(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.
Soggy
Definition:
(superl.) Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.
Example Sentences:
(1) While none of the fears that have rattled markets are yet realised, the relentless focus on possible risks will likely see another soggy Asia-Pacific trading session.
(2) If you're on the lookout for gristle on a stick, or deep-fried nearly-meat and soggy chips, it's your lucky night.
(3) It has what Hab's design director, Isabel Allen, calls a "muddy, soggy landscape" which has the added benefit that it is fun for children to play in it.
(4) The record sheet rapidly dissolved into a soggy pulp of blood and chlorine.
(5) Unlike Mary, though, Birgitta is not obsessed with "soggy bottoms" but "dödbakade bottnar" ("deadbaked bottoms"), and I can't see Birgitta pulling off soignée Mary's Zara silk bomber.
(6) Frankly, there's too much 'can't do' sogginess around.
(7) We were turned back," said Umm Anis, a widow living in a soggy tent with her daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren.
(8) The women had no electricity and no roof – merely a soggy fabric tarpaulin stretched between two walls.
(9) 8.15pm BST Ruby doesn't know what to do with her un-soggy, practically perfect pie.
(10) Dance, who was flooded five years ago, said he was sorry for those going through the soggy misery he endured then.
(11) The cold winter, reasonably decent summer and good old-fashioned spring and autumn benefited many kinds of fauna that had suffered through previous mild wet winters and soggy summers.
(12) At a soggy, fraught Carrow Road Sunderland eased their way to victory over Norwich City that left the home team looking ominously deflated.
(13) "It's just that lacklustre industrial production data, the soggy July monthly services reading and mediocre retail sales have undermined faith in a super-strong outcome," Clarke said.
(14) Your country – your soggy, soggy country – needs you.
(15) Another surprise is the make-up of a group of yes campaigners out on a soggy night delivering leaflets round Barmulloch, another of the deprived areas of Glasgow's East End.
(16) Still, we could have done with a Jubilee-style cutaway to the sodden picnickers sitting on drenched rugs, clutching rain-diluted fizz as their bottoms, now unquestionably soggy, sank into the mud.
(17) Now, whenever I'm afraid of something, I just say, man, I'm not going to get soggy; I'm just going to go into it.
(18) A utumn in the North Cascades National Park and soggy clouds cling to the peaks of the mountains that inspired the musings of Beat poets such as Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg 60 years ago.
(19) The next day, our children's Christmas concert – always a soggy-necked display of intense love and pride – wasn't shared by my husband, and I felt sad and guilty to be there alone.
(20) The journey has caused the burger to steam into greyness, glueing itself to its soggy bun.The £32 steak appears, cowering in the corner of its container like a whipped puppy.