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

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

Eventually, Kingshaw crawled on his hands and knees back over the concrete and the mucky straw, on to the sacks.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill