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

The congregants line the banks and sing ‘Amazing Grace” as Dill wades unsteadily into the river, sinking into its mucky bottom as he tries to reach where his father stands, smiling.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner