How To Use Marshy In A Sentence

He was one of the first 19th century sailors who tamed the seas through science, inventing systems for transporting cannon over marshy ground, ciphers for code and a system of hydrographical surveys.
The south slope is more gentle and ends in a marshy bay.
Marshy tongues of land determined property lines more than geometric principles of land settlement.
Three lakes are also found in this park, providing habitat for a variety of waterbirds as well as antelope species with a preference for marshy or open, grassy habitat such as sitatunga, oribi (Ourebia ourebi), waterbuck, tsessebe, and lechwe (Kobus leche). Angolan Miombo woodlands
Habitat and Ecology: In ponds , paddy and other marshy or flooded areas.

The once stable, slow - moving, marshy perennial river transformed into an unstable, flood-prone, intermittent stream.
Inarus, the author of the revolt, was betrayed, and perished on the cross, and the whole of Egypt once more succumbed to the Persian yoke, save only that portion called the marshy or fenny parts (under the dominion of a prince named Amyrtaeus), protected by the nature of the soil and the proverbial valour of the inhabitants. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
In the summer, they breed on marshy, lowland tundra at the northern limits of the boreal forest.
While toilet and lavatory have discarded their original meanings, terms such as bog retained their original meanings (` a marshy place ') as well as being understood in Britain as a slang synonym for a toilet; it achieved an entry in Hotten's dictionary as early as 1864 as "a privy as distinguished from a water-closet. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
The balsam is less common, generally found in marshy spots, in company with its kinsman, the tamarack, which in summer, at least, has all the appearance of an evergreen. Rural Hours
In August 1935 , we began our march across the marshy grassland.
Krishna Pandit did the same and was extremely happy when the snake guided him through the swampy and marshy land, until he reached the hollow trunk of a mulberry tree.
Cross marshy ground to a cairn, and after 300 yards you will reach the trig point on top of Auchineden Hill.
It also prefers large cities over rural or marshy areas—thus earning the nickname among entomologists as "the urban mosquito. Attack of the Urban Mosquitoes
Houses included piled structures with stone hearths set in marshy ground.
Through marshy headlands rivers and fertile streams trickled, and the wind-swift archer's horses of the loyalist soldiers of Adiabene drank their fill.
While many observers noted the unhealthfulness of the marshy tidewater zone, they also emphasized the richness of the land and its potential for economic development.
Then he tried to force his half-starved cabayo through a marshy area. Fire The Sky
In the marshy districts is seen the large elater, which displays both red and green lights; the red glare, like that of a lamp, alternately flashing on the beholder, then concealed as the insect turns his body in flight, but the ruddy reflection on the grass beneath being constantly visible as it leisurely pursues its course. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
The nest of the flamingo is a curious affair; usually built in a marshy, muddy place, in the form of a mound. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878
One which was marshy was white for weeks together with the lady's-smock or cuckoo-flower. Round About a Great Estate
The air in summer is reckoned unwholesome by the exhalations arising from stagnant water in the neighbourhood of the city, which stands in the midst of a fertile plain, low and marshy: yet these marshes have been considerably drained, and the air is much meliorated. Travels through France and Italy
Lopnur (ph), a marshy depression at the east end of the Tarim Basin is a nuclear test site for which country? CNN Transcript May 22, 2002
They roost at night in reedy or marshy areas near Lake Chapala or irrigation ditches. One for the birds in Ajijic, Mexico
The surrounding land is low and marshy.
The sea was thus kept shallow, and at times, especially toward the close of the era, much of the area was upbuilt or raised to low, marshy, coastal plains. The Elements of Geology
The balsam is less common, generally found in marshy spots, in company with its kinsman, the tamarack, which in summer, at least, has all the appearance of an evergreen. Rural Hours
Iza dug up the red-rooted pigweed and headed for a marshy area beside sluggish backwater and found scouring-rush horsetail ferns and, farther upstream, soaproot. The Clan of the Cave Bear
Habitat and Ecology: In ponds , paddy fields and other marshy or flooded areas.
