How to Use murky in a Sentence

murky

adjective

• She peered into one of the church's murky chapels.
• The fourth floor was murkier still, the fifth even worse.
  — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
• In the background, the murky ocean and cloudy skies can be seen as the two stand on a deck.
  — Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
• At that point, the details were still murky: at 10:22 P.M.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
• Turns out, the origins of the Key lime pie are a little murky.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 27 June 2023
• That makes the right-versus-wrong sense of this more than murky.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2024
• There are parts of it that are very murky and there are parts of it that are quite vivid.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
• But that bill’s path to passing in the Senate is murky.
  — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 22 May 2024
• The inclusion of roast beef just seemed to muck up the mix, which read as a murky, meaty mash.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• This is where things get murky, based on the Michigan usage.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
• The water in this part of the Seine, on the western edge of Paris, is only slightly murky.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
• So, Mingo, last year’s No. 39 pick, has a bit of a murky setup.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2024
• But much about the the agreement, which was brokered by Lukashenko, remains murky.
  — Anna Frants, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
• And the events leading up to the discovery of the body on her property are murky, even to her.
  — Karla Peterson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• Both the answer — and the conditions — are a little murky.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 31 May 2024
• Slowak is painting her love life, her fantasies, and the murky night world of her desire.
  — Agata Slowak’s Personal Jesus, Vulture, 21 June 2023
• But the provenance of some of the more alarmist Biden-is-feeble memes, many of them built on raw footage of a few stumbles, is murky.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024
• That means when the Bengals’ offense has had murky starts this year, its struggled to find a rhythm.
  — Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 5 Nov. 2022
• Moody’s track record is even murkier, perhaps through no fault of his own.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
• The art market might be a murky place, but stealing is still stealing, and fraud is still fraud.
  — Rosa Lyster, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
• The broth should become a murky yellow-brown, with some fat on its surface.
  — Amethyst Ganaway, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• The arrangement gets murky when sparks start to fly between them.
  — Leah Hall, Country Living, 8 Dec. 2022
• Thick, murky chords fall over one another to emerge, as the work moves fitfully from one state to the next.
  — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• What’s more, the waters around the Ace are visibly—and legally—murky.
  — Andrew Lawrence, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2022
• The murky sediment load carried by one keeps its distance from the clear blue-green of the other.
  — Marianne Karplus, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
• The show’s take on the other people involved is murkier.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
• But the impacts are murkier when broken down by El Niño strength.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• The broth, rich with funk, is sprinkled with a green confetti burst of cilantro, a bit of brightness atop the soup’s murky depths.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• For now, the reservoir − normally clean several feet below the surface − is a murky brown from sediment.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
• And for anything that goes back earlier in history, whether that is hay fever, food allergies, or asthma, the story gets murkier due to a lack of reliable records.
  — Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024