MURKY in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for MURKY, such as:

1. The light was too murky to continue playing.
2. Here and there a man has raised his head above these murky waters.
3. The truth about your murky past is safe with me — my lips are sealed.
4. Outside, away from the glow of the fire and the soft lamplight, the night was chill and murky.
5. A cold current of air passed them, and the light shot up for a moment in a flame of murky orange.

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 Meanings and Examples of MURKY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
murky
 a.  dark and gloomy; thick with fog; vague
Classic Sentence:
1  And last the murky yellow cars of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad looking cheerful as Christmas itself on the tracks beside the gate.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  Still, the long, long night seemed heavy and hopeless as ever, and no promise of day was in the murky sky.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
3  Outside, away from the glow of the fire and the soft lamplight, the night was chill and murky.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
4  The murky, lowering sky, which had depressed her a few hours before, seemed bracing and invigorating as she splashed through the streets on her way home.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
5  The lamps were still burning redly in the murky air and, across the river, the palace of the Four Courts stood out menacingly against the heavy sky.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
6  A cold current of air passed them, and the light shot up for a moment in a flame of murky orange.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
7  Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  Holmes's cold, thin fingers closed round my wrist and led me forward down a long hall, until I dimly saw the murky fanlight over the door.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
9  In murky fires I will follow far away, and when chill death hath severed body from soul, my ghost will haunt thee in every region.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
10  Here and there a man has raised his head above these murky waters.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
11  To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
Example Sentence:
1  The light was too murky to continue playing.
2  He became involved in the murky world of international drug-dealing.
3  The truth about your murky past is safe with me — my lips are sealed.
4  The murky depths of the swamp were so dark that one couldn't tell the vines and branches from the snakes.