How to Use marshland in a Sentence

marshland

noun
  • At the time, there was at least a half-acre of marshland between the bluff, where the house was built, and the bay.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • As the camera panned through a lush marshland, a voiceover played.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Strolling along the boardwalk is a breezy way to explore the marshland and shoreline.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
  • Huge packs have dug up hills and riverbanks and mowed down marshlands.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Just east of the San Mateo Bridge, the car crashed into a fence and the driver ran into the marshlands.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
  • Now it’s been whittled to about a mile wide by three miles long, most of that marshland that barely clears the tide.
    Earl Swift, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • The name Frogmore was inspired by the abundance of frogs on the estate's marshland.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Eventually, the band of crows — called a murder — lands at the San Joaquin marshlands in Irvine, where the birds will spend the night.
    Hannah Fry, latimes.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • The new marshland study delayed any decision on the fate of the area until at least 2022.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2021
  • The site on the former marshland by the river was preferred by Bacon.
    Michael E. Ruane, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2022
  • As the day waned, Merda found some concrete structures, which gave him respite from the swampy marshland.
    Jonathan Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Her head was found by a sheriff's team picking up litter in the marshland.
    Fox News, 29 May 2021
  • On the other side was marshland, above which a wooden bridge, marked private, led to a house hidden by the trees.
    New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Mammoths once sipped at Tulare Lake’s shores, and tule elk ranged in its marshlands.
    Shawn Hubler, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Rivers and land merge in a giant delta of marshland and mangrove where Tabasco lies at the crook of the Gulf of Mexico.
    Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2019
  • For miles along the state’s edge, including here in Ocean Springs, what would be grassy marshland is now a narrow beach.
    Chelsea Brasted, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Today, the area near the marshland is more known for the low-cost liquor store at the emirate’s Barracuda Beach Resort.
    Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Today, the area near the marshland is more known for the low-cost liquor store at the emirate's Barracuda Beach Resort.
    Jon Gambrell, ajc, 3 Nov. 2022
  • In 1887, a builder named M.C. Wicks tried to create a harbor in the marshlands, only to watch winter storms wash away his progress.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Raad al-Ghali, a buffalo herder in the historic marshland of Chibayish, sits with a cousin.
    Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Which is why Boustany and his team are working to restore areas of key marshland along the coast.
    Gena Somra, CNN, 6 June 2018
  • How the unlucky horse ended up in what was, at the time, an inter-tidal marshland remains murky.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2020
  • There, the streets were littered with small pieces of wood and wire, tufts of grass from the nearby marshland and puffs of pink insulation.
    New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The territory shifts from high plains to rolling mountain ranges, from mesas to marshland, and from wide open prairies to dense forests.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2020
  • The territory shifts from high plains to rolling mountain ranges, from mesas to marshland, and from wide-open prairies to dense forests.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2020
  • These new canals allowed salt water to push up through rivers and streams, and within decades the marshland had begun to erode.
    Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The parts of the state that are not eroded at the shoreline tend to be marshlands lined with mangrove trees, which gets at what the first commenter was saying.
    Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 June 2018
  • In the far reaches of eastern India, four major rivers run through this undisturbed marshland deemed one of the finest wildlife refuges in the world.
    T.j. Olwig, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The home sits above marshland, and the backyard gardens are wild and natural and flanked by meadows on each side.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2023
  • In two decades, the National Guard has added about 200 football fields of marshland, land that's been lost to coastal erosion.
    Rebekah Castor, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2022

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