MARSH in a Sentence

Learn MARSH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

80 example sentences for MARSH, such as:

1. They walked right across the marsh.
2. The marsh was dry and there were no grouse at all.
3. At the mouth of the river is a large area of marsh.
4. He handed the reins to Veslovsky and walked into the marsh.
5. Going back to my window, I could see the two men moving over the marsh.

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 Meanings and Examples of MARSH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
marsh
 n.  swamp; bog; low lying wet land with grassy vegetation
Classic Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1  Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
2  Once, I had been taken to one of our old marsh churches to see a skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress that had been dug out of a vault under the church pavement.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
3  The winking lights upon the bridges were already pale, the coming sun was like a marsh of fire on the horizon.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
4  Going back to my window, I could see the two men moving over the marsh.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIV
5  But whether Joe knew how poor I was, and how my great expectations had all dissolved, like our own marsh mists before the sun, I could not understand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVII
6  Look to the right, and you'll see a flat country, with a good deal of marsh in it; look to the left, and you'll see the same.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
7  Nothing was to be heard but the night sounds of the frogs that never ceased in the marsh, and the horses snorting in the mist that rose over the meadow before the morning.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
8  The marsh was dry and there were no grouse at all.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
9  When they reached a little marsh Levin would have driven by, but Stepan Arkadyevitch, with the experienced eye of a sportsman, at once detected reeds visible from the road.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 9
10  Before they had time to stop, the dogs had flown one before the other into the marsh.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 9
11  They walked right across the marsh.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 9
12  Except little birds and peewits, of which Vassenka killed one, there was nothing in the marsh.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 9
13  When they reached the second marsh, which was fairly large, and would inevitably take some time to shoot over, Levin tried to persuade them to pass it by.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 9
14  Again, as the marsh was narrow, Levin, like a good host, remained with the carriage.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 9
15  He handed the reins to Veslovsky and walked into the marsh.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 9
Example Sentence:
1  The jail was a trifling little brick den that stood in a marsh at the edge of the village.
2  At the mouth of the river is a large area of marsh.
3  Professor Paterson thinks there's merit in another plan for floating artificial marshes in the Lagoon to help break up the most destructive waves.