Example sentences for: swampland

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

  • According to John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash , financial speculation during the 1920s grew so feverish that "even the cathedral voice of William Jennings Bryan, which once had thundered against the cross of gold," was "enlisted in the sorry task of selling swampland" in Florida.

  • At one time it was a very miserable valley, a swampland conducive only to breeding malarial mosquitoes.

  • Much of the bay was originally surrounded by swampland, until development plans prompted large-scale reclamation.

  • He also said that he had some Florida swampland, the Brooklyn Bridge, and a couple of hot Internet IPOs he wanted to sell us.


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