turbid

Example Sentences

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A very clear relationship emerged in the long term: intertidal areas only grow when the water is turbid enough.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2024

Standing on a bluff overlooking Iron Gate Dam, Hillman watched the turbid, chocolate-colored water flowing from a tunnel and passing downriver.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2024

Ukrainian troops evacuated its staff before a 4-meter wave of turbid, polluted water flooded the station and its breeding ponds.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 3, 2024

Within them, turbid pockets of gas were forced ever inward, kindling the fires that would end the cosmic dark ages.

From National Geographic • Sep. 14, 2023

The earth must have sunk a little here, because the river broadened and slowed, and it was hard for the skipper to trace his true course through the wide and turbid streams.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman