ADJECTIVE
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(of soil) soft and watery
swampy bayous
a marshy coastline
quaggy terrain
muddy barnyard
the ground was boggy under foot
miry roads
the sloughy edge of the pond
wet mucky lowland
How To Use miry In A Sentence
- When Amiry was writing her script, her husband hoarded her pencil stubs, revealing his secret stash in Medium of Love.
- What is it that draws us out into the earthy fields, along the miry ways and through the wild woods? Times, Sunday Times
- One cannot go to the mines at this time on account of the rising waters and because the routes are miry and submerged… Food is very expensive in this country.
- Page 15 we were stopped by a miry pocoson full half a mile in breadth, through which we were obliged to daggle on foot, plunging now and then, though we picked our way, up to the knees in mud. The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published
- The Roads, where a Wheel had never rolled from the Creation, were miry and founderous, incumbered with long Sloughs of Water. John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776
- Going for law is essentially a plunge into miry water. Times, Sunday Times
- And yet, turning in my trap, I saw her lingering before the door, very still, and as if meditating a flight up the miry road.
- They kept arriving by land much faster than we could come by water; every moment increased the crowd, the jostling, the mutual clinging, on that miry foothold.
- Everything retrograded with him towards the verge of the miry Slough of The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- miry roads