How to Use mudflat in a Sentence

mudflat

noun

• From midafternoon to dark, the tides will roll back and unveil miles of beach and bay mudflats.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• Among the highlights are Emeryville mudflats sculpture and the gay theater troupe the Angels of Light.
  — Staff and Correspondents, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2017
• Noyes to beach it in the mudflats at Clay and Sansome streets, in the center of the commercial district.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
• The mudflats of Bristol Bay have a huge variety of seabirds.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2019
• Deposits from the volcano were washed down into the mudflat.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2020
• Before then, much of the town center existed on land that is now tidal mudflats.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2023
• Irish was drawn to a mudflat littered with glass bottles, which clinked and crunched underfoot.
  — Laura Preston, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• Canada's Bay of Fundy is similar to Cook Inlet with its large tides and mudflats.
  — Nancy Lord, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Aug. 2017
• Troops would then have a long slog over Taiwan's western mudflats and mountains to reach the capital, Taipei.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 23 June 2019
• Her body was found on mudflats near Greenhithe, England on Tuesday.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• There are wetlands, mudflats, and salt marshes too, all of which help support more than 200 species of wild animals.
  — National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2017
• This is a quick primer in four parts, by four people who've spent a lot of time wandering around in blizzards and mudflats with notebooks and camera gear.
  — Erin McKittrick, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 July 2017
• Laman was in Venezuela's Orinoco Basin searching for scarlet ibises, bright orange-red birds that roost among the tangle of mangrove roots and sticky mudflats at dusk.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
• Low tide was notoriously noxious, when raw sewage and garbage on the mudflats were exposed.
  — Courtney Humphries, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Still, in moist environments like mudflats, mudskippers can be seen rolling around in the mud to keep a sheen on their skin, flipping side to side in puddles to cool down and freshen up.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
• Students hike along trails and view animals as well as local beach, mudflat and upland habitats.
  — Karen Pearlman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• Liutkus-Pierce and her team think that the ash-rich mud containing the footprints originally washed off Ol Doinyo Lengai’s flanks, making its way downhill to form the mudflats.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 10 Oct. 2016
• At the foot of Johnson Street, a large hunk of metal was half awash — apparently the fuel tank or some remnant of the old lumber schooner Lassen, which was retired and run up on the mudflat more than 80 years ago.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 22 Feb. 2020
• Around 50 dinosaur footprints that date to the Middle Jurassic Period were found on ancient coastal mudflats.
  — Fox News, 13 Mar. 2020
• As the Potomac slowed below its last rapids – where the river entered the District of Columbia – the silt precipitated into massive mudflats on the city side of the river.
  — Carl Abbott, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2017
• From its tidal mudflats and fruit farms to the the famous museum and gardens, Sandringham is a versatile estate that has seen many a royal occasion.
  — Chanel Vargas, Town & Country, 13 Dec. 2017
• Restoration continued on the mudflats, seasonal wetlands, coastal prairie and coastal scrub areas.
  — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• The Lucerne is similar to the Arosa but will be built for four to six passengers, while the Olten is targeted toward first-response and search-and-rescue missions for ice, floodwaters, and shallows like mudflats.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2023
• Yet more tracks suggest that around a dozen people, mostly women and children, traveled across the mudflat together, striking toward the southwest for parts unknown.
  — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 10 Oct. 2016
• Aerial images showed a landscape of spider-webbed mudflats and desiccated tributaries as the reservoir fell to levels not seen in almost forty years.
  — Jeremy Miller, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2017
• An in-depth footprint analysis has now produced an intriguing theory to explain what the walkers were doing on the day when impressions of their toes and soles were preserved on a mudflat.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2020
• Ria Formosa Nature Park, with its lagoons, sand dunes, islands, marshes, and mudflats, makes for exceptional hiking and spotting wildlife.
  — Lindsay Lambert Day, Vogue, 1 July 2017
• The hyper-aggressive grass crowds out native species, and eats up acre upon acre of tidal mudflat that countless migrating shorebirds desperately need.
  — William Poor, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2018
• After a brutal opening challenge involving a race to haul a heavy flagpole across mudflats, the teams are distributed across a variety of shelters — some actual houses, others in mere tents — around the island.
  — Siren Goes Off, Vulture, 16 June 2023
• One set of footprints, found in a layer of compressed sand on a beach in the United Kingdom and dated by its geological context, recorded children and adults apparently migrating across a mudflat.
  — Andrew Curry, Science | AAAS, 30 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024