turbid

Example Sentences

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To preserve the important intertidal areas and salt marshes off our coasts for the future, we need more turbid water.

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 name is inappropriate, for actually it is a rather turbid lake because of the soft black ooze that covers its shallow bottom.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson