(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.
Swampy
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results are negative in swampy meadow -- habitats on siliceous soils.
(2) Grass-mowing of swampy meadows at the beginning of summer drying distinctly restricts numbers of snails, when Zonitoides nitidus lives in the habitats.
(3) A cross-sectional survey on the pattern of causes of death and the age- specific mortality rate were carried out in 11 villages in the lowland swampy area of South Sumatra in September 1984.
(4) The UN has rushed troops to Jonglei, an isolated and swampy state with limited mud roads that are often impassable for months during heavy rains.
(5) Lee , 63, faced the electorate for the first time without his popular father, who ruled for three decades as premier and is credited with transforming the swampy island into a regional financial hub.
(6) 1 of 4 mothers in 11 villages in a plain, lowland swampy area of south Sumatra was interviewed in September 1984 concerning practices in managing diarrhea in the past and any diarrheal attack which had occurred during the last 2 weeks in their children under age 5.
(7) On Sunday a full-scale tank battle was being fought between opposing factions in the South's army in the far western reaches of oil-rich, swampy Upper Nile.
(8) The world’s largest fast food chain also said it would not source commodities from peatlands, or swampy areas that store a lot of carbon and can end up contributing to greenhouse gas emissions when disturbed.
(9) Around 50 years ago, Singapore was little more than an impoverished swampy island with 1.6 million inhabitants and virtually no natural resources.
(10) For the control of Oncomelania quadrasi, environmental modifications, i.e., clearing of vegetation, leveling of swampy depression and draining of stagnant water by channeling and excavation were carried out at 3 areas in Leyte, Philippines from 1974 to 1977.
(11) The localities investigated were swampy environments and scant human cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis have been notified there.
(12) He said the land had been swampy with shallow water.
(13) His Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force pushed oil prices to record highs in 2004 with attacks and threats against production in the delta’s swampy creeks.
(14) I’m on the edge of swampy, fog-shrouded Fox Tor Mire, which was the inspiration for Grimpen Mire in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s book The Hound of the Baskervilles.
(15) amongst populations of the coastal-lowland-swampy-shrubland zone of the country, particularly during the dry season which stretches from October through March.
(16) This song is a moment of joy in a record where swampy depths reign.
(17) There are now just 200 asylum seekers in the detention centre on swampy, tropical Manus Island in northern PNG, which was established in 2001 as part of former prime minister John Howard’s “Pacific Solution”.
(18) It can be found in plains, low altitudes, swampy places, and paddy fields.
(19) Two jobseekers, who did not want to be identified in case they lost their benefits, later told the Guardian that they had to camp under London bridge overnight, to change into security gear in public, had no access to toilets for 24 hours, and were taken to a swampy campsite outside London after working a 14-hour shift in the pouring rain on the banks of the Thames on Sunday.
(20) Two jobseekers, who did not want to be identified in case they lost their benefits, told the Guardian that they had to camp under London bridge overnight, to change into security gear in public, had no access to toilets for 24 hours, and were taken to a swampy campsite outside London after working a 14-hour shift in the pouring rain on the banks of the Thames on Sunday.