How to Use marsh in a Sentence

marsh

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  • 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
  • The marsh has been through my mom’s side of the family.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 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
  • Her body was found a week later, in a marsh a few miles away.
    — James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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 study at the Chesapeake marsh did in fact represent all plants.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The sketch showed a drake and hen mallard dropping into a marsh.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2021
  • To his right, colors bloomed in the marshes, the tents of homeless people.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Instead, the culprit must be microbes, either the sort that live in a marsh or the sort that live in a cow’s gut.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The wetland plant is found in shallow marshes and moist soils.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2023
  • The film begins in the fictional Barkley Cove, North Carolina, in 1969, as two boys find a dead body in the marsh.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2022
  • As the marsh has disappeared, many of the delta’s mounds have been exposed to ocean waves, leading to rapid erosion.
    — Boyce Upholt, Wired, 23 July 2022
  • The marsh near his home used to be prime spawning habitat for pike and bass, as well as a staging area for ducks, geese, swans and herons.
    — Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The summer cottages at Long Beach are built on a narrow dune sandwiched between the ocean and a marsh.
    — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Some families cling to life in the marshes, building homes from reeds.
    — Alissa J. Rubin Bryan Denton, New York Times, 29 July 2023
  • Here, a set of gates allows water to pass through a tunnel beneath the levee and into the marsh.
    — Boyce Upholt, Wired, 23 July 2022
  • When her family abandons her at just 6-years-old, Kya's left to raise herself in the marsh.
    — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 29 July 2022
  • The pair has spent time in the marshes of Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens in the northeastern part of the city.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The birds breed at marshes and wetlands across the Western United States and Canada.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Can saving a marsh also save this town from sea level rise?
    — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The sun reflected off the water, the bay as still as a pond, as container ships and marshes framed the city skyline.
    — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Cleanup crews that had swarmed the 25-acre marsh over the past week had moved on, but a woman in a neon yellow vest and rain boots walked slowly along the water line.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The roughly 40-acre marsh, which is fenced off, is open to the public only one day per year each February.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The Gatorland crew gathered for a release into the breeding marsh recently, the fourth one of 2022.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 10 May 2022
  • The more open cattail marsh was, in comparison, less birdy.
    — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Gilbert’s skeletal remains were found in a marsh in Oak Beach in December 2011.
    — Samantha Wanderer, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The skeletal remains of Gilbert were found in a marsh near Oak Beach in December 2011 – not far from where she was last seen running from the home of a client.
    — Angela Bertorelli, Fox News, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Sandhill cranes breed and forage in open prairies, grasslands and marshes.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2023

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