The word 'marshes' is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to areas of low-lying wetland, often covered by grass and other vegetation. Example: The exploration team had to navigate through the marshes in order to reach the river that ran through the jungle.
He and his friends had gone diving into the mud on the marshes.
The best site in the British Isles may be at Ballaugh Curragh marshes on the Isle of Man where, between October and March, harriers gather to roost before sunset.
She spent long vigils lying, mud-splattered in the marshes, lens poking from vegetation, in pursuit of elusive water rails, bearded tits and a juvenile bittern, and her pictures proved the latter species was not extinct in Britain after all.
The area is surrounded by creeks, marshes and reed beds where you can have fun bird-watching or fishing for crabs before enjoying a warming pint by the fire in the Lord Nelson.
The sea on shingle is quite noisy but when you dropped down off the path there was a wall and, once you got on to the marshes, the sound of the sea went and it was quiet except for the slight moan of the wind and reed beds that make a dry rattling sound.
Three massive temples, built by the Greeks, tower over the ironing-board flatness of the surrounding marshes that lead to the sea - marshes that once harboured the malaria that drove away the city's population and left it a romantic, ghostly ruin.
3 miles west of Junctions 6 and 7 of M5. Between Wicken and the marshes of Spinney Abbey, a large shaggy dog is said to roam.
At their party conference last month in Turin, the Democrats of the Left rubbished her proposals, especially those that would deregulate the market.There is a sense, moreover, that the ex-Communists, who had veered fast towards the middle ground a few years ago, may be pulling back towards the marshes of the old left.
A century ago Wular and its surrounding marshes covered more than 217 square kilometres (84 square miles), making it one of Asia's larger freshwater lakes.
To sell the scheme to a sceptical public, the authorities have garbed it in green, with an associated programme aimed at regenerating 150,000 acres of wetlands and marshes.
It is a brilliant, dynamic, exciting city which covers what would otherwise mostly be bland fields and marshes.
