mire - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • raise: Floating rescue saves mire A dramatic rescue operation has saved large sections of rare raised mire from destruction.

Adjective modifier

  • deep: I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Modifies a noun

  • vegetation: Two hectares of raised mire vegetation now survives across the administrative boundary at Acorn Field Moss in North Merseyside.
  • habitat: Blanket bog is one of two main mire habitats found in Lancashire, the other being lowland raised bog.
  • community: It formerly held the only blanket mire communities in the county.

Preposition: in

  • corruption: All over the world the establishment political parties are becoming mired in corruption.
  • poverty: This film asks why the Caribbean region is mired in poverty.
  • confusion: By and large it failed, and the decisions it did manage to take are mired in confusion.

Noun used with modifier

  • aizoides: Open, stony flushes of M11 Carex demissa Saxifraga aizoides mire are also well-represented.
  • papillosum: Additionally, there are transitions to areas of M21 Narthecium ossifragum Sphagnum papillosum valley mire.
  • erecta: Other mire types frequently occur within the heathland matrix, especially M25 Molinia caerulea-Potentilla erecta mire.
  • saxatilis: An additional interest is the presence of an eastern outlier of the mainly western M12 Carex saxatilis mire.
  • vulgaris: The vegetation is characterized by M10 Carex dioica Pinguicula vulgaris mire.
  • blanket: It formerly held the only blanket mire communities in the county.

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