muck about
Example Sentences
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It’s a swampy spot strewn with fallen trees and branches — far from an alpine jewel — but a half-dozen waterfowl seemed content to muck about in its murky waters.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2022
Once a trail is built, maintainers deal with flooding, erosion and problems created by humans, who have a pernicious tendency to wander off a trail and muck about in fragile forest understory.
From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2021
“You don’t muck about in the U.S. when it comes to that sort of stuff.”
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2020
“A lot of bands that were in the god strata used to be dead jealous of the Bonzos ‘cause we could muck about, and they couldn’t.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2019
Everyone had seen what the future looked like if time travelers were allowed to muck about in history unregulated and unchecked.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
