mucky

Example Sentences

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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

I tell her we’re doing a sort of mucky mascara thing, and she’s like ‘darling, nobody’s wearing mascara in New York'.”

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2024

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

That’s an ominous sign, said Kurta the Michigan scientist, donning waders to slosh across the mucky river bottom for the bat netting project in mid-June.

From Washington Times • Aug. 4, 2023

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

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver