(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.
Miry
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.
Example Sentences:
(1) The acarajé at this five-square-metre hole-in-the-wall joint at the top of a bar-packed street close to Mackenzie University are served with grace, charm and warm smiles by Fátima and Miri de Castro.
(2) ‘owl-light’ (Lancashire) fizmer the whispering sound of wind in reeds or grass (Fenland) grimlins the night hours around midsummer when dusk blends into dawn (Orkney) The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape Read more gruffy ground the surface landscape left behind by lead-mining (Somerset) grumma a mirage caused by mist or haze (Shetland) hob-gob a dangerously choppy sea (Suffolk) muxy of land; sticky, miry, muddy (Exmoor) outshifts the fringes and boundaries of a town (Cambridgeshire) roarie-bummlers fast-moving storm clouds (Scots) snow-bones long thin patches of snow still lying after a thaw, often in dips or stream-cuts (Yorkshire) turn-whol a deep and seething pool where two quick streams meet (Cumbria) zwer the whirring sound made by a covey of partridge taking flight (Exmoor)
(3) Glick often led groups of religious Jews to visit the site and had been a key speaker at the conference billed as “Israel Returns to the Temple Mount” with Likud MPs Moshe Feiglin and Miri Regev.
(4) The bill's sponsor, Miri Regev, said the committee's approval was "a clear statement by the government that the towns in the Jordan Valley are a strategic and security asset of the state of Israel that must stay in our hands".
(5) Greece threatens to veto Britain-EU deal if states close borders to refugees Read more “You feel for them, these people with babies fleeing war,” says Afrodita Kotzai, tears welling as she stands with her husband, Miri, outside their apartment near the square.
(6) Anyone could make Cop Out, Jersey Girl, Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
(7) He bounced back with 2006's Clerks 2 , but a further knock was just around the corner in the shape of 2008's skewed romcom Zack And Miri Make A Porno , Smith's attempt to capitalise on the bawdy Judd Apatow comedies he saw himself as a part of.
(8) My entire family is at risk of being killed if we ever went back to Ghazni [his home town].” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘You feel for them, these people with babies fleeing war’ – Afrodita Kotzai with husband Miri.
(9) "In the midst of Zack And Miri, something just felt kinda off.
(10) Glick often led groups of religious Jews to visit the site and had been a key speaker at the conference billed as “Israel Returns to the Temple Mount” with MPs Moshe Feiglin and Miri Regev.