mucky

Example Sentences

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It's mucky, it's horrible and not a nice position for anyone to be in.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

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

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

Plug was quite the gentleman as we picked our way around patches of mucky gumbo the next morning.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson