How To Use Murky In A Sentence

Following the sound, Silk found himself among the sellers he sought Hobbled deer reared and plunged, their soft brown eyes wild with fright; a huge snake lifted its flat, malevolent head, hissing like a kettle on the stove; live salmon gasped and splashed in murky, glass-fronted tanks; pigs grunted, lambs baaed, chickens squawked, and milling goats eyed passersby with curiosity and sharp suspicion. Nightside The Long Sun
Colours were good, if none too subtle, but poor contrast made for murky dark scenes with objects lacking depth. Times, Sunday Times
The two are plunged into a murky world of murder, politics and conspiracies. Times, Sunday Times
In a few months Gome has gone from an example of extraordinary success, as it served China's pent-up consumer demand, to an example of the murky and fragile state of Chinese business.
We don't see any flashbacks to the gory details, but the script makes it plain that this is a man with a murky past, who has indeed used his position to exploit his female students.

The ‘Tipton three’ may be telling a pack of lies, but this affair is so murky and so many backs are being covered that it is very difficult to form any kind of coherent judgement.
A slow descent into a long and murky winter; on my doorstep, the colourful leaves on the trees withered and fell, and there was no spring.
That said, darker scenes looked murky. Times, Sunday Times
And ever the river was growing rougher and ruder; ever its backbone was beginning to puiver and flounder like a whale underfoot, with its liquescent body of cold, grey, murky water bursting with increasing frequency from its shell of ice, and lapping hungrily at our feet. Through Russia
His murky past has also been a prominent feature of the campaign. Times, Sunday Times
After that it gets a little murky. Times, Sunday Times
Spokesmen often justify the government's murky behaviour by reference to the awfulness of the Tigers.
It did eventually sink into a murky mire of sickening sentimentality that left me feeling nauseous, but hey, that's just me.
The trouble is that the murky area of tipping adheres to no rules or etiquette.
Just south of the provincial capital, the murky waters of the Golok River mark the border between Malaysia and Thailand.
The lotus is significant to Theravada buddhism because the plant blooms out from the murky waters of a lake, representing enlightenment from ignorance. Short Fiction: Snowflake Angel
Clinton trod on to murky terrain.
It's well-played but slow, and the trio's murky affairs are hard to become too involved in. The Sun
The sinister, murky world of espionage is laid bare in this revised and updated edition of Philip Knightley's powerful book about spies and spying in the 20th century.
But this is where things get morally murky. Times, Sunday Times
It all still seems a bit murky. Times, Sunday Times
I do lead a rather murky life, and my shinbone does get lots of practice. Friday...
With a strong shove, they were pushed away from the dock and out into the murky waters.
The lighted sea-lamps swung and leaped in their gimbals, ever battling with the dancing shadows in the murky gray. CHAPTER XXXIII
The murky circumstances of his death have become a rallying cry for those at the extreme end of the movement. Times, Sunday Times
There is a reasonably respectable visible elite and a murky and far from respectable hidden group within the leadership core. The Government and Politics of France
Aspects of his style are indebted to Manet and Sickert, the former in the alla prima succulence of paint application, the latter in muted, at times almost murky, close tonality in the depiction of crowds.
But more folks than you'd think toss hooks in that brown soup because there are some lunkers in the murky depths.
The film's attitude to these questions is murky at best.
The link between aesthetics and politics which forms the novel's principal thesis is only an abstract one - in practice, the link did not exist, and most of the writers, artists, filmmakers and composers who began by espousing the cause of a New Jerusalem built from Marxist revolutionism ultimately found themselves cast adrift in a murky sea of violence, war, totalitarianism and genocide. A private story
They return to their former ways, though perhaps in newly clandestine associations such as the murky and much feared paramilitary demobilisation, Medellín - and Colombia - are now presented with a worrying remobilisation. blows: desertions, the cross-border killing of commander Raúl Reyes at his camp in Ecuador and the death of co-founder Manuel Marulanda, and the humiliating rescue of its most high-profile prisoner Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
We wandered up small streets and down broad avenues and peered along murky alleyways.
