(a.) Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Men characteristically present with lower tract symptoms, often epididymitis, a cystic or boggy periprostatic mass on rectal examination and ipsilateral nonvisualization on excretory urography.
(2) Richard Boggis-Rolfe, chief executive of Odgers Berndtson, said: "I have accepted Johnny's resignation as an adviser with regret.
(3) Emma Boggis, chief executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance , which represents more than 320 sports governing bodies and about 8,000 sports clubs, said she was pleased the government was wasting no time in developing a new approach.
(4) Patients presented with thick-roofed blisters and denuded, red, boggy areas of mucosa.
(5) It crosses a flat boggy area and then descends steeply to the shore where you will find a pebbly beach; the far end is sandy.
(6) Boggy congestion was present in two with cystoid edema.
(7) The crash site was surrounded by water and boggy land, hampering access, Smith said.
(8) For the release the new beavers, both around two years old, were carried in separate crates through a boggy field down to the riverbank, where the team of wildlife experts had constructed two lodges for them in a quiet spot under willow trees.
(9) But it was a profitable marriage in 1677 that secured boggy farmland in what became the Mayfair and Belgravia areas of London that really cemented the family fortunes.
(10) Instead, continue on your grassy, often boggy, path, heading south then southwest.
(11) We performed 16 synovectomies of the knee in 14 children, adolescents, and young adults with hemophilia A for boggy synovium due to hemophilia.
(12) Builders laid logs and brushwood on the boggy ground before building it up in layers, finishing with gravel and rammed clay still so solid and sound it looks modern.
(13) The Forest of Bowland , a striking landscape of boggy, open upland carpeted with heather and bracken, is home to some of the last breeding pairs of hen harriers in England.
(14) Though the route is relatively easy it can be very boggy beyond Blea Tarn, so wear appropriate footwear.
(15) We then scaled boggy slopes on tank-style metal treads.
(16) We recommend retrograde urethrography in male patients with a pelvic fracture or significant lower abdominal or perineal trauma without a fracture when associated with gross hematuria, a bloody urethral discharge, inability to void, swelling, ecchymosis or hematoma of the perineum or penis, or a "high-riding" or boggy prostate.
(17) At the end of the Nanjing Road, the buildings seemed to part like curtains, and there was the Huangpu river and, beyond, Pudong, until 1990 a boggy swampland, but now packed tight with skyscrapers of every imaginable, and some unimaginable, shape and size – Shanghai's iconic and totemic billboard for the restlessness and energy that is modern China.
(18) The progression of upper airway edema in 14 patients was characterized by obliteration of the aryepiglottic folds, arytenoid eminences, and interarytenoid areas by boggy, edematous tissue that prolapsed to occlude the airway.
(19) Phil Burston, water policy officer at the RSPB, said: "Wading birds like lapwings, redshanks and avocets rely on shallow pools and boggy marshes.
(20) They hate tap water, but need a boggy environment; in summer, sit plants in a tray with rainwater half an inch up their plastic pots.
Marshy
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.
(a.) Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The site of the crash was in the marshy Ruhr meadows.
(2) The Cs transfer from soil into pasture vegetation was investigated by using a variation of experimental conditions: (I) 67 pots with 7 kg soil from 3 marshy and 1 sandy site in the lower Weser region in Northwest Germany are used in a greenhouse with 134Cs under 8 different experimental procedures for 2 harvests; (II) 3 undisturbed 50 kg lysimeters were observed for 137Cs and 60Co transfer under outdoor conditions for 4 harvests, depth profiles of the activity were determined afterwards; (III) the transfer of the atmospheric fallout 137Cs directly to the vegetation and from soil to vegetation after preventing its direct uptake by plastic covers was determined at 4 locations in the open pasture.
(3) The terrain is very easy, on the whole, but be aware that recent rain leaves patches of the ground quite marshy.
(4) But in another of the worst affected areas, the Somerset levels, water is likely to hang around for much longer, because the area is naturally marshy and some is under sea level, so there are fewer places for the excess water to go and the saturated ground cannot hold any more.
(5) On the marshy plain near Gewani significantly higher infection rates occur among Afar females than males.
(6) Twenty-three strains of V. gazogenes were isolated from salt marshes and marshy areas on the coast of North and South Carolina.
(7) Like countless other Egyptians, the Shamdys abandoned their family home and fled north into the Nile Delta, where they could hide within the marshy swamplands that fanned out from the great river's edge.
(8) I’m not being ironic: the bogs of western Britain and Ireland don’t freeze as they do in Scandinavia, so the geese can devour the roots of marshy plants on which they depend.
(9) Richard III reburial: Leicester welcomes king's remains – in pictures Read more The first stop is Fenn Lane, at the working farm where scatters of artillery shot and bits of broken horse harness and weaponry finally identified the marshy ground where the last Plantagenet king lost his horse, his helmet and then his life in the last hour of the battle of Bosworth, in August 1485.
(10) Point Pelee, a marshy spit jutting into Lake Erie, is an international mecca for birdwatchers.
(11) Corbyn’s – and Labour’s – opponents will seize on anything to paint him as an unreconstructed Stalinist itching to send the burghers of Kensington off to some marshy gulag.
(12) A tendency can be shown for a relation to body structure as short-legged species living on marshy grounds (Kobus) or soft sands (Addax) have larger anterior lobes.
(13) The fluke needs marshy conditions to complete its life cycle, so could not have come from the desert area around the ancient Xuanquanzhi relay station.
(14) The earmarked site, at the geographic centre of New York, had for years been a marshy dumping ground, home to mountains of ash, so vividly described by F Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby as "a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens".
(15) Every 22 August it is wreathed in flowers, on the anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth, when the last Plantagenet lost his horse in marshy ground, and then his life and his crown, which legend says rolled from his dying head under a furze bush.
(16) Many of the Armenian refugees moved from the port area to a camp on the city’s eastern fringes: Bourj Hammoud, established on a marshy piece of rural land.
(17) A protected wildlife zone, the marshy shores are home to a variety of birds, and a ban on new hotels in the area allows the lakeside villages to remain peaceful and authentic.
(18) The remains of a suspected case of homicide, found to be almost totally skeletal on exhumation, was dug out from a pit in a tract of marshy land in the deep south or Sri Lanka.
(19) While their friend Mark Gatiss has travelled with his writing to the heart of mainstream TV (Doctor Who, Sherlock), Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have been happy to till their own patch of marshy ground outside its walls.
(20) Among the 28 cases, 27 lived in a square mile marshy area where Anopheles hermsi, a newly described American species of the Anopheles maculipennis group, was known to be breeding.