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Example sentences for "mired"

Lexicographically close words:
mirages; mirando; mirar; miratur; mire; miri; mirifice; miris; mirk; mirky
  1. Olmstead, our brigade commander, had mired in the swamp, our regiment was without a field officer and Will Daniel offered to take command of the brigade in the final charge, which we all felt to be ahead of us.

  2. Capers in crossing a ditch had mired in its bottom and had found some difficulty in extricating himself; that the war horse of the male persuasion ridden by Col.

  3. They're living on the Mired Mule Ranch now.

  4. And he turned off down the big pear flat on the Piedra, in the direction of Mired Mule; and I steered northwest for old Bill Toomey's ranch.

  5. I recollect his promise about the pancake receipt, and I thinks I will persuade it from Miss Willella and give it to him; and then if I catches Birdie off of Mired Mule again, I'll make him hop the twig.

  6. I'm Jackson Bird, from over at Mired Mule Ranch.

  7. A heavy wagon, loaded with bags of grain, was mired in the mud of the prairie road.

  8. I've learned a way for myself of helping the many who get mired out here.

  9. It was midway of the avenue that I came upon her coach, fast as a grounded flatboat, both of the forewheels being mired to the hub.

  10. The President and Mr. Burr were exchanging bows with my Spanish don of the mired carriage!

  11. It would be rash, however, to infer from such data that these quadrupeds were mired in modern times, unless we use that term strictly in a geological sense.

  12. Oh how are we misted and mired with the love of things that are on this side of time, and on this side of death's water!

  13. It was a buffalo bull, fast mired in a slough.

  14. Thar was a cow got mired thar last month, up to her belly.

  15. And there I found you two, mired to the waist, and Mr. Parrish dancing around and fretting, and his clothes burned to cinders.

  16. To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired waist deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Shows him the path he never should have gone.

  17. No humor penetrated my high mood even as I somewhat uneasily recalled certain spring thaws when I had been mired in roads provided by the American citizen.

  18. The street long remained a shocking mass of wet, dilapidated cedar blocks, where children were sometimes mired as they floated a surviving block in the water which speedily filled the holes whence other blocks had been extracted for fuel.

  19. The boss said nobody was dead, but the giant, who was mired in out of sight.

  20. The wagons have been mired in the mud on the way from the train to the lot every day in the streets of cities big enough to have street cars and electric lights.

  21. Thus encouraged, we proceeded; and though I was not mired down, nor yet absolutely eaten up, I suffered from both the threatened plagues, and that most severely.

  22. Already we began to come upon a piece of artillery mired down, the horses dead beat, the gun left, and the horses double-teamed into the remaining pieces.

  23. They had just wallowed through a particularly deep mud hole in which one of the pack horses had nearly mired down, when Hugh stopped, dismounted and went back to tighten a cinch, while Jack got off to help him.

  24. The no-roads were bottomless; the two guns mired and mired; the straining horses could do little, however good their will.

  25. In the stagnant swamps and meres thus caused the Fen deposits grew, and in this time the Shippea man met his death mired in the watery peat of the then undrained fens.

  26. When the water was low, as it was then, the cattle mired by the hundreds.

  27. Some of the mired cattle had died, others had kinks in their necks and had to be killed.

  28. It now became the cowboy's duty to throw his rope over the mired beast's horns, make the other end fast to the saddle horn, then to urge the sturdy little cow-pony forward with whip and spur.

  29. Drivers did not dare come too near the edge of the pavement in passing, even on the major two-lane roads, since their vehicles would probably become mired on the shoulder.

  30. It is argued that the upright position of most of the skeletons found in situ seems to suggest that the creatures must have been mired in adhesive mud sufficiently firm to uphold the ponderous bones after the flesh had decayed.

  31. In the first place, they may have got mired on going into the water, or in trying to land on the other side, after swimming across.

  32. He had a journey of only a few hundred yards to make, and Jack began to imagine all kinds of misfortune that might have befallen him, such as being mired beyond his depth in the swamp and perishing miserably.

  33. First we chased him through a swamp till his tongue hung out and left him mired to the whiskers.

  34. I could not help thinking what my condition would have been if I had tried to cross it and been mired in the bog, and like any good stockman, I was hoping that my cattle had got safe across in their rush for home and safety.

  35. It would never do to risk getting mired here, for this country is unsettled and we must be twenty miles from another human being.

  36. What will you do if you get mired twenty miles from a human being?

  37. The foot of the horse, traveling and often mired in a rough muddy highway, was its swiftest courier.

  38. He said that he was like a mired horse whenever he began to read a play of the immortal bard, and that he had to take his time in getting out.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mired" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.