His right eye is swollen, puffy and seeping something murky.
What little light that was given off was dulled to a murky yellow from the tobacco and smoke coming from the various pot and cigarette smokers in the room.
The kids were only interested in the towns and villages if they had a patisserie and a swimming pool; the canal was too murky to be jumping into.
Graham McLaren has edited the play into a 105-minute chamber drama, played out on a murky stage chequered with shafts of pale light.
murky waters
ON A rain-lashed November day two years ago, a pleasure barge sailing up the River Hull clipped a large object, hidden beneath the murky waters.
To determine how the law navigates the murky issues involved in treating a mentally ill adult who does not want to be treated, NEWSWEEK's Katie Paul spoke with Lodise about the legal wrangling involved and the obstacles faced by both conservator and conservatee. Controlling Britney
So a bright and cute opening leads to something still playful, yet more murky and cruel. Times, Sunday Times
It all still seems a bit murky. Times, Sunday Times
Contrast levels are sharp, shadows are not murky, but blacks do occasionally suffer into a very dark gray.
Over the centuries, Nostradamus has been credited with prophesying murky futures down to the last detail.
In the murky world of international espionage, rumours abound about the credibility of his information.
His murky past has also been a prominent feature of the campaign. Times, Sunday Times
Just to pluck at blind random one of the many very thorny Operation Relex circumstances from the bastardly murky and unexamined recent historical fray.
What made you drag up that particular episode in my murky past?
Why is the assessment of editorial excellence as murky as critical judgment of poetry, chamber music or architecture?
Such are the murky origins of modern Russian capitalism. Times, Sunday Times
That both have too many connections with those with a murky past. The Sun
At the pier, he described a stringy plant floating in the murky water as a weedy species that had escaped from aquariums.
Other tracks distinctly lack progression; a drum loop plods along with murky synth bass lines only to cut off suddenly, or meander without significant development or resolution.
I was on holiday with my girlfriend and the sea was a bit murky. The Sun
By this time the sky had turned a murky grey and the sea was being whipped up by the wind… and then we were met by the pier master with the bad news that the ferry was cancelled.
Over the rolling, variegated hills, where virulent yellow rape seed mingles with brown arable land and verdant fruit farms, a grey, murky pallor is cast.
As we flew into the airport, we could see a murky yellow smog hovering over the city.
I selected a small gold bead mayfly nymph tied on a size 12 hook, as it was white and clearly visible in the murky water.
It seems to be the end of a long-standing nightmare for Aban Offshore Ltd as it finally exited its equity interest in joint venture -- Venture Drilling AS -- which has been in murky waters since mid-2008, when the only ship used for drilling called Deep Venture that it chartered from a Russian enterprise ran into litigation. Aban Emerging From the Depths
People still exhibit articles for sale on the quayside for visiting cruise ships, but boys no longer dive into the murky waters.
Ropes stretched from one house to the next, from where hung newly washed laundry, some still dripping with rather murky water.
How persistently this question of the interests in politics, and the clash of interests, keeps raising its head from the murky deep. Times, Sunday Times
But his frantic search only pulls himself further into the murky French underworld. The Sun
This kind of relationship between music and visuals or environment becomes, musically at least, increasingly murky on this micro level as a sheer ‘spike’ in volume is no guarantee that a listener would make the corresponding connection to what they are hearing. Archive 2008-12-01
I dive-bombed into the murky entrance while slowing down smoothly.
Foran's avoids this by not dressing up in any fashion, replacing the inflatable leppy with murky class. Joegood Diary Entry
People still exhibit articles for sale on the quayside for visiting cruise ships, but boys no longer dive into the murky waters.
But the moral maze is not quite as murky as it should be. Times, Sunday Times
The water at this time of year is cold and murky - we don wetsuits with hoods and booties - and there are long hours of detailed study work to complete.
The river was brown and murky after the storm.
