(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.
Wordy
Definition:
(superl.) Of or pertaining to words; consisting of words; verbal; as, a wordy war.
(superl.) Using many words; verbose; as, a wordy speaker.
(superl.) Containing many words; full of words.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spouse's communication shows a continuous reciprocal attempt not to define their own relation, by the use of a wide wordiness, that includes different subjects and meanings in a confusive and spiral-shaped sequence.
(2) Although he initially found Thomas's wordiness difficult to convey, he was won over by Under Milk Wood 's "craziness".
(3) In years to come, the currently wordy declaration could prove to be a point of change.
(4) That was Philip Drew, the deputy head, whose stern, wordy, slightly sarcastic admonishments of pupils conformed to traditional stereotypes of how heads behave.
(5) The donation, accredited to 28-year-old Evgeny, went to American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's rather wordy cause, the Council of Fashion Designers of America Vogue Fashion Fund.
(6) So the "zero draft", as it's named, is a very long, wordy, worthy document.
(7) The student style – bouncy energy, fast pace, very wordy – could be dialled down.
(8) I don't like 'clever' comedy, it's always far too wordy.
(9) But being a wordy sort of person and also much given to fruitless rumination, I would have been more likely to spend 20 minutes and several paras (yes: even in a txt msg) trying to convey perfectly my empathetic rage at her thwarted desire and suggest half-a-dozen doomed compromises ("Perhaps if you left after the first course your great aunt wouldn't be too hurt?").
(10) He followed it with Hunky Dory (1972), a mix of wordy, elaborate songwriting ( The Bewlay Brothers or Quicksand ), crunchy rockers ( Queen Bitch ) and infectious pop songs ( Kooks ).
(11) Ask me what the greatest influence on the modern English-language novel is, and I won't mention Ulysses (a wordy, self-referential cul-de-sac) and I won't mention Lady Chatterley (honest but snobbish), I will say one word: screen.
(12) It was too long, too wordy, too complex for most of them – and getting to the end of it so that they were sufficiently prepared to be able to answer questions on it in an examination context was a slog for them and for me.
(13) Instead, the document is dominated by wordy phrases about the necessity of attaining social and economic development in those countries.
(14) There is a theory that domestic violence occurs when men run out of words and we could be dealing with a related strain – the dull-minded bloke, imagining himself a romantic but getting all tired at the thought of wordy passion, flexing his fingers instead.
(15) The question being asked is wordy and vague, its legal consequence unclear, and its primary context seems parochial.