MARSHY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for MARSHY, such as:

1. The surrounding land is low and marshy.
2. Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all the marshy land in the vicinity.
3. We crossed the marshy bottom and passed over a quarter of a mile of dry, hard turf.
4. They wandered onward till they reached the nether margin of the heath, where it became marshy and merged in moorland.

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 Meanings and Examples of MARSHY
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marshy
 a.  muddy; swampy; resembling a marsh; boggy; soft and watery
Classic Sentence:
1  Sheds coat in the spring; in marshy countries, sheds hoofs, too.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
2  A damp mist rose from the river, and the marshy ground about; and spread itself over the dreary fields.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  They wandered onward till they reached the nether margin of the heath, where it became marshy and merged in moorland.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
4  It was damp, marshy ground, as is all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either side.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
5  We crossed the marshy bottom and passed over a quarter of a mile of dry, hard turf.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
6  Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all the marshy land in the vicinity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47. MARTHA
Example Sentence:
1  Five to ten rhinos are killed every year on average, mostly during Assam's devastating floods because they have to flee Kaziranga's low marshy lands to higher hills where they cannot be guarded.
2  Five to ten rhinos are killed every year, mostly during Assam's devastating floods because they have to flee Kaziranga's low marshy lands to higher hills.
3  The surrounding land is low and marshy.