Behind this eminence, but detached from it, arose a higher hill, partly covered with copsewood, partly opening into glades of pasture, where the cattle strayed, finding, at this season of the year, a scanty sustenance among the spring heads and marshy places, where the fresh grass began first to arise. The Fair Maid of Perth
If you take Pennsylvania Avenue now, it bypasses the marshy village and the middling town it once served.
Three lakes are also found in this park, providing habitat for a variety of waterbirds as well as antelope species with a preference for marshy or open, grassy habitat such as sitatunga, oribi (Ourebia ourebi), waterbuck, tsessebe, and lechwe (Kobus leche). Angolan Miombo woodlands
But I play along, as we follow a bike path past a tank farm, then along the marshy shore of the bay.
The south slope is more gentle and ends in a marshy bay.
Species of arrowgrass that poison livestock are widely distributed in marshy pastures and native grass hay areas throughout the United States.
These birds take refuge in hedges and wooded areas and at dusk fly out to feed in marshy ground.
A stretch of damp marshy grassland containing rush species and occasional cuckooflowers runs along the western perimeter of the Southern Meadow.
The steppe of feather grass, and the southern taiga of marshy forests of larch and cedar, and then birch and pine, gives way to frozen or lake-sodden tundra and the ice zones of the north.
Wetland communities include, in addition to stands of soft-stem bulrush, very marshy areas with water plantain and broad-leaved arrowhead, two closely related species whose flowers have three white petals.
They dug ditches all day with old tools, trying to drain the marshy hollows in their tiny fields. WHITE LIES
(_Cyclura lophoma_), with it dorsal crest like the teeth of a saw running down all its back, might be seen lying out on the branches of the trees, or playing bo-peep from a hole in the trunk; or, in the swamps and morasses of Westmoreland, the yellow galliwasp (_Celestus occiduus_), so much dreaded and abhorred, yet without reason, might be observed sitting idly in the mouth of its burrow, or feeding on the wild fruits and marshy plants that constitute its food. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852
The seaboard of Capernaum in which Peter dwelt is said by travelers to be a peculiarly damp, marshy, aguish, feverish place.
Tauroniro -- which is also known as Bastard bulletwood, Oloroso, Couramira, or Turanira -- is found in marshy forests in the Guianas, Colombia, Venezuela, and the Brazilian Amazon, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed
It denotes some kind of sedge or reed which grows in marshy places. Easton's Bible Dictionary
Almost all the highways of Italy were erected on a foundation four feet deep; when a space of marshy ground or bog was on the track of the road, it was filled up; and when any part of it was mountainous, its precipitousness was reduced to a gentle and trifling inclination from the general line of the road. A Philosophical Dictionary
The surrounding land is low and marshy.
The low-lying, marshy land has been improved by drainage over the past generation.
It is true that he hints at marshes near Cotrone, and, indeed, large tracts of south Italy are described as marshy by the ancients; they may well have harboured the anopheles mosquito from time immemorial, but it does not follow that they were malarious. Old Calabria
MYERS: What about the levees put down into this -- what we call a marshy area -- that are not deep enough, that are not supported enough and the water scours underneath? CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008
They were marching steadily across the marshy northlands, their pace slowed by the necessity of watching their feet for sinkholes and mud puddles.
The betel vine grows well in marshy lands, with good rainfall but can be coaxed into growing in drier climes with profuse watering.
Several small burns rushing towards the river are easily crossed, and the vegetation is symbolic of marshy land, with bog myrtle plentiful.
Hamamelidioides, Castanea aromatica, Pinus cedroides and pendula, Bambusa microphylla, and B. of Sanah which may be a variety depending on its marshy sites, Rhododendron minus, Salix, Mespilus microphyllus, Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Hilly, wooded, and marshy regions, marginal from a settler point of view, were capable of functioning as core areas of native lordship.
The land is nearly on a level with the water, the ground is marshy, and the sewers all open.
If they spread out across a marshy field and cover it, as sometimes happens, they look like giant heather. Times, Sunday Times
The orchids occurred in wet marshy swales and in open margins of wet shrubby thickets and ponds.
