sludge

Example Sentences

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In the open sewer outside, plastic bags and bottles drift through charcoal-grey sludge, its stench thick in the air.

From BBC

Residents at the time described seeing slurry carrying "trees and big boulders", and buildings left deep in sludge and mud.

From BBC

Divers are working in shifts to clear sludge.

From BBC

Nestled in a clearing between rye fields and lush jungle, the bases on one of the few baseball diamonds in the Philippines’ Tanauan City sat in sludge.

From Los Angeles Times

Decaying skin and flesh had disintegrated into flakes, creating films of gray sludge on the water’s surface.

From New York Times