The laws on intellectual property are murky.
To add to the occasion there was a jazz quartet, playing lively music and cheering people up on an otherwise murky day.
Jutting from the murky orange sunset behind them, the cathedral's three steeples, flanked by the cupola of the old colonial garrison and the little dome of the city hall, tower over the masts and the smokestacks of ships at anchor.
They had all brought their cameras with them and the flashlights lit up the murky Manchester sky almost as though it was the paparazzi pursuing a cat-walk model down the runway.
Who's willing to put themselves on the line for these mysterious little creatures of the murky brine?
Elsinore, one moment overtoppling her slender frailness, the next moment splashing a hundred tons of water on her deck and flinging her skyward as they passed beneath and foamed and crested from sight in the murky gray to leeward. CHAPTER XXXIV
She sighed and shook her head and going to the window, leaned her head against the panes and stared out over the dark, murky city. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
In addition a murky role is being played by certain neighbouring countries and international powers.
Many of these residents have complained to me about the foul taste and murky color of their tap water.
Use our interactive label decoder to find your way in the murky world of certifications and ingredients. The Green Guide
He translates the lingo, and tees up each chapter of this murky ronde. Times, Sunday Times
Ahead the rushing of the millstream was a faint thunder in the murky semidark. Ishmael
Mexican marine biologist has discovered a new shark species in the murky depths of Mexico's Sea of Cortez , the first new shark find in the wildlife-rich inlet in 34 years.
Except for one large canvas dependent on scrabbled zones of shockingly clear violet, most of the paintings are a little murky.
Some grain and sometimes murky shadow detail are the only real flaws, but despite them the film looks very nice.
The light was too murky to continue playing.
He became involved in the murky world of international drug-dealing.
I've also put in some pondweed, and the water's murky enough that they should be able to find food in there.
The photo is a grainy collage of blacks and whites, with dots and lines scratched across the murky background.
The pallid ray of light illumed the car interior awash in a murky tide. Sonnet of the Sphinx
After that it gets a little murky. Times, Sunday Times
Atlas' father is shipman with a murky and often absent influence on the child's life. New Author Interview: Nicholas Christopher author of "The Bestiary"
The air was thick and murky, and she began to imagine horrible things coming for her.
The sun broke through like a murky searchlight, illuminating a small patch of water. COVER STORY
The specific DOJ charges appear to be supported by electronic recordings and at least one snitch, thereby providing at least some substance despite the usual murky interpretations involved in political wheeler-dealing. Andrew Kreig: U.S. Charges of Alabama Corruption Tainted By Past Federal Misconduct
His sins are still murky enough to prevent his enemies from full enjoyment of triumph.
Still awash in relief at leaving behind the murky realm of differing ideologies, Anne giggled nervously.
Without clear-eyed, informed journalism about sexuality, the public runs the risk of seeing sex-related issues through a murky scrim of ignorance and biased attitudes.
Except the occasional noodler who gets a finger bitten off, or drowns after getting his body stuck in the murky hole while trying to shove his arm down a catfish, which, frankly, seems like as good a way to decrease the surplus population as any. Animal Planet's 'Hillbilly Handfishin' ': Using the old noodle
With equal imperception it bent down and down, closer and closer to the lake waters, murky with the samba of subaqueous weeds and the abyss.
The gravestones were barely seen through a thick layer of murky fog that encompassed everything it could get its claws around.
De Luca has stated that she is influenced by her adopted home of Los Angeles and you can see this in the vivid sunset colors and in the murky and clouded denseness that fills up the plane from horizon to ocean to shore. Tracey Harnish: Mara De Luca: Leap of Faith
Further in, the tunnel narrowed and shallowed slightly, until at 30m there was a distinct murky halocline.
The status of contract personnel on the battlefield and the guaranteeing of continuing service in combat are murky and unsettled questions.
In a murky turn that's never fully explained, we learn that Canadian immigration authorities want to nab her, as she's in the country illegally.
