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Example sentences for: swamps
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Antimony is so called from Greek antimonos , against single(ness) owing to its readiness to react with other substances, but its chemical symbol is Sb, from Latin stibium , the name of a cosmetic and medicinal powder (antimony sulfide) used by Roman women as a hair blackener for their eyebrows, and in ophthalmology (of which there were many Etruscan specialists, thanks in part to the unhealthy swamps of Rome's Tuscan hinterlands) as an eye ointment.
On one of the seven hills of ancient Rome, the fortress-like Palazzo del Quirinale, once summer residence to popes fleeing the malarial swamps of the Vatican down by the Tiber, housed the new king of Italy after 1870, and since 1947 is the presidential palace.
Another word whose origin is shrouded in the mists of antiquity—like the swamps of Etruria, a notoriously foggy place.
Collapsed limestone caves and tidal seawater mangrove swamps provide a perfect home for herons, tropical frogs, and many species of fish.
If getting into the water isn’t for you, then take a glass-bottom boat ride; trips navigate the mangrove swamps or venture out to the ocean reefs.