, chief executive of IGas, the operator at Barton Moss.
(20) Gathers no Moss Inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, director Mike Figgis filmed his latest digital work, Suspension of Disbelief , in Highgate, London.