marshland

Example Sentences

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Amid this gentle drama, Jewett depicts the marshland, where “the lines of the creeks made a broad tracery whichever way one looked.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Proposals to breach the banks to create the new marshland have gone down very badly.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2024

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

Rice fields are carved into mountainsides in an elaborate series of terraces, or painstakingly constructed from marshland and river plains.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell