mucky

Example Sentences

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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

Those who remained Sunday described a resilient community making the most of the mucky conditions: Many posted selfies of themselves covered in mud, dancing or splashing in the makeshift lakes.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2023

Her hand fumbled along the mucky sheet until it found the small book of Psalms I had dropped.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson