Example sentences for: marshy

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • On the south side of the street — in the open ground below the castle and on the site of the formerly marshy Nor’ Loch — are Princes Street Gardens, a welcome place to relax in a sunny day.


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