swampy

IPA: swˈɑmpi

adjective

Soggy and marshy; wet like a swamp.
Flowing smoothly with no harsh tones but possibly including muddy tones.

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.

swampy

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