How to Use murky in a Sentence

murky

adjective

• She peered into one of the church's murky chapels.
• The fourth floor was murkier still, the fifth even worse.
  — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
• In the background, the murky ocean and cloudy skies can be seen as the two stand on a deck.
  — Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
• At that point, the details were still murky: at 10:22 P.M.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
• Turns out, the origins of the Key lime pie are a little murky.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 27 June 2023
• That makes the right-versus-wrong sense of this more than murky.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2024
• The boy's white t-shirt had a murky tinge in a post-mortem photo.
  — Rosa Flores and Rosalina Nieves, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
• There are parts of it that are very murky and there are parts of it that are quite vivid.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
• But that bill’s path to passing in the Senate is murky.
  — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 22 May 2024
• The inclusion of roast beef just seemed to muck up the mix, which read as a murky, meaty mash.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• This is where things get murky, based on the Michigan usage.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
• The water in this part of the Seine, on the western edge of Paris, is only slightly murky.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
• So, Mingo, last year’s No. 39 pick, has a bit of a murky setup.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2024
• But much about the the agreement, which was brokered by Lukashenko, remains murky.
  — Anna Frants, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
• And the events leading up to the discovery of the body on her property are murky, even to her.
  — Karla Peterson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• Both the answer — and the conditions — are a little murky.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 31 May 2024
• Slowak is painting her love life, her fantasies, and the murky night world of her desire.
  — Agata Slowak’s Personal Jesus, Vulture, 21 June 2023
• But the provenance of some of the more alarmist Biden-is-feeble memes, many of them built on raw footage of a few stumbles, is murky.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024
• That means when the Bengals’ offense has had murky starts this year, its struggled to find a rhythm.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2022
• Moody’s track record is even murkier, perhaps through no fault of his own.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
• The art market might be a murky place, but stealing is still stealing, and fraud is still fraud.
  — Rosa Lyster, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
• The broth should become a murky yellow-brown, with some fat on its surface.
  — Amethyst Ganaway, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• The arrangement gets murky when sparks start to fly between them.
  — Leah Hall, Country Living, 8 Dec. 2022
• Thick, murky chords fall over one another to emerge, as the work moves fitfully from one state to the next.
  — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• The murky dregs of my iced oat latte condensate all over my desk.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 17 July 2022
• What’s more, the waters around the Ace are visibly—and legally—murky.
  — Andrew Lawrence, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2022
• Like many beloved food items, the exact origin of churros is more than murky.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Aug. 2022
• The murky sediment load carried by one keeps its distance from the clear blue-green of the other.
  — Marianne Karplus, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
• This includes everything from his murky injury status at the beginning of the year to his three-game suspension for an altercation with a reporter, which combined to keep him off the court for Philly’s first nine games.
  — Tony Jones, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
• At a moment when Xi is positioning China as protector of globalization in the Trump 2.0 era, India fending off questions about murky corporate governance practices and credit rating companies demanding answers is quite the split-screen.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024