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Sentence Examples Until there is a real far-reaching agenda that will stop Scotland's economy sinking ever further into the mire, nothing will really change. It did eventually sink into a murky mire of sickening sentimentality that left me feeling nauseous, but hey, that's just me. This implies that throughout the development of each mire, base level rose and accommodation rates increased. It has been likened to the lotus, whose exquisite, fragrant blossom grows out of the muck and mire. The muck and mire are long gone, and the golf course looks much the same as it did on opening day. He was unable to extract round bales from this part of land because machinery got bogged down in the mire. A stop of 15 seconds or more can mire a driver at the back of the field among inexperienced racers and those with ill-handling cars. Its muddy streets, although probably no muddier than those of Greensboro, symbolized the mire in which any of her charges might run amuck. She misses the freedom she had in Germany and slowly sinks into a mire of drugs and alcohol. Tugging his waterproof jacket closer around him, Mr. Quickfire trudged his way through the mud and mire. One side was fence, the other a swamp, a mire skewered by rotting birch trunks bracketed by hard tinder fungi. There are also unusual habitats, a mix of ponds, woods, mire and zones of very rare lowland heath. Open water falling within the delineation was discounted, but mire and swamp forest were not. Quickly we hauled the canoe ashore and began to follow on foot, but the muck and mire made a chase on land impossible. The rays of light coming in through the occasional window were clouded with dust and mire, bathing the stairwell in an eerie glow. As enlightened artists of all types will attest, it's harder to draw simply, to play slowly, to move cleanly, than to mire things in complexity. With the new proposals we will sink even further into the mire with less and less control of our own destiny. Their handsome foliage, bespangled with silver splodges and spots, sparkles among the winter mire. Yet the mass of details, informative and rich as they are, tend to mire the book in a swamp of names and dates. Much-ballyhooed social programs have sunk in a mire of administrative muddling. Show More Sentences She played the character as a fragile English rose struggling to take root in the immoral mire of Berlin. Its good, its proactive and there's no time to sink into the mire of self doubt and hopelessness if you are expending energy. Dance is about lifting us up from the mire we have sunk in and the classical art is a healing influence, which cuts across all barriers. Mary was still sunk in the mire of her own grief and no amount of reasoning would help to get her out of it. What we get at the other end is a drunk, disillusioned rock star who drinks far too much and seems sunk in a permanent mire of melancholy. It must be lifted above the mire of party politics and viewed as a national security issue of great importance. Besides, America is a country with widespread muck and mire, as you may have noticed from our presidential campaign. For a number of years I've been muddling in the mire of trying to figure out who and what I am in relation to church, denomination, God etc. Each week another dire e-commerce venture sinks vaingloriously beneath the mire. It's easy to take the criticism to heart but that will put us further in the mire. The poorest countries in the rurally protected cartel will be helped out of the mire of previously accepted Socialistic sinecurism. He was swamped in it, slowly sinking in to the mire of documents and decisions he could no longer even think of how to make. The shadow that stretches back to grandparents, great-grandparents, and sometimes into the mire of genealogical research. He was one of the great characters, capable of getting himself into the most awful scrapes and then extracting himself from the mire by using his agile brain and wit. The Federal Government wants to ensure that the mire biotopes of national importance are conserved in their entirety. Furthermore, a grower that is known to trade in futures is seen as being a speculator, and therefore considered mire risky. A representative random sample describes the mire areas of Switzerland over time and space. To the comfortless, Waugh offers little more than a choice of living death: malarial mire or furnished flat? An awkward ascent, hopping from tussocks to old stumps through a deep mire, and then a stiff climb up steep screes, led to the high point of the circuit, the John Garner Pass. The battlefield he was instructed to cross was a quagmire of mud, muck and mire. Show More Sentences Any changes in the mire area and mire vegetation will be revealed when subsequent surveys are conducted. Men will surge from the scum, the mire, and the sin to Law and