Example sentences for: marshland

How can you use “marshland” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Originally known as Edo (meaning “estuary”), Tokyo was just a sleepy little village surrounded by marshland on the broad Kanto plain until the end of the 16th century, when Tokugawa Ieyasu moved here and made it the center of his vast domains.

  • John Law, a Scotsman, financier, and high-rolling gambler, on the run from England after a fatal duel, saw the possibility of promoting this distant marshland as a paradise.

  • Prairie Indians hunted buffalo by forcing the herds onto marshland, snowbanks, thin ice, or over cliffs — one of these nasty surprises being known to this day as the Head-Smashed-In buffalo jump, near Fort MacLeod, Alberta.

  • Mangrove trees and shrubs grow on coastal marshland in the brackish zone between the sea and fresh water.

  • There are a number of new hotels at Georgioúpolis, a resort with a long sandy beach and freshwater marshland on its western edge.


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