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How to use marshland in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Marshland means marshy land; bog or fen. Example: “Natural catastrophes plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland.”

Examples of marshland by meaning

nounMarshy land; bog or fen.

  • East of Bow Creek, the line ran to North Woolwich along the bank of the Thames, then entirely uninhabited marshland, without roads.1946 May and June, J. G. Holmes, “The North Woolwich Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 173

More sentences with marshland

  • Natural catastrophes plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland.From the entry plague
  • The marshland was bought up by a housing company.From the entry buy up
  • Trenches were dug into the marshlands (marjals) east of the city to drain them.2014, Thomas F. Glick, Steven Livesey, Faith Wallis, Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry marjal
  • Mesopotamian marshlands return to life as they become officially recognised as Iraq’s first national park.2013 Autumn, Veronique Mistiaen, “Iraq’s first national park approved” (main, front-page article) in Positive News, issue 77, page 1…. From the entry Mesopotamian
  • Near the coast, tidal creeks and high marshland formed a landscape with irregular parcellings.2003, Dennis Howard Green, Frank Siegmund, The Continental Saxons from the Migration Period to the Tenth Century, page 38. From the entry parcelling
  • They are raised hilllike areas rising above the surrounding flat marshlands.1983, Rachel Swayze O'Connor, Allie Bayne Windham Webb, Mistress of Evergreen Plantation: Rachel O'Connor's legacy of letters, 1823-1845. From the entry hilllike
  • They can be heard, the Negroes say, crying piteously at night in deep swamps and deserted marshland.1941, South Carolina Folk Tales: Stories of Animals and Supernatural Beings, page 48. From the entry droll
  • Until then, the surrounding area was largely marshland.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 385, about Tremadog. From the entry high-water mark
  • Bermondsey, Stepney, Hackney; there are many of these 'eys' in London and they were all once islands, or higher, dryer points in the surrounding marshlands.2018, Bob Gilbert, Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish. From the entry ey
  • A bereft landscape of sad browns and sepias of winter lay all about us, the marshland drearily protracting itself towards the wide river.1979, Angela Carter, “The Tiger’s Bride”, in Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories, New York: Henry Holt, published 1996, page 165. From the entry protract
  • And maybe Hazira was always going to be a gooey marshland, but that doesn't mean you entice the nation's poorest and most dismissed groups to live there.2023, Rob Verchick, “Climate and Castle”, in The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience, New York, N.Y.; Chichester…. From the entry gooey

Meaning of marshland

  1. noun Marshy land; bog or fen.

Full definition of marshland

Questions about marshland in a sentence

How do you use marshland in a sentence?
Marshland is used as a noun. For example: “Natural catastrophes plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland.”
What is a short sentence with marshland?
“Until then, the surrounding area was largely marshland.”
What does marshland mean?
Marshland means marshy land; bog or fen.

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