How to Use swampy in a Sentence

swampy

adjective

• An icy fog clung to the sides of the highway in the swampy area around Amherst.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2018
• There might be swampy parts of your yard near the roof drain.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2022
• The area is very swampy so be sure to bring your boots and watch out for bears.
  — Amy Aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 May 2018
• These strange and unique flowers grow in the damp and swampy wetlands that line the trails.
  — James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• 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
• There’s a swampy mix of rage, fear, and repression buried in the blacks of Michael Shannon’s eyes.
  — Esquire, 23 Feb. 2018
• And there are thousands of them, part of a vast and swampy floodplain forest.
  — Ben Raines, NOLA.com, 25 June 2017
• When the driver attempted to pull over on the side of the road, the bus entered a swampy area and became stuck in the mud.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
• The city was built on swampy ground, with its northern part hugging the Java Sea.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 27 Aug. 2019
• Not the deep longing to eject myself from the swampy streets of Manhattan.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appétit, 21 June 2019
• 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
• The weather has turned against us, and the plains, covered with snow two days ago, have turned to a swampy, shoe-sucking mud bog.
  — National Geographic, 4 Mar. 2016
• 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
• Not to pooh-pooh the Doobs and their smooth, aged take on swampy, countrified soul, but this show belongs to Steely Dan.
  — Philly.com, 5 July 2018
• Jakarta was first established by Dutch traders in a swampy area of coast.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Aug. 2019
• 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
• That comes from the marshy, swampy conditions that cut the town off from much of the city and forced many in the area to garden their own vegetables.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2017
• To their credit, the Poles did their best to make light of the swampy conditions, taking the game to the hosts and forcing some fine saves out of Sepp Maier.
  — SI.com, 9 June 2018
• 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
• The woods are the dense, deciduous, swampy kind, the kind in which rotting leaves mingle with the earth and the ground gives soft way beneath the boy’s feet.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 16 May 2017
• One friend took his grandson to the swampy glades of Spanish Fort, Alabama.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 21 Oct. 2020
• The kamala’s symbolic meaning is rooted in the fact that the lotus blooms in swampy waters but remains untouched by the dirt around it.
  — Archana Venkatesan, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
• This swampy area slowly created a layer of peat over time which protected them from decay.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024