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• They passed through the murky nepheloid layer.From the entry nepheloid
• “Who has the right to make decisions for stepparents becomes murky.”2024 March 8, Paula Span, “When Elder Care Is All in the Stepfamily”, in The New York Times. From the entry stepparent
• With the advent of AI chatbots, the ethics of parasocial relationships just keep getting murkier.2023 May 11, Maggie Harrison, “Influencer Creates AI Version of Herself That You Can Rent as a Girlfriend”, in Futurism. From the entry parasocial
• The UK's fares 'system' is a shark-infested murky pool that is 'under review'.2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 42. From the entry shark-infested
• He could see the cot but nothing more than a murky silhouette covered in a blanket.2010, Andrew J. Peters, “The Vain Prince”, in Radclyffe [pseudonym; Lenora Ruth Barot], Stacia Seaman, editors, Myth & Magic: Queer Fairy…. From the entry dungeon master
• As she rocked against him, she couldn′t stop watching his murky eyes grow even more hazed.2008, A. J. Hampton, Hostile Devotions, unnumbered page. From the entry hazed
• The overall atmosphere is not merely murky but tenebrized and quite literally night-soaked.2006, Dani Cavallaro, “Oshii’s Technopolitics”, in The cinema of Mamoru Oshii: Fantasy, Technology, and Politics, Jefferson, N.C.; London…. From the entry tenebrize
• Notwithstanding the hecticity of the murky atmosphere, in which there was not a quiver from the U.1913 August 10, Jerry Mack, “Knell of Day Terminates Game in the Ninth With No Decision; Umpire Sullivan Calls Off Fray With Score Even Up…. From the entry hecticity
• Gripping the long branch of a speckled alder tree, ecologist Deborah Landau slowly steps into the waist-deep murky water.2022 June 3, Mark Hendricks, The Guardian. From the entry speckled alder
• Suzhou Creek was little more than an open sewer for decades as its murky waters coursed through the heart of Shanghai.2021 June 1, Keith Bradsher, “China’s Concrete Jungles Make Room for Green Space”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Suzhou Creek
• Crooked law enforcement, corrupt lawmakers, dirty-handed and hypocritical adjudicators and other miscellaneous murky state and Federal government officials.2014, Vance Munraff, Sounds Like Paradise, →ISBN. From the entry dirty-handed
• The origin of the term "blue law" is somewhat murky.2010, Garrett Peck, “BLUE LAWS”, in Rachel Black, editor, Alcohol in Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood…. From the entry true blue
• Saarinen and his seven dancers disappeared into this language, leaving the audience to squint through Mikki Kunttu's thick, murky lighting design.2007 November 9, Claudia La Rocco, “Brooklyn Convocation of Shakers (and Movers)”, in New York Times. From the entry outflung
• Even though the beavers had moved on, the silt remained as a deep, inviting, wet, and murky mass of quicksandlike mud.2004, Jim Hohnberger, Come to the Quiet, page 85. From the entry quicksandlike
• Recognition has nothing to do with the Army and a lot to do with fraternitylike hazing traditions of murky origin.1998 May 4, Michael Winerip, “The Joys of Recognition: A First Name and a Bathrobe”, in The New York Times. From the entry fraternitylike
• Whalelike things that glided serenely through murky depths, warmed by a radioactive core they had assembled in the moon’s core.1995 September, Gregory Benford, “The Place of Angry Gods”, in Sailing Bright Eternity (The Galactic Center Novels; 6), New York, N.Y.…. From the entry whalelike
• Fifty-eighth Street's construction debris ran in murky rivulets.1980, Elaine Suss, A Money Marriage: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry slobber
• It concerned a mermaid, a mermonster, and a giant turtle in a hokey love story and a murky plot.1980, Richard Meyers, The World of Fantasy Films. From the entry mermonster
• The air was obnebulated with murky schemes.1969, C[yrus] L[eo] Sulzberger, A Long Row of Candles: Memoirs and Diaries, 1934–1954, Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company, page 100. From the entry obnebulate
