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

We're off and running in what I'll generously call mucky conditions in West Yorkshire.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 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

The path was here rocky, there carpeted with pine needles, occasionally damp and mucky where tiny springs trickled across.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols