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How to use muddy in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, verb, noun

Muddy means covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”). Example: “He slogged across the muddy field.”

Examples of muddy by meaning

adjectiveCovered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).

  • He slogged across the muddy field.
  • Take off your muddy boots before you come inside.
  • I came out of the army like dragging myself muddy out of a swamp.1952 September 19, John Steinbeck, chapter 15, in East of Eden, Chicago, Ill.: Sears Readers Club, published 2002, →ISBN, section 3, page...

adjectiveOf water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.

  • The previously limpid water was now muddy as a result of the struggle between the alligator and the wild boar.

adjectiveNot clear.

  • At the end of a class or a lecture, ask students to write for one or two minutes about the "muddiest point" of the lesson (the part of the lesson that is still not understood clearly).2008 December, “Assessment, Grading, and Cheating”, in Classroom Management (Idea Book Series; Information Collection and Exchange...

adjectiveOf a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.

  • Muddy colors are often the result of mixing complementary colors—those opposite each other on the color wheel.2026, Pamela K. Schultz, “Primary Shift”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 27

adjectiveOf sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.

  • The television picture is decent, but the sound is muddy.

verbTo cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.

  • If you muddy your shoes don’t wear them inside.
  • He smiled, flung himself at them, splashed them, ducked them, kicked them, muddied them, and drove them out of the pool.1908, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, “Twelfth Chapter”, in A Room with a View, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, part II, page 200

verbTo confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.

  • The discussion only muddied their understanding of the subject.

verbTo make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.

  • The addition of the second batch of paint muddied the bright colours to a dull and washed look.

More sentences with muddy

  • You'll get your coat all muddy if you trail it around like that.From the entry trail
  • Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.From the entry heck
  • The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste.From the entry plunder
  • I've only just cleaned the floor, and you've made muddy tracks!From the entry only just
  • We could not see the sandbar due to the opacity of the muddy water.From the entry opacity
  • Certain South-east Asian snakes are luticoles and have a special side-winding gait for moving over muddy surfaces.From the entry luticole
  • On such a muddy day, the carpet of the hotel lobby was soon unattractively footmarked.From the entry footmarked
  • I have childhood memories of muddy crabs scampering over mudflats at low tide.From the entry childhood memory
  • Although it was very muddy, the football game went on.From the entry although
  • A road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.From the entry hubby
  • My washing machine has gone on the fritz, and I have a load of muddy clothes to clean.From the entry on the fritz
  • Wallis was unsuitably shod for the muddy hike.From the entry shod
  • I hardly see the point in washing the tent when it's going to be used in a muddy field tomorrow.From the entry see the point
  • We had to slog our way through muddy fields.From the entry one's way
  • In an attempt to alleviate the problem, wooden planking, known as duckboards, was placed at the bottom of trenches and across other areas of muddy or waterlogged ground.From the entry duckboard
  • ORR does not need strong-arm tactics from DfT muddying the waters."2025 July 9, David Stubbings, “Network News: Open access row: DfT accused of "strong-arm tactics"”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 6. From the entry strong-arm
  • When faced with a rockier or muddier section, look ahead for the easiest way across.2021, Claire Maxted, “Quick Start”, in The Ultimate Trail Running Handbook: Get Fit, Confident and Skilled Up to Go from 5K to 50K…. From the entry rocky
  • Poor acting and a muddied plot are the least of this contentious Netflix drama's problems.2017 July 14, Alex Flood, ‘To The Bone’ – Film Review. From the entry muddied
  • Escorted by an entourage of large flies, we made our way through a grid of muddy corrals.2013, Mary Roach, Gulp. From the entry kitten heel
  • Gutters separated the sidewalk from the road on both sides and flowed with muddy water.2008, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns. From the entry gutter
  • Brolgas ruffling their wings against water ribbons, making the muddy bath flinch in coiling waves.2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 241. From the entry brolga
  • If the riverbed were too muddy to offer the pole enough resistance, the technique was less effective.2004, Verne C. Huser, “Traveling upstream and down”, in On the River With Lewis and Clark (Environmental History series), volume 19, Texas…. From the entry river bottom
  • On the muddy path leading from her village, dozens of corpses lay unburied.1996, Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1. From the entry Guangshan
  • Hedging, as I was learning, is not just skilled work but also cold, rugged, muddy, and backaching.1993, National Geographic (volume 84? 184? page 110). From the entry backaching
  • But it had just rained in Barkol and the dirt road outside the city was muddy.1989, Che Muqi (车慕奇), 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122. From the entry Barkol
  • They are tired and muddy from their long march through the night.1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry Bolivian marching powder
  • The stickwomen complain that the conditions become especially muddy and dangerous when it rains.1984 March 23, Sue DePasquale, “Are All College Athletics Created Equal?”, in The Washington College Elm, page 6. From the entry stickwoman
  • He’s a middle-aged Litvak, a stocky man in mud-spotted trousers that drip over dried muddy heels.1971, Bernard Malamud, The Tenants. From the entry Litvak
  • Why can’t you stay in when the weather is muddy and blowy?1946, Mervyn Peake, “Flay Brings a Message”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. From the entry blowy

Meaning of muddy

  1. adjective Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
  2. adjective Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
  3. adjective Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.

Full definition of muddy

Questions about muddy in a sentence

How do you use muddy in a sentence?
Muddy is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “He slogged across the muddy field.”
What is a short sentence with muddy?
“He slogged across the muddy field.”
What does muddy mean?
Muddy means covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).

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Adapted from Wiktionary: muddy (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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