virtue, and will walk along the roads of love and grace. Sides have crashed, crumbled and then pulled themselves out of the mire in less time. Desert warfare was, by definition, mobile warfare, the antithesis of the lethal attrition in the mire of the Western Front. We need fresh mags and fanzines to rise out of the mire and explore the in-between spaces of contemporary culture, the areas ignored by commercial clamour. This will create age structure in the heather, improve habitat for grouse and allow us to see if there are any drainage channels taking water away from the raised mire. He can take heart from the fact that Australia's three Test captains before him also experienced rough trots before emerging from the mire to score freely again. The rain had turned the tiny courtyard between them into a field of mud and mire and it took longer than I expected to pass over the officer's quarters. Any job loss is a blow, but we realise the trust is in a financial mire. Scottish Saltires prop up the table but Yorkshire and Kent are just above them with 20 points each and whoever loses tonight will sink even deeper into the mire. Meanwhile, they are six clear of Rangers who sank further into the mire yesterday when they could only get a draw at home to Inverness Caley Thistle. The mire into which Scottish rugby has sunk is only going to get deeper. What started off as a fascinating delve into the secret world of ghost-hunting has become a parody of itself, sinking into a mire of its own making. Slowly I progress on my downward spiral, but am saved from sinking completely into the mire of self-recrimination by the jolting reality of sudden stillness. The mosses, managed by English Nature, are classified as a Special Conservation Area and are one of the finest areas of lowland raised mire habitats in Europe. It is a novel which plucks the reader up only to plunk him down, firmly, in the muck and mire of everyday life, with nary by-your-leave nor apology tendered. They would not have him ploutering through any more mire and flood. Claims on exclusive entitlements based on religious belief multiply, and given the inseparability of the personal from the political, exclusivist claims mire civil discourse. But he and Congress are both stuck in the mire of health-care reform, so the chances of progress in time for Copenhagen grow slighter by the day. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Show More Sentences Willibald's vita describes how a visitor on horseback come to the site of the martyrdom, and a hoof of his horse got stuck in the mire. The terrain supports lowland heath communities, Ancient woodland and blanket mire which provide a habitat for some scarce flora and fauna. Brighton had begun the evening with one eye on events at Craven Cottage where Wigan Athletic were trying to haul themselves clear of the relegation mire, but could only draw 2-2 at Fulham. No matter, we head to the Kassam Stadium first up, where 12th-placed Oxford host Lincoln, themselves very much in the relegation mire, and one of the few whose miserable form ranks them as value to oppose. Left unsettled, these conflicts will, at best, be a hindrance to any substantial progress in this regard, and, at worst, mire the sector in a never-ending debate. More foreign visitors will follow, but the central question remains: will that be enough to lift the country out of the economic and fiscal mire it fell into after the Celtic Tiger boom went bust? Premier John Major was back in the BSE mire last night after Europe crushed his bid to wriggle out of the cattle cull deal. Water drains from surrounding sandy banks into a peaty bowl where it is held by underlying clay, an example of a soligenous mire. The ghost hypnotized them, and they wandered into the mire, fell through the ice, and were sucked into the thick bog. The Protestant Reformation dragged the kingdom ever more deeply into the mire of religiously charged wars. Sutherland Lyall, the AR's diligent web vole, plashes questingly through the autumn mire of cyberspace. If the Nissan-Renault alliance overcommits itself to GM, the three companies could drag each other into the mire. Without him Fulham would be far deeper in the mire. That you do not have enough strength of will to escape from the mire in which you find yourselves, or from the laziness caused by the bonds that tie you to the material, and that is the beginning of all vices and errors. We're challenging young people to climb out of the dystopic mire that's pervaded their media and dream a better future. The US imperialists and the Lee Myung Bak group are now in the mire, he said, adding that the patriotic forces will surely emerge victorious no matter how wildly the traitorous forces go on the rampage. It is incumbent on the Government not to let this opportunity pass, or to mire progress in another eight years of start-stop-start and change of direction. In the meantime, the best he can do to sustain the current popularity of his coalition is to ensure that some of those who created the fiscal mire end up on trial. Their handsome foliage, bespangled with silver splodges, sparkles in winter mire. The varied upland landscape offers a vital habitat for dry heath, wet heath, mire, sessile oak woodland, reed bed, river, valley mire and marsh grasslands. Show More Sentences They decided to punish him, and the next time he was hunting, one of the witches turned herself into a hare, and led both Bowerman and his hounds into a mire. It isn't easy to write a story that navigates the murky mire that can be teen territory without tripping over the potholes of caricature, overkill and cheesiness. The infamous Fox Tor mire in the vicinity of the cross became an inspiration for the Grimpen Mire, which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described in his The Hound of the Baskervilles. A chapel is said to have once stood close to the Bield and Tarn at Chapel Mire. Goldsmith's cross is located in the Fox Tor Mire area between Childe's Tomb and Nun's Cross, on the Monks' Path. This is said to have been the inspiration for the fictional Grimpen Mire in the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Somewhere in the heart of the great Grimpen Mire, down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in, this cold and cruel-hearted man is forever buried. Fox Tor Mires was supposedly the inspiration for Great Grimpen Mire in Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, although there is a waymarked footpath across it. Examples from Classical Literature Alas, her vicious brood have turned on her and cast her ribbons in the mire! One of his boots had also burst, his wide hat was shapeless, and sunbaked mire clung about him to the knees. That is to say, it was not quite so appallingly smothered in mire and filth as others were. Hercules had come to the cattle-yard of Augeas and had found it clogged with the mire of generations. The stove, with its perspective all awry, was tame and precise, and in colour as dingy as mire. Fox had stumbled in the mire, and had not only been defeated, but befouled. He grovelled in the mire and besought them, calling each one of them by his name. It was for the good of Felix, and everyone else, that they should not all hang about at home in the stodge and mire. And the sow that was washed, she went wallerin' in the mire, first chance she got. They were as deep in the mud as he was in the mire, and he had the whip hand of them all. And there was he, a-running about the house with his rochet on him, and all trailing in the mire. The effort we had to make at every step to get our feet out of the mire tired us out. We got wet, scratched, and plastered with mire all over our nether garments. Some, in their panic, leaped out into the shallow water and sunk in the mire. After the government and the army, he drags the magistracy in the mire! Pescara was too deep in the mire now, to come out unstained. God help those who wander into the great mire now, for even the firm uplands are becoming a morass. He was obliged to walk upon bog tufts and watch his feet to keep from the oily mire. Jurgis would have to wade through it to get home, and if it was late he might easily get stuck to his waist in the mire. Tis my fate to be always ground into the mire under the iron heel of oppression. Show More Sentences Only I stood still, covered, as I was with mire and filth, for I did not fear to stand in the presence of the king. We found a good many dead, and several horses in the mire, but no wounded. You think he's on your side, and suddenly he splashes you with mire! It was only several years before that he had looked up from the mire at such glorious entities and deemed them gods. We said the Saviour who pitied dumb beasts and taught that the ox must be rescued from the mire even on the Sabbath day, would not have counseled a forced march like this. There is an old tin mine on an island in the heart of the mire. To tell the whole, however, she also felt, from time to time, in that cesspool of mire and darkness, something cold passing over her foot or her arm, and she shuddered. Foul with mire, with a bristling beard, and hung with matted hair, it might well have belonged to one of those old savages who dwelt in the burrows on the hillsides. Either of these, but especially the latter, is several miles shorter than that by hawick, and the Queen's Mire. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of mire? Words that rhyme with mire What is the past tense of mire? What is the plural of mire? What is the adjective for mire? What is the noun for mire? Translations for mire Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Mirandese Miranda rights Miranda mirages mirage Miraflores Mire mired mirepoix mires mirex Mirfield 4-letter Words Starting With m mi mir