A pretty one that is quite common on marshy river edges is gypsywort. Times, Sunday Times
South Carolina, like the other States of America, has a well-known distinctive name, that of the "Palmetto State," a designation arising from the prolific growth of this species of fan palm in its marshy districts. Sketches in Charleston, South Carolina
Driving along a road as smooth as a ball-room floor, shaded by large trees, made picturesque by native houses built on pins in marshy land on either side, which tended to dampen our surprise at the great number of graveyards and the generous way in which they were filled, we drove to the town. Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
They dug ditches all day with old tools, trying to drain the marshy hollows in their tiny fields. WHITE LIES
Built on the edge of a marshy plain, bounded on the north by the high hills of Zygos and protected on the south by shallow lagoons at the mouth of the Gulf of Lepanto, and chiefly tenanted by hardy fishermen, this town had been the first in Western Greece to take part in the Revolution. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I
That this road was atop a ridge equally suggests its origin at a time when lower ground, to the east, was marshy and impassable.
The area is important because it has a wide variety of grassland types, from wet and marshy to dry, and a diverse range of flowers and rushes.
North of the town the 18th Panzer Division, using tanks which had been specially waterproofed for "Sea Lion" (the projected invasion of England), forded the river and struck across the marshy ground to the main Russian defences on the left bank of the Lesna, reaching them three hours later and there also capturing the bridge intact. Barbarossa
Also, the marshy ground near rivers, where most towns are sited, is ill-suited for tunnel construction.
Moose may be somewhat restricted int heir move south because many of the marshy habitats they like are found in greater abundance in glaciated (young) terrain than in "driftless" or unglaciated (older, more eroded) terrain. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
She said 1,000 years ago it was a piece of marshy ground forming part of the disputed kingdom of Glamorgan ruled over by descendants of her ancestor Rhodri the Great.
It is singular that at a moment when the soil is generally frost-bound, any plant should find out that spring is at hand; but toward the close of February, or beginning of March, the skunk-cabbage makes a good guess at the time of the year, and comes up in marshy spots, on the banks of ponds and streams. Rural Hours
They were marching steadily across the marshy northlands, their pace slowed by the necessity of watching their feet for sinkholes and mud puddles.
Greater White-fronted Geese nest on marshy ponds in the tundra or taiga.
The remainder consists of fertile coastal and riverine lowlands, including a narrow sandy and marshy coastal plain.
a marshy coastline
The piedmont savanna is patchy, varying according to its degree of laterization and pan-development; in places it is marshy overlying rock pavement. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
Next, there's a marshy wetland crossed neatly by an X of mathematical-looking boardwalks.
The river is more a stream, eventually splitting into marshy islets and after such a rainless spring was bone dry for a mile of so.
As a result, an area north-west of the town, known as Brickfields because its marshy ground was ideal for making bricks, was identified as a suitable site to relocate the market.
Like the Médoc in Bordeaux, the low-lying parts of the Maremma were swampy or marshy for much of their history with chronic problems of malaria.
In the summer, they breed on marshy, lowland tundra at the northern limits of the boreal forest.
The vehicles were chosen for their ability to cope in difficult marshy terrain.
The piedmont savanna is patchy, varying according to its degree of laterization and pan-development; in places it is marshy overlying rock pavement. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
Three lakes are also found in this park, providing habitat for a variety of waterbirds as well as antelope species with a preference for marshy or open, grassy habitat such as sitatunga, oribi (Ourebia ourebi), waterbuck, tsessebe, and lechwe (Kobus leche). Angolan Miombo woodlands
These stems grow erect when submersed, but grow prostrate on marshy terrain.
The surrounding land is low and marshy.
Hip boots or even breathable waders work better in marshy areas. How to Hunt Snipe With a Shotgun
They nest in the low Arctic, on tundra ponds with marshy shores and bogs.
Just before a cottage, go right at a green marker-post and follow a path across marshy ground to a gate in the fence to your right.
If they spread out across a marshy field and cover it, as sometimes happens, they look like giant heather. Times, Sunday Times
In his three paintings of herdsmen and cattle at Dulwich, a moist swirl of twilight, suspended over the low horizon, permeates the mild marshy pastures and caresses the slack flanks of the grazing animals.
This plant propagates as speedily in deep water as in a marshy habitat, the thin rhizomes taking root quickly.
It was a large, indoor school that sat upon a sandy island surrounded by marshy swampland.