The marsh is a mysterious and murky zone where the intricacies of the human mind and personal psychologies are made manifest in a range of characters drawn, in part, from extant folklore and myth, but primarily from the waking dream of the marsh itself. Bill Bush: When the World Was Small and Man Knew His Place in It: This Artweek.LA (May 30 - June 5)
And this is where the picture gets a little murky. Times, Sunday Times
In the murky water were hundreds of floating chests of tea.
How persistently this question of the interests in politics, and the clash of interests, keeps raising its head from the murky deep. Times, Sunday Times
The ensuing race to the deadline is a pacy affair that alternates between the hapless Tamara's frequent recourse to her thesaurus S*nday, she reckons, is just the place to scatter words such as "chthonic" and "hermeneutic" and Tait's grim determination to keep her would-be profiler at bay, particularly from her rather murky private life. The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee – review
His murky past has also been a prominent feature of the campaign. Times, Sunday Times
But, uh-oh, it hits an unexpected pocket of big crystal filled ‘empty space’, which turns out to be a humongous geode floating in the murky mantle.
The murky worlds in which he moved are also a problem. The Times Literary Supplement
Researchers have long known that fish often mature in the murky saltwater amid the tangled labyrinths of roots created by mangroves.
He drained his cup and stared for a moment into its murky bottom for inspiration.
Particularly when the party elected partly on a platform of “fiscal conservationism” apparently does no better at reigning in the debt than their opponents, the picture ismurky. The Volokh Conspiracy » Mothers Against Debt
There soon erupts a web of swashbuckling action, family rivalries and murky moralities. Times, Sunday Times
That said, darker scenes looked murky. Times, Sunday Times
Beads of murky water dripped down stone walls blackened by grime, and the floor was cold gray stone.
We have this misty, murky indistinct reason for being there.
Drawn into the murky world of naval intelligence, the captain and his multinational crew are on a mysterious mission that even DeHaan doesn't understand.
The meaning of the word "willful" is notoriously murky see, e.g., the multitudinous Supreme Court cases over the word, so the statute would be improved by using a more detailed synonym. Ars Technica
Only this time we find congressional constrictors caught up with us in the murky trap, without a Johnny Wiesmuller. Congressional Democrats muck up Congressional insurance coverage. | RedState
The origins of the knuckleball are a bit murky, as four different pitchers have been said to have invented a non-spinning pitch thrown off the knuckles or the fingertips at roughly the same time. The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers
Other house of horror staples were abundant: Murky lighting that gave you just enough visual information to imagine the worst, water that dripped from the ceiling that turned into blood, candles and flashlights that disembodied faces and ambient noise that made it feel as if someone – or a lot of someones — were whispering in your ear. London Theater Journal: Close Quarters Magnify the Unease in ‘Relocated’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
* I have no idea if Greenfield is English, but this is what worked for me batterie ordinateur portable says, Exile On Main St. is a murky, muddy, brilliant album. Guilty Pleasures
Perhaps the Government will shine a light into the murky world of public sector behaviour. The Sun
But aside from these big-ticket items, much of the ‘another world is possible’ view remains murky.
Look out for the wooden houses on stilts along the riverbank, in which many families still live, using the murky water of the Chao Praya for everything from drinking to washing.
But the murky secret of a dead girl and the politics of the pair's ultimate estrangement is difficult to work through.
He paints an otherworldly , murky scene of dread in the cemetery where lightening flashes and thunderroars.
Yet the usual signs of approach to an enormous city were awanting — dwarfed trees, market-gardens, cockney arbours, in which citizens smoke their pipes in the evening, and imagine themselves in Arcadia, rows of small houses, and a murky canopy of smoke. The Englishwoman in America
The river was brown and murky after the storm.
The sun still shone but somehow it seemed murky and dulled.
The murky circumstances of his death have become a rallying cry for those at the extreme end of the movement. Times, Sunday Times
“Then come inhale some embarrassment,” she snarled, as the live-webcam ulcers spread up my spine and impaled my cornea with murky armpit stubble and ill-spent Euros. Study-A-Broad
Green algae grow suspended in the water, turning it murky green and making it difficult to see the fish.
When these sharks feed in the murky surf zone where the jostling of waves and currents forces them to rely on quick grabs to feed, a flailing leg or arm of a bather frolicking in the surf can be mistaken for the animal's normal prey. Dr. Douglas Fields: Alarming Increase in Fatal Shark Attacks World-Wide: Science cuts through the hysteria for answers
The savage blankness of the instrumentals is tempered by vocal tracks that ascend like beacons, their brightness amplified by the murky distances between them.
As their names suggest, they make murky music, so quiet and enigmatic they risk going unnoticed in the corner.
The light was too murky to continue playing.
The frontmen for these two indie bands lead their respective cadres forward in the murky and windy forest of Canadian indie rock, an admittedly poorly defined genre, perhaps not a genre at all.
If the past was murky, the future looks even more so.
Authorities say no one saw him because the water was so murky.
At the murky back of the store, Burnell came on a pile of English cavalry twill trousers, well-provided with pockets, and ginger in colour. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Leaves decompose quickly, which can turn water murky and even make it smelly.
As apartheid ended, South Africa faced thousands of dark questions about its past, with murky answers for its future.
But this is where things get morally murky. Times, Sunday Times
He craned through the front window to try to penetrate the murky green shadows clustered under the legs of the floating steel platform. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
When the first faint chee-chee of the violin floated out into the murky atmosphere, the smaller portion of the neighborhood went straightway into ecstasies. Violets and Other Tales
Stretching along the front of the stall was a tank of murky water in which a tangle of long, dark eels writhed.
He craned through the front window to try to penetrate the murky green shadows clustered under the legs of the floating steel platform. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
There's no loony-haired maniac gurning in a murky tunnel this time around; no prowling cat's eyed gargantuan ripping out raps menacingly.
I realise now that my near Jekyll and Hyde transmutation came about insidiously, like a winter's dawn, a consequence of years of tramping the murky corridors of environmental reporting.
Caller Errin!) exteriorises on this ourherenow plane in disunited solod, likeward and gushious bodies with (science, say!) peril-whitened passionpanting pugnoplangent intuitions of reunited selfdom (murky whey, abstrew adim!) in the higherdimissional selfless Allself, theemeeng Narsty meetheeng Idoless, and telling Finnegans Wake
For one thing, the once clear water was now cloudy and a murky purple shade.
The picture is also dark, hazy, dirty, murky, and marred by shimmering and flicker.
And this is where the picture gets a little murky. Times, Sunday Times
I should have liked to have looked down from the sun into the sunlessness, as the old Fate woman at Ronco can do when she sits in winter at her window; or again, I should like to see how things would look from this same window on a leaden morning in midwinter after snow has fallen heavily and the sky is murky and much darker than the earth. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
There is something weird about it; something murky; something not quite wholesome. Times, Sunday Times
The waitress returned with a glassful of murky whisky.
All of a sudden, on a murky night, a light would hop up, right under our bows, almost, and an agonized voice, with the backwoods 'whang' to it, would wail out -- Life on the Mississippi
It's all a little bit murky. Times, Sunday Times
In my youth, this was a murky place filled with stands of tule reeds, bubbling pools of stagnant water and little streams that ran between islands of bushes and reeds.
IMO, the "murky" is bc they are desparately hoping that someone, like Spataro or like the Canadian inquiry commission or the German investigators, find something that WOULD count as "murky" to justify kidnap and torture. Balkinization
The best stuff is from the early seventies, when the murky, basic production and tight rhythm section set up a selection of exciting guitar thrashes.
The secrets of this murky underworld are revealed here, for the first time, in a transcript of a secret telephone conversation.
Their son was killed in murky circumstances amounting to cold-blooded murder. The Sun
This individual has, apparently, a singularly murky gangsterish past which was the subject of a posting on the blog of former Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray who there gave chapter and verse about the man. Don't Mess With Us, Mr. Usmanov
All the fashion mistakes were there in bulk: combats elasticised at the ankle, shapeless shifts, murky colours, the wrong prints. Archive 2007-09-01
The creature it belonged to ploughed against the current for a while, and then disappeared. It had presumably returned to its haunts in the murky, peaty depths of the lake.
A brilliant analysis by Chris Winter, to wit, any Ph.D. that feels that he is not getting sufficient accolades for his murky research has the right to engage in lawless behavior. James Hansen Arrested for Obstruction and Impeding Traffic - NASA Watch
But this painting also draws him into a murky criminal underworld. Times, Sunday Times
The 1991 Iraq campaign introduced home-viewers to the murky, underwater green shots of guided missiles homing in on windows and chimneys of buildings.
Dressed in purple robes, he cast a spell invoking the elements of earth, air, water and fire and threw a talisman into the murky loch.
Everything's crammed in together, bright cheery whites transformed into depressed murky greys. Times, Sunday Times
The detective figure in the hard-boiled story, then, operates in a frequently murky borderland between good and evil, where he can never be sure at any given time which is which.
Mahogany dividers split up cubicles, and blue and green tinted glass lit the early public conveniences’ more murky corners.
That both have too many connections with those with a murky past. The Sun
My fellow diners feast on what looks like a random assortment of seasonal vegetables congealed in a murky coconut sauce, or else the dreaded soy burger.
Without its usual brilliant lighting on the rose-pink marble the alcove in which the pool was situated had a murky dimness. A WORM OF DOUBT
The trouble with being in the spotlight is that it's very exposing, leaving no murky corner or vague uttering unscrutinised. The Sun
There has been a murky conspiracy to keep them out of power.
In the café - a dimly lit concrete shell - they served soto madura, a murky soup filled with unidentifiable animal parts.
His murky past has also been a prominent feature of the campaign. Times, Sunday Times
The British politicians who devised the policy of transportation believed they had the monopoly of rational daylight, and thought of Australia as a benighted, morally murky place.
I had large eyes that most people described as cute; they were a murky hazel.
You get inside, and you're in a murky labyrinth of dead ends and sloping walkways and spaces that might be rooms, but then again might just be spaces.
Obviously, if you are on the radio everyday, saying things like, "The Tutsis are cockroaches and should be attacked with machetes and killed by the thousands, immediately," it's a lot less murky than that time you used a gunsight-looking thing on a poster or talked about the tree of liberty needing the blood of patriots every once in a while. TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
His face stared into the murky sky, shadowed by the shield.
Worse still, the sense of sameness that pervades the look of the film – pasty-faced agents and snarling gangsters, dozens of murky rooms and grimy exteriors, too many of the same characters in repetitive dialogue – keeps it from building momentum or establishing a rhythm that would help the audience immerse themselves in the narrative or the time and place. DVD Review: Public Enemies « Screaming Blue Reviews
The truth about your murky past is safe with me — my lips are sealed.
Detectives investigated the murky world of vice and drugs to track down the murderer.
Everything's crammed in together, bright cheery whites transformed into depressed murky greys. Times, Sunday Times
Infrared is particularly effective for penetrating thick, murky regions of space and revealing what lies beyond.
Weather: A temperature inversion is holding this murky cold, chilly fog close to the ground. Archive 2005-12-11
Everything's crammed in together, bright cheery whites transformed into depressed murky greys. Times, Sunday Times
The sky was an azure blue, extending over New York skyscrapers in the distance, and the water below and beyond was a murky, deep green.
Emerging from Cocytus dark and from Tartarus murky Satyricon
The Pixies had already crossed over into the murky netherworld of alt-rock ‘legend’ status long before releasing their final album, Trompe Le Monde, in 1991.
A slew of sculptors have emerged in Los Angeles in the last few years, but most seem stuck in either constrictive formalism or murky surrealism.

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