How To Use Muddy In A Sentence

The couple have blocked access to the track, forcing horse owners to make a long and muddy detour across fields. Times, Sunday Times
He never complained, except when he occasionally slipped on muddy cobblestones.
The Deftones were good but suffered a muddy sound mix.
Though successful, the area was reduced to a muddy bog.
The runaway bus eventually came to a standstill when it rolled into a muddy field.

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On the other hand, when armed with a large umbrella or a well-fitting raincoat and perhaps a pair of gumboots, it is possible to enjoy the monsoon rains, and take time out to splash through muddy puddles and wade through waterlogged roads.
He had came back, light-hearted and happy, but muddy and grass stained.
The true features of a man is shown in adversity;the strength of a horse is tested on a muddy road.
I took a tentative sip of my wine: a muddy Pinot Grigio from the reed-riddled fields of some reclaimed Italian marsh. THE CALLIGRAPHER
We left the main road and joined a muddy track that led up towards the villages. The Crossing-Place
The unruly bunch pushed into the White House, clods standing on the silk-upholstered furniture in muddy boots to get a glimpse of the new president (who was trying not to be crushed by his well-wishers). Inauguration Party Like It's 1829
The reeds and trumpets sounded a little muddy and unfocused on the opener, Bake. Times, Sunday Times
The muddy tide flat smelled to high heaven.
Kisangani - The rising sun is already burning a brilliant path across the muddy vastness of the mighty Congo river as the group of busy women bustle around the night's catch.
Muddy and broad, it picks its way across the plains, changing course at will, leaving a maze of dead ends, ox-bow lakes, swamps and lagoons.
But that journey was almost over now, and he felt his spirits rise with every step as he churned back into motion through the muddy, slushy snow.
I ran my fingers along the carved wood, admiring the way the workman had managed to fit motifs from Inuit art into the design without muddying the clarity of the sign. How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
We headed off down Pierce's Passage and over a muddy boulder slope until we reached some cascades.
I began composing an introduction praising the spiritual enlightenment exhibited in choosing to congregate in taverns, like 1849 San Jose legislators stepping in from muddy streets to drink whisky on barrelheads, before plotting out the future of nascent California.
a thousand pages of muddy and disorganized prose
muddy the water
Too much Worcestershire or hot sauce will make the drink muddy and too spicy.
Liberty knelt down in the mud, not caring if her jeans got all muddy.
Cold seep communities thrive on cooler, mineralized water leaking from the muddy sea floor.
Further muddying the picture, the spread of radiation has been fiendishly unpredictable, skipping some areas and showing up in concentrated hot spots elsewhere. Murky Science Clouded Japan Nuclear Response
A century ago, this was a muddy thoroughfare for burros and carts carrying firewood down from the mountains.
Tarja supposed he had sunk into the muddy river, weighted down by his ornate armour. MEDALON
The arena was scarred by deep muddy ruts.
With that, I flew off and landed in a muddy heap in the swampy infield, while the bike sagged directly to the ground.
Those ten minutes translated into distance as half a mile of wading through six inch deep troughs of muddy water, half a mile of sliding and tripping over loose rocks and embedded stones.
About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout. Of The Epidemics
If Barak can contain the potential for these stresses and strains to muddy his agenda, that will be a considerable achievement.
It is muddy, too, and overrich in dissolved fibrous and bitter matters. The Suffrage Cook Book
The well-behaved children sat on the floor, which when it rained, became muddy.
The author found that 100 grammes of a Bucholze's solution for the propagation of bacteria, charged with 0.20 g. of chinoline hydrochlorate, had remained perfectly clear and free from bacteria after standing forty-six days exposed to the air, while a similar solution, placed under the same conditions, without chinoline, had turned muddy and contained bacteria after only twelve days 'standing. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
When writing, she is totally absorbed in the book and on one never-to-be-forgotten occasion, her sons returned from school ravenous to find she had shoved a pair of muddy shoes in the oven for their tea! Diana Wynne Jones biography
It tackled steep inclines, rocky surfaces, muddy tracks and sand dunes with aplomb and at no time did I feel it would bog down or fail to scale rocky obstacles.
Jose and Mike drove the transplanter under difficult, muddy conditions - a job Richard has never turned over to others before.
The toxic nonsense about ‘public plays’ and ‘grand themes’ arises largely from this muddy water.
In aligning ourselves with these universal laws, we can soon see how clear or muddy is our own subconscious.
The soldiers billowed across the muddy riverbed
I tried a few Trapeze, Fair Verona, Pearl Dragon and found them to be dense, medicinal and even muddy – in short, quite unaccessible. Strange Invisible Perfumes
But it wasn't cold enough to settle. After a whole day there was just a thin layer of muddy slush.
We left the main road and joined a muddy track that led up towards the villages. The Crossing-Place
Rally cars look spectacular being thrown sideways on muddy forest tracks. The Sun
It left a mark, they could see it now, gleaming on the sand as muddy swell crawled away.
Beware of the razor-edged oyster-shells or the stinging fish (theli meen) in the muddy marginal waters.
Make sure that you wear wellies and old clothes - you WILL get muddy! The Sun
We are on the edge of the muddy, fulvous Lion River, hot as tea, and are running through drinking water almost as fast as we can filter it. Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part II
The took a compass bearing for the direction of the croaking and eventually reached stagnant, muddy pools, thick with a scum of dead insects.
The river goes from one extreme to the other and, what with all the metaphor, sometimes gets pretty muddy.
Inside the mine the ground is muddy and damp. Times, Sunday Times
The film has its visually muddy scenes, but it still exudes a stylish elegance from the exquisite bleached-out imagery of the opening credit sequence to the loungey soundtrack.
Together, they soared over the fence, and landed with a muddy squelch onto the ground.
Even a broken-down dirt digger, bright yellow like a daffodil, was fun to watch as the muddy construction workers tried to get it back into working order.
A muddy paw on the face is certainly a great way to greet the day. Times, Sunday Times
By 1,000 BC the first permanent settlements were established, strung along the shore like a long string of muddy pearls that were placed at a days rowing distance apart.
Muddy trainer prints stained the polished floorboards, marring their flawless exterior like blood seeping over a white surface.
The rain had made the football pitch extremely muddy.
At last we were on the road, driving cross country on muddy tracks. Times, Sunday Times
His elusive palette of muddy plums, acidic yellows and sunrise oranges appears to have been influenced by his countryman Per Kirkeby, with whom he shares a wintry, dulled light.
One can only conjecture about the discomfort and indignity that Sharp, an asthmatic vegan, suffered in his quest, tramping up muddy tracks in the Appalachian mountains, where one community tried to convince him chicken was a vegetable. Cecil Sharp and the Morris Men
He felt his stomach heave and nearly fell to his knees, his eyes going dark, muddy gray.
There is fear and loathing on this muddy campaign trail. Times, Sunday Times
He got down on his hands and knees and tried to rub out the muddy footprints.
His eyes scanned the muddy riverbank until he found what he was looking for: a large stick tangled in a clump of weeds.
So when the rain came down and the tracks got all muddy and slithery, it was a good time to put the X Trail through its paces.
Don't bring those muddy boots inside!
They did pay me for the washing powder, but it was a messy job in the winter when the fields were muddy!
There was a taxi waiting where the aircraft came to a halt so that they could avoid the muddy dirt of the airfield.
As we ascended the rusted metal ladder up into a series of passageways called The Warren we began to look like real cavers - wet, muddy and generally covered in cack.
His muddy boots splotched the carpet.
For Sally it all came down to that one simple fact, unsullied by whatever muddy waters my rhetoric stirred up. BETTER THAN THIS
Recognizant obstacle sleeps with be addicted to, hazy, muddy, delirium, unbalanced condition is more.
We had to pick our way along the muddy track.
The only access to that ancient castle is along a muddy track.
In the mirror she was wearing a muddy bicorne hat. The French Revolution
Softened by the sleet in the ice-cold wind the sand grew muddy and pliant beneath the questing fingers of water. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
It is not just that jumping in muddy puddles is good for the soul. Times, Sunday Times
Pass bird hide on right, through car park and take wide muddy track on far side. Times, Sunday Times
The Court majority offers the muddy suggestion that racial gerrymandering will pass muster if the resulting districts are not too aggressively indifferent to "compactness, contiguousness, geographical boundaries, or political subdivisions. Districting By Pigmentation
She joked about some muddy footprints left by her husband on the driveway.
In a personal email correspondence, Dr. Walter Ewing, Senior Researcher at the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) further criticizes CIS for muddying the national health care debate with their anti-immigrant agenda. Wonk Room
The unwary movement caused her foot to slip on the footpath made muddy by the overnight rain.
The entire area under the tree was soaked and the dog was muddy from the whiskers on his cheeks to the bottom of his short tail.
The engine chugged away as the Buick came to a standstill in the muddy drive.
All her aft compartments flooded, swiftly sending the boat to the muddy floor of the loch, 55 ft down.
Muddy lanes surround dismal tin shacks and there is an aura of despondency and despair, which even the myriads of children do little to dispel.
Behind him a rip flows out to sea from the shoreline, a swath of muddy rippled water filled with black sand churned up by its powerful seaward pull.
He supposed that was natural when you saw a muddy, tuxedoed white guy who smelled like a cesspool. Gideon’s war
A downhill frozen start continued to a long uphill drag through a muddy wooded section before turning into the wind, past the start for a second lap.
As anybody who has seen converted 3D movies knows, they can look dull and muddy. Times, Sunday Times
The only access to that ancient castle is along a muddy track.
In the end, when the ‘crisis’ has been resolved in the usual muddy compromise, people are embarrassed to look back and see how overwrought they had become.
Fawn and slate, with an occasional tinge of a dark, muddy purple-brown give almost the only respite from black, white and grey.
Impulsively she set off at a run down the muddy path.
The room is a very handsome one, but it is on the top of a windy and muddy hill, leading (literally) to nowhere; and it looks (except that it is new and _mortary_) as if the subsidence of the waters after the The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870
These white hulks, so Coyote told them, came shuddering down the arroyo when spring floods sent a muddy fury rioting between the banks. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
It was a rainy day in London; the muddy streets were covered with sheets of icy water when Emma and her companions arrived.
She knelt down before her as soon as she saw her seat herself to take off her muddy boots. Emily Fox-Seton
They strip him naked throw him on the muddy track and tell him to run laps.
Blake remembers the Artichoke Inn, on the muddy lane through Lambeth Marsh, and the village maids and the lusty lads outside it, dancing in a ring.
The IRS 700XX works great in rocky situations, and its ground clearance allows it to work exceptionally well in muddy, rutted terrain or in areas where fallen trees cover the trail. Quad 2009 ATV Buyers Guide
My friends and I were playing kickball at recess, and it was really muddy outside.
He was attacked with dysentery from the drinking of muddy water.
We carried on and fell into many puddles knee deep, filling our wellies with muddy brown water and cow manure, not a great combination.
She was rather fat, and her complexion was muddy and spotty.
Approach slogs vary from muddy hikes to tailgate-to-tailgate perfection, and the vagaries of road closures change access yearly.
Master muddy downhills, hairpin turns and unexpected obstacles with the help of cyclocross pro Gina Hall.
The Farsi sounded a bit muddy to me at times, but that may be a reflection of local dialects.
Further muddying the outlook, Fed officials have offered conflicting signals on their policy predilections in recent weeks, with some pushing for a very aggressive stimulus and others highly skeptical of any additional accommodation. The Fed Quantitative Easing: What You Can Expect
To follow the story further we had to walk along a muddy path up the river valley. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
However, yesterday, the muddy white sheets were also on their way to the dump after being used as a stopgap measure to hold back the floods.
When I wrote something, all the pages would stick together, and could not be pried apart without shredded them, and the words bled into a muddy mess of ink.
The runaway bus eventually came to a standstill when it rolled into a muddy field.
He settled on the swampy alluvial deposit of a muddy river with his minder.
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
The thirty-staired Seats, all round our Amphitheatre, get instantaneously slated with mere umbrellas, fallacious when so thick set: our antique Cassolettes become Water-pots; their incense-smoke gone hissing, in a whiff of muddy vapour. The French Revolution
I was driving along a muddy path.
The downsides include no electricity or water and the front door is a concrete hatch in the corner of a muddy field.
And as snow melts it soaks into the bales or makes the ground muddy.
Had the muddy weed really hit its mark?
