Sentence examples for fen from inspiring English sources
The word "fen" is correct in written English
It refers to a type of wetland or marshy area, often characterized by waterlogged soil and specific vegetation. Example: "The wildlife photographer ventured into the fen to capture images of the unique flora and fauna." Alternatives include "marsh" or "swamp."
noun
A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline.
A priory once stood on the site of Spinney Abbey Farm and, on still nights, spectral monks have been seen and heard chanting across the fen, and strange lights bob towards Spinney Bank.
The Chinese fen (nominally worth about one-sixth of a cent), meanwhile, is coated in aluminium.
Cheaper by far to hire a pen that can attack Hillary Clinton's hair, moan about the commute or write, "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole".
Mr Dee tantalisingly captures its seasonal flavours: the "white razorlight" of a winter fen padded with snow; the "wedding cakes of cumulus" that fill spring's open skies; the hot nettle-scented air of summer; the autumn winds that scatter thistle seeds in a "silent, spreading, milky broadcast".He describes the other fields with equal eloquence.
One renminbi (yuan) is divided into 100 fen or 10 jiao.
Banknotes are issued in denominations from 1 fen to 100 renminbi.
He has looked hard at things, at their exact positions and orientations, at upside-down pots in ditches, at broken swords in fen-water, at a piece of string, a knife eased from its hilt, a quern stone (a type of grindstone) set edgeways into the earth all offerings of some sort.
A clinical trial of the product, developed by Transneuronix of Mount Arlington, New Jersey, is currently under way in the United States.Forget fen-phenMeanwhile, a number of drug firms (more than 100 at the last count) are hoping to offer easy-to-swallow pills or potions to suppress appetite.
The most recent attempt resulted in the "fen-phen" fiasco, where protracted use of the drug combination (fenfluramine and phentermine) was subsequently found to cause serious damage to the heart.
The lawyers smell blood.Wyeth, a rival drug company, has taken accounting charges of $16.6 billion to cover the legal costs of suits involving fen-phen, a diet-drug cocktail which caused the heart valves of some patients to deteriorate.
Phentermine previously had been part of fen-phen (fenfluramine-phentermine), an antiobesity combination that was removed from the U.S. market in 1997 because of the high risk for heart valve damage associated with fenfluramine.
