How to Use marsh in a Sentence

marsh

noun

• To the north, she is linked to a marsh, and to the west a canal ties her to Lake Hart.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
• To the west stretched the total black darkness of the marsh.
  — Gena Steffens, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
• We're seated on the edge of a small marsh near the mouth of the Slough Creek drainage.
  — Jacob Job, Scientific American, 4 June 2021
• The lake is edged by tules and has a small island and a marsh.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 Nov. 2020
• The marsh has been through my mom’s side of the family.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2021
• Go to the shooting range, or invite them to watch the sun rise in the marsh.
  — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 15 Dec. 2020
• The work isn’t done, and the marsh isn’t yet beautified.
  — Jen Schwartz, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2018
• The seafood and fish were caught from the fecundity of the marsh.
  — Padma Lakshmi, Time, 24 June 2020
• Oil seeps into the marsh mud and affects the worms and snails.
  — Joan Meiners, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2019
• The birds can be found in fields, farms, brush and marsh edges and stay in an area year-round.
  — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2019
• The space will evoke the magical marsh where Tiana and Naveen take refuge in the film.
  — Tim Walters, USA TODAY, 29 July 2021
• Gilbert and his wife have been camping in their RV next to the marsh since April.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
• This is the third year in a row that a family of swans has been raised up in the marsh.
  — Bob Hallinen, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2022
• Wood ducks will come to a roost site, often a marsh, in the evening by the hundreds.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 15 Feb. 2024
• Shannan's purse, shoes, cell phone -- even her jeans were found in the marsh.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2020
• Her body was found a week later, in a marsh a few miles away.
  — James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• The marsh is expected to take at least four years to build.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Dec. 2020
• Some know the marsh along Turnagain Arm used to scream with the calls of pipers, snipe, ducks and geese.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2021
• Ravenna, a jewel in the midst of a marsh, was a place of paradox.
  — Anthony Kaldellis, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
• Her dear friend's body wasn't found for a week, in a marsh near the Broad River about 5 miles away.
  — Elijah Nouvelage For Cnn, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
• The marsh there feels endless, the live oaks along the shoreline ancient.
  — Michael Adno, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
• The study at the Chesapeake marsh did in fact represent all plants.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
• The people who came down to the docks that morning lived on a lump of mud and marsh about 12 miles from the mainland.
  — Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
• The sketch showed a drake and hen mallard dropping into a marsh.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2021
• The Holkham estate sits in the middle of the north Norfolk coast, a bulging rump of fields and marshes on the North Sea.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2019
• To his right, colors bloomed in the marshes, the tents of homeless people.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Some of the Bronx is rocky and wooded like upstate, and some is oceanfront marsh and beach.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• The highlight for the group was a cooper's hawk perched on a branch and superbly camouflaged in the browns and tans of the marsh.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
• Raised railroad tracks and a Nike missile site upset the natural flow of the marshes and wetlands.
  — Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
• Marshmallows are believed to date back to the ancient Egyptians, who made the treat out of the mallow plant, typically grown in marshes.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024