Example Sentences

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Jeroen Geurts, an ecologist at the Dutch water research institute KWR, wants the country to embrace its natural swampiness.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2022

"Milly's Garden" roams casually, like an Allman Brothers jam minus the swampiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2015

The swampiness keeps most larger animals, such as forest elephants and leopards, away, but small animals, including river hogs, thrive.

From Washington Post

Though its distance was not more than twelve miles from the coast, the journey proved to be very fatiguing, owing to the swampiness of the ground between the mountain and the sea.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

We landed at eight p.m., on Halkett Island, intending to encamp, but owing to the swampiness of the ground the tent could not be pitched.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John