mucky

Example Sentences

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The trees won’t take in wetlands, in mucky soils.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

I waded a long way out, til the bottom grew mucky and seaweed tickled my legs, then submerged.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

A digger tucked into the dumped piles and loaded a trailer, which was then pulled across a vast expanse of mucky wet ground by a tractor.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2025

There, the Dnipro now wends through a mucky patchwork of about 9000 newly formed small lakes and ephemeral ponds.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 3, 2024

Cal and I lay side by side on an orange-and-green striped towel on a mucky beach across the swamps from Lynn.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath