How to Use murky waters in a Sentence

murky waters

plural noun

• Swimmers are advised to stay away from seals or murky waters and keep close to the shore.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• Everything south of the dam was swallowed by the murky waters of the river.
  — Jędrzej Nowicki, The Atlantic, 31 July 2023
• There are far worse ways to spend a winter night than to dive into Decision's murky waters, and get lost.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• Those eyes are enlarged for a reason, as the gonad will often need to navigate in murky waters.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
• Louisiana may be best known for its marshlands, but don't let the murky waters fool you — this state is full of stunning beaches, too.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
• While scouring the murky waters off the coast of Slovenia, divers discovered a trove of ancient artifacts.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024
• These are not quite nightmares, and not quite reveries, but images dispatched from some liminal zone between the two, which is perhaps where the murky waters of our minds run the deepest.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
• In 1969, a few downtown business leaders dumped gallons of Army-grade green dye into the murky waters of the river flowing through downtown San Antonio.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Mar. 2023
• The evolution of this unusual ability to make loud noises likely played a role in the fish’s adaptation to murky waters in Myanmar.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Experts also recommend swimming in groups and avoiding murky waters where a shark might confuse them for marine life.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 19 Aug. 2023
• If anything, the conflict between the two giants shows how short video formats, where users can pluck out parts of an audio and turn those into their own snippet, continues to operate in murky waters.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 29 Feb. 2024
• Yet despite such widespread backing and the White House’s behind-the-scenes lobbying, Shaw-Wilder’s nomination has run aground in the murky waters of judicial politics.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
• With their superior sense of smell, catfish navigate and forage in murky waters, often using high-water events in rivers or scavenging the pond bottoms for a meal.
  — Outdoor Life, 30 Nov. 2023
• Roughly 70 percent of countries today have enacted policies meant to protect a diminishing shark population—yet the fate of the world’s sharks remains in murky waters.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
• The dragonfly unexpectedly landed on the turtle’s nose, but instead of snapping up the insect, the turtle appeared to be experiencing pleasure from the interaction in the midst of the swamp’s murky waters.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Removing the bridge debris will also allow divers to search the murky waters of the Patapsco River for the bodies of four bridge workers missing and presumed dead following Tuesday's catastrophic collapse.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2024
• As the games commence, a migraine-inducing amount of criticism has dominated the headlines, ranging from ongoing security concerns to unsold tickets to the murky waters of the Seine River.
  — Gavin Poole, Fortune Europe, 30 July 2024
• And more sophisticated incarnations have allowed some physicists to venture further into the murky waters of quantum field theory, and recently string theory.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• Both actresses will dive headfirst into the murky waters of the Skrulls' clandestine infiltration of powerful organizations and governments from, ostensibly, two very different sides of the conflict.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2023
• With that ideological divide widening and partisan viewpoints holding sway, navigating these murky waters requires caution.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024