• Trump’s supporters watch the same videos from Minneapolis and find in the sometimes murky images details that to them vindicate the shootings, actions by Ms.2026 January 25, Peter Baker, “For Trump, the Truth in Minneapolis Is What He Says It Is”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry Rorschach test
• Those ancient red boats, with their beautiful carved swans on each side, circled around a murky pond in the middle of the Public Garden.2024 June 11, Kate Spencer, chapter 1, in One Last Summer, London: Pan Books, published 2025, →ISBN. From the entry cash-grabby
• It gets murky in a hurry.2022 December 8, Madison Malone Kircher, Callie Holtermann, “How Is Everyone Making Those A.I. Selfies?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry revenge porn
• But in the murky underground of Singapore’s Thai disco (siam dius) scene, the generalisation of Thai disco girls (siam bus) often carries a certain stigma.2017 August 18, Cheryl Chiew, “Singaporean Girls Speak Their Minds About Local Men Who Date Thai Disco Girls”, in ZULA (blog), Singapore…. From the entry siam diu
• Our formalization thus brings out the fact that treating plurally exhaustive description involves dipping one's toes in the murky waters of the superplural.2016, Alex Oliver, Timothy Smiley, “Plural Descriptions”, in Plural Logic, 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press…. From the entry superplural
• It is filled with ghosts, trolls, evil wizards and witches, pirates living in the murky waters, and terrible traps and poisonous creepy crawlers everywhere.2009, Grace Templeton, Katherine's Quest, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN. From the entry creepy crawler
• But when he strikes out and tries to explain their motivations, he often gets into the same murky pseudo-scientific areas as the more fervent Bigfootologists.1981 March 8, Jim Marrs, “It seems that we’ve all been myth-taken”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, page 7D. From the entry Bigfootologist
• Secured with ballast of repartee, we drifted past murky, shallow waters of literary knawvshawl and found ourselves navigating a course I can't recall we ever traversed.1999, “The Leper and Civil Disobedience”, in Fortnight, numbers 376-390. From the entry knawvshawl
• Police Launch No. 32 sliced through the murky gray-green waters of Aberdeen, navigating the narrow path between fishing junks, sampan taxis and the gaudy Jumbo floating seafood restaurant.1997 May 4, Keith B. Richburg, “China to Buttress Hong Kong Police -- but to What End?”, in The Washington Post, sourced from Washington…. From the entry Aberdeen
• Philosophers have too often thought that they can learn more about human nature by scrutating the murky depths of substance and faculties than by interpreting the obvious evidence.1995, John Lachs, The Relevance of Philosophy to Life, Nashville; London: Vanderbilt University Press, →ISBN, page 251. From the entry scrutate
• I can remember, and not that long ago, when slushy mid-winter days like today always lead my feverish imagination down a murky hallway known as "shacking up."1987 February 8, Robert Storen, “On Being Cozy with Mister Right”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 29, page 7. From the entry slushy
• He frowned, and sent snifts of snow and symptoms of rain that dampened the ardor of the golf contingent and made things murky and dreary outside.1914, “Progress in the Mvement to Promote the Brick Industry”, in The Clay-worker, volume 61, page 652. From the entry snift
• It is not a gossipy yarn; nor is it a dry, monotonous account, full of such customary 'fill-ins' as 'romantic moonlight casting murky shadows down a long, winding country road'.2002, David Crystal, The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language. From the entry fill-in

Meaning of murky

1. adjective Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.
2. adjective Dark, dim, gloomy.
3. adjective Cloudy, indistinct, obscure.

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Questions about murky in a sentence

How do you use murky in a sentence?

Murky is used as an adjective. For example: “They passed through the murky nepheloid layer.”

What is a short sentence with murky?

“It gets murky in a hurry.”

What does murky mean?

Murky means hard to see through, as a fog or mist.