mud

Example Sentences

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"I was watching these girls smashing each other into the mud on and thinking I'm a United States international but I'm not actually as good as the average person here," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Residents described water rising to waist level in just hours — overwhelming properties that had never flooded before and leaving behind a thick layer of mud and debris.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

Ms. DuBois, a feminist scholar and professor of history at University of California, Los Angeles, pulls Stanton’s reputation out of the mud by putting her words and actions into historical context.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

"There's still a lot of mud in the villages," she said.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

And that’s how the mud dauber wasp starts out life.”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck