How to Use mucky in a Sentence

mucky

adjective

• In what may always be a mucky business, a few have cleaned up The World for Sale.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2021
• And things are too mucky right now with the 7-7 teams and crossover schedules to project where that might go.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 18 Dec. 2022
• Hour after hour the rivers brought it in—sand from the infant Rockies, the mucky stuff of ecosystems.
  — Wired, 29 July 2022
• Tom Strzyz sulked in the muggy air outside his mucky apartment.
  — Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2021
• The mucky brown-green water from the canal had risen several feet outside.
  — Janine Zeitlin, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2022
• If the water starts to get mucky for whatever reason, just drain and refill.
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 23 May 2022
• The 1,600-gram Thinsulate boot will keep them warm in the mucky icy water and the two-piece traction outsole will keep them from slipping in it.
  — Chris Meehan, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2022
• Just don't bring the muckier parts of it inside to build up and contaminate our homes.
  — Mark Patrick Taylor, CBS News, 26 May 2023
• The durable and lightweight sacks are also breathable (through the drawstring opening) for any mucky pairs that may need a bit of extra airing out.
  — Talia Ergas, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2023
• The insect likely fell into one of the ancient lakes that covered this region and sank into the soft, mucky bottom.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 20 Jan. 2021
• At the top of the hike was a signpost with a large photo of Mount Olympus and her sparkling white sister peaks, quietly levitating in their icy realm far above the mucky smoke.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 13 Aug. 2021
• That’s an ominous sign, said Mr. Kurta, the Michigan scientist, donning waders to slosh across the mucky river bottom for the bat netting project in mid-June.
  — John Flesher, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2023
• Second, make sure the area around the animal is relatively clean; a pile of dirt or a mucky puddle could also transfer microbes to the meat.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2022
• Here again, the subtleties are dispensed with—campaigns are a mucky, mind-numbing business, and The Candidate is intent on us knowing it.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
• At this writing, the creekside trail was overgrown, mucky and difficult to navigate.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2021
• Josh, back home, and Dalton, at college, are estranged but linked by their demon sightings, confronting this or that mucky spirit from the Further.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 July 2023
• During a recent bike tour of the creek’s historical route, some of the original banks contained mucky brown water.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2022
• Combine that with an outer made of mostly ripstop nylon (which cuts weight), and a rugged rubber toe cap, and the Comfort High ($199) moves fast in mucky conditions.
  — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
• Mud season ― right before spring when thawing ice causes mucky roads — and stick season — right before winter when trees are bare and gourds are everywhere.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
• Plumbing the mucky bottoms of lakes, rivers and San Francisco Bay for dead bodies is highly technical, sometimes gruesome work.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2023
• Redd walked out behind his house, through other backyards, then brush, then irrigation ditches, then a mucky expanse of wetlands.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 6 June 2023
• On a mucky stretch of sea floor, a dead sea lion had fallen to its final resting place, a colorful array of bat stars (Patiria miniata) strewn across its body like flowers tossed onto a grave.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
• Relationships and dynamics within the band were getting mucky with or without my contributions to the filth.
  — Joe Trohman, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2022
• Santos’ mother could indeed be among those, but the details are mucky, given his initial suggestion that Santos’ mother lost her life on the actual day.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
• During the winter, these mucky flatlands freeze over, providing a more stable terrain for heavy military vehicles that would otherwise get stuck in the mud.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• High-power vacuums also excel in wet suction, slurping up liquid and mucky messes much better than a low-power vac.
  — Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 15 July 2023
• Another convenient feature is the carry handles that allow for easy storage without grabbing onto the mucky deck or wheels after mowing.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2022
• Florida hunters are accustomed to trudging through mucky swamps to kill challenging Osceola turkeys.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2021
• Despite thriving in shallow, weedy, mucky areas, snakeheads do not gravitate to decaying forage.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 20 July 2023
• Other researchers, having studied the Amazon up close in mucky fieldwork, object to the use of computer models that apply uniform assumptions to this multifarious biome.
  — Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024