(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.
Moor
Definition:
(n.) One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
(n.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.
(n.) An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
(n.) A game preserve consisting of moorland.
(v. t.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.
(v. t.) Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.
(v. i.) To cast anchor; to become fast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
(2) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(3) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
(4) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
(5) Tim Moore, senior economist at Markit, said: "Construction is no longer the weakest link in the UK economy.
(6) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
(7) Trump might say that is what he wants to happen but for us, that’s deeply upsetting,” says Moore, who sits on the board of the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence and expects the case to have a chilling effect on reports of abuse.
(8) A Catholic boys’ school has reversed its permission to allow civil rights drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a lesbian couple, to shoot on location in New York State.
(9) Colleagues involved in similar Telegraph stings this week included Michael Moore, the Scottish secretary, Ed Davey, a business minister, and Steve Webb, the pensions minister.
(10) Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer Conran retrospective, New Review page 36
(11) When researching his book, Moore could see from Margaret Roberts's student days onwards that she was conscious of the attention being paid to her.
(12) It’s a huge, huge tragedy.” Kortney Moore, 18, said she was in a writing class when a shot came through the window and hit the teacher in the head.
(13) In the latest round of the epic divorce battle between Michelle and Scot Young, the judge, Mr Justice Moor, is making a fresh attempt to discover how much the property dealer is worth.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fishing boats moored in the harbour at Clovelly.
(15) A retrospective study was done on 116 patients who received an Austin Moore prosthesis at Tygerberg Hospital between 1982 and 1983.
(16) I think we’re finally at a place in culture where a character being gay or lesbian isn’t taboo, especially for teenagers – the target audience for a lot of these summer blockbusters,” says screenwriter Graham Moore, who won an Oscar for the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game .
(17) Djami Marika stood at the edge of a pristine Arnhem Land beach and shook his head at the boat moored across the channel.
(18) A lot, without it being thrust down their throats.” The app will add more stories over time, with Moore saying American narrators will be included, and ultimately translations into other languages too.
(19) The technique holds essentially to the reconnaissance of these types of fibers in fragments or pellicles of said specimens, stained by the methods of Azan and Weigert-Moore, modified, without needing to take succour in histologic methodology applicable to other preparations, which, according to the A., would cause a break of continuity in the observation, and also in the interpretation of findings, and this is not always easy to be re-instated with ease and precision.
(20) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.