mucky

Example Sentences

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The trees won’t take in wetlands, in mucky soils.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

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

But I wonder how many other 23-year-olds get up every day at five in the morning for the mucky, and vital, job of milking?

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2024

In “New Heraldry,” Seattle artist Sara Osebold imagines a new world after “total collapse,” through canvas drawings and clay sculptures imprinted with mysterious, textlike symbols and ceramic fragments found in mucky Seattle creek beds.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2024

Double especially because the sound was followed by sticky, mucky, stepped-on-a-piece-of-tape footsteps.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia