How to Use marsh in a Sentence

marsh

noun
  • To the north, she is linked to a marsh, and to the west a canal ties her to Lake Hart.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
  • To the west stretched the total black darkness of the marsh.
    Gena Steffens, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
  • We're seated on the edge of a small marsh near the mouth of the Slough Creek drainage.
    Jacob Job, Scientific American, 4 June 2021
  • The lake is edged by tules and has a small island and a marsh.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The marsh has been through my mom’s side of the family.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Go to the shooting range, or invite them to watch the sun rise in the marsh.
    Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The work isn’t done, and the marsh isn’t yet beautified.
    Jen Schwartz, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2018
  • The seafood and fish were caught from the fecundity of the marsh.
    Padma Lakshmi, Time, 24 June 2020
  • Oil seeps into the marsh mud and affects the worms and snails.
    Joan Meiners, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The birds can be found in fields, farms, brush and marsh edges and stay in an area year-round.
    Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The space will evoke the magical marsh where Tiana and Naveen take refuge in the film.
    Tim Walters, USA TODAY, 29 July 2021
  • Gilbert and his wife have been camping in their RV next to the marsh since April.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • This is the third year in a row that a family of swans has been raised up in the marsh.
    Bob Hallinen, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2022
  • Wood ducks will come to a roost site, often a marsh, in the evening by the hundreds.
    Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Bring your own boat and launch from the Greenhead Landing on the east side of the marsh, west of Mayville.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2018
  • Shannan's purse, shoes, cell phone -- even her jeans were found in the marsh.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Her body was found a week later, in a marsh a few miles away.
    James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The marsh is expected to take at least four years to build.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Some know the marsh along Turnagain Arm used to scream with the calls of pipers, snipe, ducks and geese.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Ravenna, a jewel in the midst of a marsh, was a place of paradox.
    Anthony Kaldellis, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Her dear friend's body wasn't found for a week, in a marsh near the Broad River about 5 miles away.
    Elijah Nouvelage For Cnn, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The marshes, pitch pines and scrub oaks give an outer Cape Cod feel to the park.
    Peter Marteka, courant.com, 15 May 2018
  • The marsh there feels endless, the live oaks along the shoreline ancient.
    Michael Adno, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • The study at the Chesapeake marsh did in fact represent all plants.
    Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The people who came down to the docks that morning lived on a lump of mud and marsh about 12 miles from the mainland.
    Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • The sketch showed a drake and hen mallard dropping into a marsh.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The Holkham estate sits in the middle of the north Norfolk coast, a bulging rump of fields and marshes on the North Sea.
    Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2019
  • To his right, colors bloomed in the marshes, the tents of homeless people.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • So dry spots within a marsh are where deer will bed and find sanctuary.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The park has eight walking trails of varying lengths and habitats, including forests, marshes, fields, and hammocks.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024

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