(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.
Slump
Definition:
(n.) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
(v. t.) To lump; to throw into a mess.
(v. i.) To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person.
(n.) A boggy place.
(n.) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
(2) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
(3) Shaky phone footage of the raid that circulated online showed the vigilantes kicking, slapping and insulting the men, with one of them slumped naked on the ground during the attack.
(4) If the government reduces its spending at the same time, this will make the slump worse, not better.
(5) Household spending has slumped to its lowest rate in nearly two years, underlining the sluggishness of Britain's economy.
(6) The construction of Fab 42 was halted in 2014 , following a slump in PC sales, but analysts don’t believe Trump is the reason it’s been restarted.
(7) A leading academic, Prof Robert Bea, from the engineering faculty at the University of California in Berkeley, who made a special study of the Deepwater Horizon accident , has raised new concerns that the recent slump in oil prices could compromise safety across the industry as oil producers strive to cut costs.
(8) The schemes will be scrutinised for evidence that the government has accepted criticism that it is not acting fast or hard enough to reverse the continuing slump in the economy, with ministers braced for further bad news on jobs and investment over the summer.
(9) Branson also has a stake in Virgin Money, which has suffered a 40% slump in its shares since the referendum.
(10) The austerity drive and recession meant some big construction projects being shelved, while in many regions housing market activity slumped.
(11) However, Leroy warned that a slump will hit the industry this year, with pan-European sales expected to fall 5%.
(12) House prices have slumped by 14.6% since last October after 12 consecutive months of falls, Nationwide Building Society said today.
(13) But Nel said that for Steenkamp to have fallen on to the rack, given she was found with her head slumped over the toilet, she would have had to have got up.
(14) Newspaper sales slumped in Spain during the financial crisis.
(15) Despite a near monopoly in many towns, HMV stores were seeing sales slump year after year, even at paper-thin margins.
(16) She looks at me, slumped and sweating at her kitchen table.
(17) Wetherspoon said it was trying to help those caught in the economic slump.
(18) The government has declared an end to the half-decade slump in housebuilding after cheap borrowing and the Help to Buy scheme prompted a 6% increase in the start of work on new homes in the three months to June.
(19) More than 8,000 jobs at Clinton Cards were on the line after the group became the latest casualty of the high street spending slump.
(20) A worse slump than expected means many more unemployed and thousands more homes repossessed.