(Of soil) soft and watery.
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Examples for "sloppy"
Examples for "sloppy"
1In fact, the way many of us climb today promotes sloppy belaying.
2But Mr Lumsden said sloppy paperwork was only part of the problem.
3The visitors fell behind to a sloppy goal after just nine minutes.
4New Zealand's work at the back of the breakdown was also sloppy.
5National MPs said the bill was a lazy, sloppy piece of work.
1How could any sort of industry be possible under these soggy conditions?
2The buckets and spades; the soggy sandwiches; the rain; the cramped car.
3Most common is that fried food is heavy, greasy, soggy, and unhealthy.
4Everywhere the ground was soggy; little streams of water trickled down ditches.
5A welcome reprieve for both the police and the city's soggy residents.
1For a long while, I made my way through a marshy area.
2In the course of the afternoon, the soil became soft and marshy.
3The frogs were making merry in the marshy fields along the avenue.
4They lived there in the country, in a barren and marshy locality.
5In marshy soils, the slaves who cultivate the sugar cane suffer severely.
1Most of the country was swampy, the mules sinking chest-deep in mud.
2The meadow mice are bluish grey and are found in swampy places.
3We came upon swampy ground; just beyond it a road crossed ours.
4Our alligator inhabits the rivers and swampy districts of the southern states.
5It's this swampy patch that runs right through the center of town.
1My waterlogged turnouts must have weighed five times what they weighed dry.
2Her waterlogged fingers felt cold and numb against the M-16's metal receiver.
3The waterlogged feeling was gone as if it had never been there.
4These are waterlogged basins, as they are known to science-thesaturated valleys.
5Manchester United's visit to Liverpool was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
1The horse bounded forwards too quickly to sink in the boggy ground.
2Suitability: Outing mainly follows tracks but includes some boggy and unstable terrain.
3Here on the boggy floodplain of the Fleet it was really something.
4He splashed through the boggy land, paying no attention to his footsteps.
5Beyond the moat, the boggy ploughed fields stretch to the leaden sky.
1The cold set the miry roads like cement, in ruts and ridges.
2Right across the lower part of the bog lay a miry path.
3We did not find the land as miry as we had supposed.
4It was Earl who lay flat on the miry ground beside him.
5Bog boy, I surfaced into the miry streets of the drowned city.
1She had stepped in one mucky spot and left a sharp impression.
2Sean spat onto the mucky snow at the side of the road.
3There was no way to suddenly leap up off that mucky bottom.
4She'd stepped with an inspection warrant out on to a mucky field.
5Lots of work in the mucky stuff and will be sore tomorrow.
1Now here is a sack rather dirtier than the rest and squashy.
2Sat there subdued in the lounge on the black, squashy leather sofa.
3Three great reasons why we love our squashy orange friend .
4Toward this the two little workwomen slopped along on squashy feet.
5Compared with this Hilaris, my client Camillus Verus was just a squashy plum.
1Weston, blinking about him, discovered in the quaggy mould two foot-prints half filled with water.
2The quaggy ground between the camp and the stream would be an excellent defence against sudden attack.
3I cautiously approached its quaggy edges, when I was shocked by what appeared to be a sudden vision!
4She listened to the sermon as from a warm nest safely raised above the quaggy ground of personal feeling.
5The trail was narrow just there, and wound through a quaggy belt where tall wild cabbage grew out of black depths of mire.
1He had fallen into this love as one falls into a sloughy hole.
2Cavity sloughy throughout and cæcum covered with dull grey lymph.
3The Swedish Reform Church was in a sloughy, weedy district, near a group of factories.
(Of liquids) clouded as with sediment.
(Of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear.
1The muddy trail I had left ten days ago seemed quite undisturbed.
2It shows an open sea with no sign of the muddy causeway.
3She rests in her grave on the muddy bottom of the Roanoke.
4He watched the rivulets of muddy water course over his brother's grave.
5The game trail was wide and muddy, trampled flat by large animals.
6The muddy hunter could not find one; he searched in every pocket.
7We crouched in a big trench in muddy water behind the bank.
8There followed a tedious debate, a muddy flow of gabble and balderdash.
9Picturesque Crickhowell was left awash with muddy water after Storm Dennis struck.
10All remained where they were in the middle of the muddy road.
11Crop growers will be struggling a bit with cultivation in muddy conditions.
12Trails are muddy here, sometimes indistinct, but they soon become clear again.
13Wolf bent over and retched up a great muddy sheet of water.
14However, all that seemed to do was muddy the waters of clarity.
15TV footage showed large chunks of soil slipping into the muddy water.
16It was damp, muddy, and desolate; the water looked cold and malignant.
Muddy per variant geogràfica