Example sentences for: marshy

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

  • Two ponds provide a marshy wetland, complemented by a coastal cliff environment beloved by terns and visiting longtails.

  • While toilet and lavatory have discarded their original meanings, terms such as bog retained their original meanings (a marshy place) as well as being understood in Britain as a slang synonym for a toilet; it achieved an entry in Hotten's dictionary as early as 1864 as a privy as distinguished from a water-closet.

  • The interior of San Salvador is dotted with lakes; there is a great deal of marshy land and only one major road.

  • Narrow cobbled streets plunge downhill to a quay and market where boats bob at anchor on a wide, marshy lagoon.

  • Something must have been appealing about the marshy outlet of the River Amstel where it meets the River IJ (pronounced “Ay”) — a tidal inlet of the Zuider Zee — even although the area flooded on a regular basis with water forced in by the prevailing winter winds.


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