I ran my finger over the star, absently taking in the circular shape of the town, its narrow streets a remnant of an older time, with cobblestones and horse-drawn carriages, candled lanterns and muddy gutters. Brush of Darkness
Romping by a half-iced pond, they break through the brittle ice and come home muddy, wet-mittened, and whining.
However, we are using the term schizophrenia colloquially so as to not muddy our political-philosophical analysis with clinical analysis, a topic on which neither authors are literate. Anarchist news dot org - Comments
Our horses plodded down the muddy track.
I was apparently indoors, though the floor was dingy and muddy and covered in gritty sand.
On the appointed day the Queen inspected a muddy, smelly morass.
It paddles along the surface for thirty seconds, then dives to trawl the muddy bottom for worms and aquatic insects.
Yet on the day the muddy conditions favoured the away team. Times, Sunday Times
When he finally comes up sputtering from the muddy waters of the Big Black River, there is an instant when Keith Lane looks like some ancient water god who has been catapulted into the 21st century. The Catfish Men
He drowns in the muddy water in the road in front of their house.
The ground was still very muddy.
We snake on north, eventually forking off the perfect track for a short section that might muddy your boots after rain.
The air was ripe with the rich, muddy dankness of the river as they walked along the levee. Captured by Moonlight
Softened by the sleet in the ice-cold wind the sand grew muddy and pliant beneath the questing fingers of water. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
The mud then spews under the Gapstow Bridge to become a muddy slough that inundates a good part of The Pond, leaving the rest of The Pond aswirl with oil slicks, sludge, and Dixie cups.
As schooltime approached, she dipped a rag in the muddy water of the taro patch and cleaned her sons, sending them off to their lessons. Hawaii
The pool itself, muddy and discolored from the sluice boxes, effectually hid what it contained, and it contained John Thornton; for Buck followed his trace into the water, from which no trace led away. Chapter 7
Community leaders say the playground is a muddy, smelly quagmire even in the height of summer.
So it is a translation of a translation of a translation; and it all becomes a bit muddy and confused. Times, Sunday Times
She kicked, propelling herself forward and down until her fingers brushed the muddy bottom.
there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain
His usual high leather boots and baggy pleated trews had got soaked and muddy yesterday, he explained, and now they were drying off by the stove at home.
An area of soggy, muddy turf around three metres from the stumps at one end caused the game to be called off. The Sun
A muddy bottom is greatly appreciated by all Bacopa species.
Despite her fine plush mezzo, she's unalluring in this role, with muddy diction and risible franglais. Times, Sunday Times
But their demands helped to muddy the waters and were given wide credence among their supporters in the United States.
The sections where muddy trails would have cut through boggy ground are now protected by wooden walkways.
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Eventually, the next bend reveals a stand of huts, tottering on stilts sunk in the muddy wastes of the lapping river.
Only the iron gallery, on a level with the entrance from the road, was left unsubmerged; the central depth had been converted into a huge tank of muddy water, while the sightseer looked vainly for the engines and carriages that lay drowned beneath. The Paris Flood of 1910 | Edwardian Promenade
After the prayers, Hamad Qadduri stood in his auto parts store, a dusty hovel off a muddy street.
Rain seriously affected matters in the tea interval, and we had to bowl on a wet pitch, which soon became very muddy and slippery underfoot, making bowling extremely difficult.
He gibbered madly and his muscles spasmed, and he sunk to his knees in the muddy trench, his heart pumping his blood out into the soil.
The dust on the rutty overgrown road turned to muddy deep puddles as the rain set in and, on evenings when the skies cleared a little, killdeer and nighthawks could be heard once more.
Mango, papaya and genips grow wild in the forest, which is not technically a rain forest but looks the part with dripping trees and muddy trails to hike along.
The swamp itself was muddy, turbid, and infested with biting gnats and mosquitoes.
The only signs of the burrowing molluscs are their water intake and outlet openings, just visible at the surface of a muddy seabed.
The tops of the downs in Southern England still show the scars where primitive men fought their wars or grew their scanty crops; and in the lowland plains an unusual abundance of trees will show you where once a dense forest grew, or you may infer an impassable bog from a muddy field alongside some meandering brook. English Landscape and Personality
If Barak can contain the potential for these stresses and strains to muddy his agenda, that will be a considerable achievement.
The muddy tide flat smelled to high heaven.
