mucky

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

Now the water had become "mucky and cloudy" and "you can see build-ups of foam in a number of spots".

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025

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

There, the Dnipro now wends through a mucky patchwork of about 9000 newly formed small lakes and ephemeral ponds.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 3, 2024

As soon as we arrived at the mucky bank of the Kwenge, we spotted a problem.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver