Pontine Marshes

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plural noun

an area in W Italy, SE of Rome: formerly marshy, now drained.

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Words nearby Pontine Marshes

pontil, pontile, pontine, pontine angle tumor, pontine flexure, Pontine Marshes, pontine nuclei, Ponting, Pontius Pilate, Pont l'Évêque, pontlevis

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How to use Pontine Marshes in a sentence

There were marshes and a salmon river nearby and I found a lake with trout or whatever.
Literary City: Sjón’s Reykjavik|Henry Krempels|January 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You had one foot on the asphalt and the other in the marshes.
Literary City: Sjón’s Reykjavik|Henry Krempels|January 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If you lose the marshes and the vegetation, all you're left with is mud, which just slides into the water.
Will the Spill Impact Public Health?|Sara Karl|May 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST
This was bordered by salt marshes only, covered occasionally at spring tides by the sea, some of which extended pretty far inland.
Birds of Guernsey (1879)|Cecil Smith

The great auk is but a memory; the bittern booms more rarely in our eastern marshes; and now they tell me Brigadiers are extinct.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 28, 1920|Various
But the stork was cruel and would not heed him, and led Cedric a weary chase through the marshes and the brakes.
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair
Over the bogs and through the marshes, the madness of despair within him, he heeded not the deep ditches and the bog-pools.
The Underworld|James C. Welsh
We raced our lorry through country looking just like the Romney Marshes, Sussex.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie|George Brenton Laurie

British Dictionary definitions for Pontine Marshes

Pontine Marshes

/ (ˈpɒntaɪn) /

pl n

an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failedItalian name: Agro Pontino (ˈɑːɡro ponˈtiːno)

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