mud

Example Sentences

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Residents described water rising to waist level in just hours — overwhelming properties that had never flooded before and leaving behind a thick layer of mud and debris.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

We were on a mud road, and I saw children, aged about 7 to 14, well dressed and walking to school.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Adams, 63, who has been contacted for comment, said in October that her name had been "dragged through the mud" and that the corporation had not given her the details of the allegations.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

Ms. DuBois, a feminist scholar and professor of history at University of California, Los Angeles, pulls Stanton’s reputation out of the mud by putting her words and actions into historical context.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

I walked through the mines, where tools were abandoned and the pans full of mud suggested that the villagers still were not finding much gold.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff