miry

Example Sentences

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He forged his way out of the miry roads of his origins, becoming a musician and filmmaker, and teaching himself to make visual art.

From New York Times

According to the historian Edward Hasted, writing in the 1770s, Cooling was “an unfrequented place, the roads of which are deep and miry, and it is as unhealthy as it is unpleasant.”

From New York Times

Without access to the inter-stage area, which turns the miry walk between the two main stages into a comparatively short hop, the following would not be possible.

From Time

He had to step aside as he spoke to let a manure cart go by, labouring along the miry way.

From Project Gutenberg

They splashed through miry rut and pool,— Splintered through fence and rail; But chestnut Kate switched over the gate,— I saw them droop and tail.

From Project Gutenberg