It and the flag, or bulrush, grow only in marshy places (such as are along the Nile). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And I love finding new ones, like the one I discovered last week via Wordsmith: quaggy (KWAG-ee) adjective Marshy; flabby; spongy. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Music of Language
We kept on finding traces of the party in marshy spots, and once Tish hopped off her horse and picked up a small handkerchief with a colored border and held it up to us. Tish
It is situated in a low marshy 'swale' to the right of the Sweetwater river, and about forty miles from the South Pass. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
Some of these axes were even deposited in a marshy basin immediately north of the henge complex.
A patchwork of hedgerowed fields grazed by Friesian cows swept down from the house to a marshy buttercup-dappled plateau below, where the river ran beside the railway track.
It was only in 1879 that Klebs and myself, after having been thoroughly freed, by a long series of preparatory studies, from the unfortunate paludal idea, undertook together some investigations in malarious districts of the most varied character, marshy and not marshy. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
Heathercrest Park boasts a mature, mostly oak forest connected to the Mimico Creek watershed, and a small "swale" - a low marshy strip - that feeds into Mimico Creek - both of intrinsic interest to TRCA. INSIDETORONTO - Home
The coastal plain is low and broad, with areas of sand between the marshy river valleys.
The reaches of the river were spangled with white ranunculus, the marshy places were starred with lady's-smock and lit with marsh-mallow wherever the regiments of the sedges lowered their swords, and the northward-moving hippopotami, shiny black monsters, sporting clumsily, came floundering and blundering through it all, rejoicing dimly and possessed with one clear idea, to splash the river muddy. Tales of Space and Time
Interspersed are areas dominated by mulefat, and low marshy areas dominated by bulrush (Scirpus sp.) and cattails (Typha sp.).
The reaches of the river were spangled with white ranunculus, the marshy places were starred with lady's-smock and lit with marsh-mallow wherever the regiments of the sedges lowered their swords, and the northward-moving hippopotami, shiny black monsters, sporting clumsily, came floundering and blundering through it all, rejoicing dimly and possessed with one clear idea, to splash the river muddy. Tales of Space and Time
Further, large tracts of its marshy breeding grounds were rendered unsuitable as they were drained and cleared for cultivation.
I breakfasted, put on my waders, grabbed a couple of rods and commenced to walk the marshy mile or two to the Khuder.
It was a large, indoor school that sat upon a sandy island surrounded by marshy swampland.
The Austrians were formed up in a strong position 4 miles wide, in an area of rolling country, with the village of Leuthen at their centre, and their flanks protected by marshy ground.
A full moon and strong southeasterly winds have also prompted a coastal flood watch along the low-lying communities perched on the fingertips of marshy bayous. Approach of storm delays effort to boost oil extraction from damaged BP well
She taps on the manual typewriter, lives in the country house and walks the marshy fields.
Department could not start sprinkling of larvicide on water reservoirs and marshy areas in Rawalpindi ... WN.com - Articles related to Sugar shares sweeten on drought
The whole land is alluvial, that is, formed, gradually, through thousands of years, of the rich mud deposited by the two rivers, as they spread into vast marshy flats towards the end of their course. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
Vast sweeps of marshy valley stretch out before us; the massive mountains to the north change colors by the minute in the cloud-filtered light of an endless day.
Some of the many workers who were able to continue Laveran's work on the spot, in marshy areas, were destined to reach the goal before Laveran by the indirect approach which he had indicated. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech
As a result, an area north-west of the town, known as Brickfields because its marshy ground was ideal for making bricks, was identified as a suitable site to relocate the market.
Breeding habitat is mostly inland around low-lying marshy areas near lakes.
One which was marshy was white for weeks together with the lady's-smock or cuckoo-flower. Round About a Great Estate
A large area of somewhat marshy ground west of the Gipping belonged to the burgesses in common; the northern part in particular, being drier, was used for pasturage.
On the maps, it's a skull or a corroded face in profile, facing southwest: a small marshy lake for the eye-socket, nose-and-mouth cavity cutting in at the entrance to the Peene, just below the power station ... the draftsmanship is a little like a Wilhelm Busch cartoon face, some old fool for mischievous boys to play tricks on. Gravity's Rainbow

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