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

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

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

While she was waiting, she dunked her brush into a plastic cup of mucky, murky water.

From "George" by Alex Gino