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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