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- adjective
comparative form ofmarshy : moremarshy
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Examples
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Accept that argument – that this is about preserving communities, not just independent retailers – and you enter a field of debate far wider and marshier than any short review can justly navigate.
The high street: not just for Christmas shopping | Editorial 2011
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The land grew marshier, inlets appeared, and soon we traveled over the bridge to the island.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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Although Sen pays homage to Reason as a force of transcendence ( "it helps us to transcend ideology and blind belief"), the grounds of his discourse may be marshier than he admits.
'The Reach of Reason': An Exchange Livingston, Rick 2001
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Soon they were going down into marshier country again as they approached the York River, which paralleled the James to the north.
A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988
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By late afternoon the terrain became lower and marshier and fields of crops began appearing on either side of a rough, red-clay road again.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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However, towards that fly a fishing-boat was already darting with the swiftness of a water beetle, and causing its two oars to show quiveringly red and grey, while from the marshier of the two banks there began hastily to put out a second boat which leapt in the steamer's wash with the gaiety of a young calf.
Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902
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As I hurried up the path it became a boardwalk through a marshier area, and a penguin jumped up onto it and walked down ahead of me!
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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KENT - Opened in 2007, this beloved paved trail meanders through the Soos Creek Valley - atop raised decking through the marshier stretches - from Southeast 192nd Street, just south of Renton, to 152nd Way Southeast, near Kent's Lake Meridian Park.
The Seattle Times 2011
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However, towards that fly a fishing-boat was already darting with the swiftness of a water beetle, and causing its two oars to show quiveringly red and grey, while from the marshier of the two banks there began hastily to put out a second boat which leapt in the steamer’s wash with the gaiety of a young calf.
Through Russia 2003
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