swampy
IPA: swˈɑmpi
adjective
- Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp.
- Flowing smoothly with no harsh tones but possibly including muddy tones.
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Examples of "swampy" in Sentences
- Rice is grown in the swampy plains.
- In the early 1800s, the land was a swampy forest.
- Much of the land in south of Toorak Road was swampy.
- At the east edge of the Fishing Pond is a swampy area.
- In 1918 work began to fill the swampy areas of the park.
- Here the swampy region of Emsland is named after the river.
- The story is set primarily in the swampy southern town of Wet Moon.
- The north is dominated by the swampy valley of the Freshwater River.
- During the Middle Ages the village was along the swampy, winding river.
- In previous aeras, it was the floodplain of the Aare and is thus swampy.
- They were sometimes held in swampy areas teeming with snakes and malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
- Their car swerved off the road and onto the median which was soggy to the point of swampy from a recent rainstorm.
- The pilots changed course and headed for an airport near McComb, Mississippi but the plane stalled near Gillsburg, Mississippi and crashed in swampy woods.
- (In the interior, there is more likely to be a couple of big boulders across the road, diverting you to the shoulder; in swampy areas there is no shoulder.)
- Once I came home, I had lost the golden thread that was guiding me and to make matters worse, I had come to a portion of the book I call the swampy middle of doom.
- A long succession of boiling rapids and waterfalls having in days of yore obstructed the passage of the fur-traders, they had landed at the top of them, and cut a pathway through the woods, which happened at this place to be exceedingly swampy: hence the name Savan (or _swampy_) Portage.
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