Miry in A Sentence

    1

    At last they had him consigned to a miry dungeon, and it was the king who (at the instance of the Cushite Ebed-melech) intervened for his relief, though he remained a prisoner in other quarters till the fall of Jerusalem (586 B.C.).

    2

    I tried to scramble backward on all fours, but the stone flooring proved too slippery under the thick miry coating that covered it.

    3

    The heavily armoured French noblesse, embogged in miry meadows, proved helpless before the lightly equipped English archery.