There it was, immense and gray and hulking, a 200-foot wall of boulders and gravel and muddy ooze.
It's a good idea to mulch each plant with an inch or so of aquarium gravel to keep soil from muddying the water.
Charnia evidently had a procumbent mode of life on a soft muddy substrate.
It is not just that jumping in muddy puddles is good for the soul. Times, Sunday Times
When I first meet him, he's in muddy jeans and a half-open shirt.
I don't want to speak for others but I have noticed that there is a prevailing belief in the Upper Midwest that bass are not good eating and that they taste "muddy or mucky". Classic F&S Vintage Fishing Ads
The Defenders rode at a trot, two abreast, following the muddy tracks cut into the ancient watercourse. MEDALON
Having strangers to stay also means keeping the communal areas of her house immaculate - so no muddy football boots or paw prints are allowed in the hall, she adds.
At last we were on the road, driving cross country on muddy tracks. Times, Sunday Times
Sound quality is quite bad, with a mono track that has substantial hissing and popping, and a very muddy sound.
A keen German radio ham, named only as Michael B, overheard a policeman calling for help after his car got stuck in a muddy field near Frankfurt.
Kelvin slid down the muddy slope, a landslide of earth, rock and ferns pushing him to the foot of the rise.
Where would he put his muddy boots? Times, Sunday Times
Look at the plebs! Getting all muddy! Haw haw haw!
The six-cylinder engine car has a four-speed gearbox and tall tires, allowing it to creep relatively silently over grassy and muddy terrain. The Tiger Car
He often complained about muddy pedaling that obscured the musical line.
The moment we stepped over the threshold, on the right hand of the passage we found ourselves ushered into what in other countries would be called the antechamber; the ground floor, however, was muddy and filthy, a large fire was burning, John James Audubon
So after a shuffle I drop to the muddy ground to show him my mettle. Times, Sunday Times
Here they provide pull-on boot covers, so you don't muddy the floor or have to unlace; a very good idea.
Enclosed in plastic casing of muddy beige, it was slightly bigger than a shoebox on end, about fourteen inches high.
The cave descends almost vertically through a maze of boulders from a collapsed roof and is extremely wet and muddy.
I heard the splash, and the muddy water splashed up onto the sides.
We all want to keep muddy footmarks out of the house - so why is it so hard to ask visitors to take off their shoes?
Now there are many popular nature reserves that have muddy islands out in front of a hide. Times, Sunday Times
The small fat arms that once clamped round my neck, the sturdy legs with muddy knees, are replaced with long gangling limbs that sprawl untidily, in sharp angles, across my sofa.
Her face had turned the muddy red of my water jar.
The most dangerous adulteration of wine is by some preparations of lead, which possess the property of stopping the progress of acescence of wine, and also of rendering white wines, when muddy, transparent. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employ
Upon arriving and getting changed we promptly headed off up the track to the stile and the very muddy ground beyond.
Also featured here are species which live at great depth, on sandy or muddy seabeds: rays, sole, crayfish and snipefish.
The water is too muddy for filming, and, worse, crocodiles lurk in the mangroves of Missionary Bay and the nearby Cardwell River.
The problem was, in addition to being wet and muddy from the recent rain and storms, almost nothing (with anything good for a toddler to do) is open before noon on Sundays. Noelridge Park Greenhouse Hours « Become A Robot
‘And are you not wet also,’ said Mr Crawley, looking at the old man, who had been at work in the brickfield, and who was soaked with mire, and from whom there seemed to come a steam of muddy mist. The Last Chronicle of Barset
Then, he put on this little display in a babyish voice to impress me with how much he loved this little kiddy widdy, and he made me promise that I would name her Muddy. The Skinny Kitten Story (In Which I Am Both A Liar And A Kitten Thief)
Look, you've made the floor all muddy!
In pounding rain, a cortège of international savants bore his body up a muddy road for burial below Montmartre.
Sometimes I like to pan two mics one hardish left, and one hardish right for a nice stereo spread of the guitar, but this is not such a good idea if you have other guitars or instruments in the same sonic range in the mix, as it can tend to muddy things up too much, and make for less clarity.
Softened by the sleet in the ice-cold wind the sand grew muddy and pliant beneath the questing fingers of water. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE

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