(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.
Swarm
Definition:
(v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
(n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
(n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
(n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
(v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
(v. i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
(v. i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
(v. i.) To abound; to be filled (with).
(v. i.) To breed multitudes.
(v. t.) To crowd or throng.
Example Sentences:
(1) Swarming is a requisite for mating in populations of Aedes communis and Ae.
(2) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
(3) Although only a small fraction of the yield of that of the murine Engelbreth-Holm, Swarm (EHS) sarcoma, the yield of the human basement membrane-producing tumors could be increased by rendering the mice lathyritic.
(4) Pronase-released glycopeptides of isolated laminin, from a mouse Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm tumor, were fractionated using a combination of gel permeation chromatography and Con A-Sepharose affinity chromatography.
(5) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(6) The viability and morphology of RPE was improved by using a serum-free medium containing a bovine pituitary extract in conjunction with an extracellular matrix coating derived from Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm tumors.
(7) The Heat come out with some swarming defense and Indiana can't get a shot off in time, giving the ball back to Miami.
(8) After a dramatic day which saw police swarm Seven properties across Sydney searching for proof Schapelle Corby had been paid for an interview, Seven West Media boss Tim Worner said that the police action had come as a total surprise because the Seven had cooperated with the inquiry fully.
(9) The fire extinguisher was thrown after protesters swarmed into Millbank Tower, the Westminster building that houses the Conservative party's headquarters.
(10) An LSC colony spreads on the surface of solid 100:10 medium as a monolayer of cells in a fashion resembling that of certain swarming or gliding bacteria.
(11) In some instances swarming is stimulated at very low toxin doses.
(12) Swarm cells of Thiothrix nivea were found to possess a group of fimbriae at one pole.
(13) Monoclonal antibodies that recognize epitopes in these domains were raised against Swarm rat chondrosarcoma aggrecan that was either denatured through reduction and alkylation or partially deglycosylated through chondroitinase ABC digestion or alkali elimination, the latter with or without sulfite addition.
(14) The rhetoric that sees innocent people labelled “marauding,” “swarms” and “cockroaches” is what makes it permissible for society to imprison them, and it should come as no surprise that women and children are at particular risk from punitive immigration laws.
(15) It was established that coupling took place in swarms with swarming males and out of swarms with freely flying males.
(16) But much worse things are happening here.” The UK prime minister, David Cameron, drew widespread criticism on Thursday for saying that the 185,000 men, women and children who have risked their lives to flee poverty, persecution and war in search a better life were “swarming” across the Mediterranean .
(17) Richard Dunne clatters into him late, the goalkeeper goes down and several France players swarm around Dunne to voice their displeasure at the Ireland defender.
(18) David Cameron used ‘swarm’ instead of ‘plague’ in case it implied that God had sent the migrants | Frankie Boyle Read more David Cameron recently spoke of a “swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean”.
(19) In a speech in July, prime minister David Cameron referred to migrants and refugees trying to reach Britain as a “swarm” .
(20) If the concentration is increased the swarming ceases, and at still higher concentrations the bacteria are inactivated.