How to Use swampland in a Sentence

swampland

noun

• In the next few months, the great frozen swamplands of Alaska will soften and green.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
• The gator likely came up through nearby swampland and travelled across the base golf course to reach the flight line.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2019
• This was all swampland once, the soil so sludgy and unstable the Swedes who tried to settle here in the 1600s gave up and moved north.
  — Adam Erace, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2021
• The city sat on 650 acres of swampland where the Expo Center, the raceway and golf course are today.
  — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
• And both seem to be taking place deep in the holler, somewhere near a swampland and in outer space all at once.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Aug. 2022
• Clumps of matchsticks are groves of Moriche palms, thriving in swampland.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2012
• But as the city expanded westward in the 1920s, the lima bean fields were plowed under and the swampland drained to make room for homes.
  — Scott Garner, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The snake is an invasive species and has damaged the state’s swampland ecosystem.
  — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2019
• But 12 miles west in Doral, there wasn't much of anything - other than the golf resort and miles of swampland.
  — miamiherald, 17 May 2016
• Ohio residents, by and large, did not appear to miss their state’s swampland.
  — Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Once upon a time, the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain consisted of so much unused swampland.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 2 Jan. 2018
• The students train for 62 days with minimal food and little sleep, and learn how to operate in the woods, mountains and swamplands.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 4 Sep. 2019
• Mastodon bones were first discovered in swampland in Phillips Park in January 1934.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 24 Feb. 2018
• Beneath its artificial shine lies dark, primeval swampland; a gulf divides the seen from the unseen.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• This forged a unique culture in the area, which was largely swampland and was drained at the turn of the 20th century, with mostly working-class residents settling the land.
  — John L. Dorman, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• After a night fending off swarms of mosquitoes in swamplands near the river, [Mauricio Posadas] and his son were caught by the Border Patrol [last month].
  — Rachel Van Dongen, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
• To this day, no paved roads traverse the swampland separating it from mainland Russia.
  — Eva Sohlman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• Like much of the state’s serpentine swampland, Alexander Springs Wilderness is best explored by paddling.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 26 July 2021
• The Trumps weren’t selling useless swampland in Florida.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2017
• While Botswana’s northern swampland was ridden with disease-carrying tsetse flies and malaria, Mr. Selby and his clients traversed the bush in style.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2018
• Drainage tiles allowed removal of water from the surface of the soil, and made wonderfully rich swampland available for farming.
  — Gwen Pearson, WIRED, 4 Aug. 2014
• In the film, familiar species flourish in lush swampland but eventually succumb to a more hellish climate.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2019
• Forests, swamplands, deserts, grasslands, and coastal salt marshes are some of the habitats that play an important part in providing shelter, food sources, and breeding grounds for many species.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
• Desimone bought and drained swamplands along the Duwamish to create fertile farmland that in time gave way to Boeing’s industrial needs.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 29 Apr. 2017
• The graveyard in the neighboring village of Kwigillingok, or Kwig, is also sinking into swampland.
  — Author: Teresa Cotsirilos, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• The Amtrak’s passenger cars were lit up, silhouetting the train against the swampland as all passengers remained aboard.
  — John Pacenti, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2019
• The drought has dried out the vegetation and turned the brushes, grasses and small trees of southern Louisiana's swampland into the perfect kindling.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2023
• Then there's the state's strange geography: swampland infested with alligators and pythons, the most sinkholes in the nation.
  — Author: Logan Hill, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2019
• Archival footage and stellar images of the band practicing endlessly in a rundown cabin in a swamplands filled with gators and mosquitos underscore what the band was all about.
  — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Deeply familiar with the terrain, the Maya constructed their biggest settlements in places that were mostly safe from natural disaster, with the surrounding swampland insulating Tikal from 1976’s worst aftershocks.
  — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024