swampy

Example Sentences

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Their breath was believed to poison the air and suffocate the land, especially in swampy regions where disease was common.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026

The sun is setting over Ilubirin, a half-finished housing estate being constructed on sand-filled land reclaimed from the swampy Lagos lagoon.

From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025

Her poems ranged from swampy oppressive memories of Florida to the nature of poetry to musings on hypocritical activists.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

The backing band adds layers of skronk and sweat to the chugging machine, eschewing the neat-as-a-pin style of their U.K. counterparts for something suitably swampy, a bit less on-the-level.

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2025

The bushes thinned and the sounding bracken grew rarely in the the swampy earth, so that they could move three times as fast.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White