How to Use swampy in a Sentence

swampy

adjective

• There might be swampy parts of your yard near the roof drain.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2022
• One was the sullen sky and swampy feel of humid late July.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 30 July 2022
• Bug spray may be necessary, as the trail is wet and swampy.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Feb. 2021
• The area was more swampy because of recent heavy rain, Blood said.
  — Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• Clearly, something’s rotten in the swampy state of Texas.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• Taylor Swift has battled rain, bugs and swampy summer heat over the course of the first four months of her Eras Tour.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 July 2023
• Since then, police have tried to corral him using a drone in the sky and a crew on the ground beating the bush in thick, swampy woods.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 9 Sep. 2020
• The swampy pool is not visible from the trail, but a nearby dirt road leads to its innards.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
• The body was found after deputies expanded their search in a swampy area along State Road 429, López said.
  — Amanda Rabines, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
• The study suggests the species lived mainly in swampy forests, as did the discovery of the fossilized teeth in a coal deposit.
  — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2022
• Not the actual water, of course, but this swampy green, fruity version of it.
  — Kari Sonde, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2020
• As the day waned, Merda found some concrete structures, which gave him respite from the swampy marshland.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2022
• When the van hit a dead-end road and got caught in a swampy area, the men ditched the van, and Schanda Handley, to try to escape police.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• One friend took his grandson to the swampy glades of Spanish Fort, Alabama.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 21 Oct. 2020
• Normally, collard greens are too swampy for me, but Tamarind’s isn’t like that.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 5 Aug. 2021
• The colorful cocktail comes in a round glass filled with bright blue liquid topped with a swampy dark green float.
  — Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2021
• My core stayed warm without letting my armpits get swampy, which is a feat indeed.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 18 Nov. 2020
• She was found about 12 houses down from the Anthony home with a blanket from the home, in garbage bags from the home, thrown into a swampy area.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
• The park is home to champion trees — that is, the largest in their species known to man — and was once a swampy hideout for bootleggers and runaway slaves.
  — Emily Pennington, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2021
• Her body was found six months later in a swampy wooded area near the overlook, the Green Bay Press Gazette has reported.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2022
• Some of the most beautiful and fragrant roses love shade, sand, swampy soil, and even the coldest winters.
  — Benjamin Whitacre, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Mar. 2023
• Some of those roads, homes, and business districts crossed what had once been impassable, swampy muskeg.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
• In a swampy area of the map, a dragon swoops down to ravage everything in its path — the player included.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2021
• Imagine a fish trying to make its way through a swampy, murky body of water versus a crystal-clear lake.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2022
• Authorities searched the area behind the home that had some swampy parts and a pond, Waters Merritt said.
  — Patricio G. Balona, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2022
• This track clocks in at nearly five minutes of righteous southern rock, which arrives via a swampy mesh of soul and funk.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2022
• The cop backed off, and the bull retreated into the thick, swampy woods where police tried to corral it on Monday morning.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• Northern snakeheads were first seen in the spring of 2002 when an angler hooked one in a swampy pond behind a shopping center in Crofton.
  — Jason Nark, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
• At the time, the region would have resembled something like a swampy bayou with muddy streams.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2020
• The Cripple checkpoint, by contrast, is little more than a plywood shack near a spruce thicket on a frozen swampy slough.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024