marshland

Example Sentences

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Northern Sweden, where the training took place, is a web of rivers, lakes and marshland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Search teams combed the barren marshland on foot near to where he was found while a helicopter and drones searched for any clues on how and why he got there.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025

As a two-time cancer survivor, she has tried to avoid the Stauffer site and Blair landfill, which is shrouded by marshland off the San Francisco Bay Trail.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2024

Cities built on drained marshland or fill are especially vulnerable to compaction.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2024

At the day’s end they came to a stream that wandered down from the hills to lose itself in the stagnant marshland, and they went up along its banks while the light lasted.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien