muddy

It’s hard to know from his palette what thrills him, or if he sees colors at all, given the film’s muddy, deadening grayscape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Fast-flowing muddy water burst the banks of 40 rivers and waterways in Guangxi, damaging nearly 13,000 acres of agricultural land, state media reported.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

“For example, after cleaning a window, I’ll let the paper towel dry and save it under the sink. Later, I use it to clean up muddy messes or pet accidents.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

A white Ford pickup truck broke through a thick curtain of fog one morning in February, winding its way down a muddy farm road in California’s Central Valley.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

The ground was muddy from all the rain, and the mist made it hard to see where we were going.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

At that point, the legal questions get even muddier.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025

In a statement issued through Cumbria Police, Mr and Mrs Cartmell said "Jay loved being outdoors" and "the muddier he could get the better".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2024

Yet as the smoke cleared and the fallout from the launch became apparent, the implications—for Starship itself and SpaceX’s southern Texas Starbase launch site—grew muddier.

From Scientific American ● May 4, 2023

But waiting on construction was not an option, because as the water rises, the banks will become muddier, making it difficult for heavy equipment to maneuver.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

Everything’s getting muddier and it’s making us slow down.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

This is likely due to the high silt content of the riverbed; the Yellow River—the muddiest in the world—is named for the heavy loads of silt it carries.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 10, 2022

“It’s a high road and, as all the muddiest are, both unassailable pure and also solidly earthed.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

On the second lap, I tripped and fell in a woodsy area coating myself with the muddiest mud.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 11, 2019

Freedman's people are the ones with the muddiest shoes and wettest clothes, the people with the most to gain and most to lose.

From Time ● Oct. 26, 2017

He crawled along the gully in the direction that seemed the muddiest.

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

Ms. Nović’s habit of jumping from her life story at one age to another and then back again muddies the timeline as well as the reader’s understanding of what happened when.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

“Old inventory muddies the income statement. Cohort performance tells you that this new Opendoor 2.0 machine works.”

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026

That story and all the thematic clones emerging in its wake center contradictory thought as heroic and easily imperiled because it muddies a convenient, consolidated prescription of how the world should work.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025

And so it muddies the waters in terms of how people might respond to it.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2025

"Break for it, before anybody else gets there and muddies the water."

From Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign by McElroy, John

This is where it starts to get muddied.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2026

Over the weekend Haseeb Hameed and Dom Sibley, two openers from England's past eyeing a recall, also made centuries which muddied the selection waters further.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

This movie exists for two reasons: to make money, and to polish Jackson’s muddied legacy.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026

What’s Next: Uncertainty about when conflict will end has muddied forecasts.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

I stare at the muddied water as it swirls down the drain.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

The group also claimed responsibility for attacks that never happened, further muddying the water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

Yet the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, personal consumption expenditures, rose 0.4% in December from the prior month and 3% from a year earlier, muddying the case for rate cuts.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

It allows both parties to get the best price they believe they can afford or believe is fair without muddying the waters with personal obligations and emotional leverage.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 19, 2026

But muddying the issue is the often totally random nature of dog attacks.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

They rushed over the path to the bank of the river and skidded down the last yards of incline, muddying their shoes.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez