(Of soil) soft and watery.
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Examples for "muddy "
Examples for "muddy "
1 The muddy trail I had left ten days ago seemed quite undisturbed.
2 It shows an open sea with no sign of the muddy causeway.
3 She rests in her grave on the muddy bottom of the Roanoke.
4 He watched the rivulets of muddy water course over his brother's grave.
5 The game trail was wide and muddy , trampled flat by large animals.
1 In fact, the way many of us climb today promotes sloppy belaying.
2 But Mr Lumsden said sloppy paperwork was only part of the problem.
3 The visitors fell behind to a sloppy goal after just nine minutes.
4 New Zealand's work at the back of the breakdown was also sloppy .
5 National MPs said the bill was a lazy, sloppy piece of work.
1 How could any sort of industry be possible under these soggy conditions?
2 The buckets and spades; the soggy sandwiches; the rain; the cramped car.
3 Most common is that fried food is heavy, greasy, soggy , and unhealthy.
4 Everywhere the ground was soggy ; little streams of water trickled down ditches.
5 A welcome reprieve for both the police and the city's soggy residents.
1 For a long while, I made my way through a marshy area.
2 In the course of the afternoon, the soil became soft and marshy .
3 The frogs were making merry in the marshy fields along the avenue.
4 They lived there in the country, in a barren and marshy locality.
5 In marshy soils, the slaves who cultivate the sugar cane suffer severely.
1 Most of the country was swampy , the mules sinking chest-deep in mud.
2 The meadow mice are bluish grey and are found in swampy places.
3 We came upon swampy ground; just beyond it a road crossed ours.
4 Our alligator inhabits the rivers and swampy districts of the southern states.
5 It's this swampy patch that runs right through the center of town.
1 My waterlogged turnouts must have weighed five times what they weighed dry.
2 Her waterlogged fingers felt cold and numb against the M-16's metal receiver.
3 The waterlogged feeling was gone as if it had never been there.
4 These are waterlogged basins, as they are known to science-thesaturated valleys.
5 Manchester United's visit to Liverpool was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
1 The horse bounded forwards too quickly to sink in the boggy ground.
2 Suitability: Outing mainly follows tracks but includes some boggy and unstable terrain.
3 Here on the boggy floodplain of the Fleet it was really something.
4 He splashed through the boggy land, paying no attention to his footsteps.
5 Beyond the moat, the boggy ploughed fields stretch to the leaden sky.
1 The cold set the miry roads like cement, in ruts and ridges.
2 Right across the lower part of the bog lay a miry path.
3 We did not find the land as miry as we had supposed.
4 It was Earl who lay flat on the miry ground beside him.
5 Bog boy, I surfaced into the miry streets of the drowned city.
1 Now here is a sack rather dirtier than the rest and squashy .
2 Sat there subdued in the lounge on the black, squashy leather sofa.
3 Three great reasons why we love our squashy orange friend .
4 Toward this the two little workwomen slopped along on squashy feet.
5 Compared with this Hilaris, my client Camillus Verus was just a squashy plum.
1 Weston, blinking about him, discovered in the quaggy mould two foot-prints half filled with water.
2 The quaggy ground between the camp and the stream would be an excellent defence against sudden attack.
3 I cautiously approached its quaggy edges, when I was shocked by what appeared to be a sudden vision!
4 She listened to the sermon as from a warm nest safely raised above the quaggy ground of personal feeling.
5 The trail was narrow just there, and wound through a quaggy belt where tall wild cabbage grew out of black depths of mire.
1 He had fallen into this love as one falls into a sloughy hole.
2 Cavity sloughy throughout and cæcum covered with dull grey lymph.
3 The Swedish Reform Church was in a sloughy , weedy district, near a group of factories.
1 She had stepped in one mucky spot and left a sharp impression.
2 Sean spat onto the mucky snow at the side of the road.
3 There was no way to suddenly leap up off that mucky bottom.
4 She'd stepped with an inspection warrant out on to a mucky field.
5 Lots of work in the mucky stuff and will be sore tomorrow.
6 It moved freely, not at all like a clump of mucky carbon.
7 I'm bound to be delayed now, for the roads will be mucky .
8 Not standing knee-deep in a mucky pond with a couple of sticks.
9 She said she was wearing wellington boots and the ground was extremely mucky .
10 He was somewhere between the surface of the water and the mucky bottom.
11 Even the most beautiful of breeds can be a mucky pup.
12 They flattened themselves on the cold, mucky ground till the headlights went by.
13 You're a sleazoid with delusions of grandeur who does mucky things with ghosts.
14 They come through showers and mucky leaves remarkably well, with a little wipe.
15 I guess I look a pretty mucky spectacle when I'm drunk.
16 He came to a flat area of ground that was black and mucky .
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