Sentence examples for marshy by from inspiring English sources

Settlement on Lake Poopó's shores previously made marshy by filtration of water into the lake bed—had long been sparse, but the disappearance of the lake forced many people to relocate.

Julius Caesar held an event with 6,000 naumachiarii in the lesser Codeta, a marshy area by the Tiber, to celebrate his fourth victory to be honored by triumph.

Raised 2 to 3 meters above the surrounding marshy lagoon by centuries of human habitation, the city was approximately the size of Pompeii.

Her body was found in a marshy area by a bicyclist Monday morning with her throat cut and a bungee cord wrapped around her neck.

In "Poet Strolling by a Marshy Bank," a painting by Liang Kai inspired by Chan Buddhism (known in Japan as Zen), the landscape seems to split and fold over on itself, like dough being kneaded by a celestial hand.

I met Siu at a construction site near a scrap-metal yard, surrounded by marshy fields of water chestnuts and lilies, crosshatched by footpaths.

In rural Alberta and Saskatchewan, the term "bluff" is used to describe a small group of trees isolated by prairie and "slough" (pronounced sloo) refers to a small area of marshy land isolated by prairies.

The mainland shorelines are dominated by a marshy transitional zone chiefly populated by red mangrove and black mangrove growing from the shallow water, with white mangrove growing farther back from the water's edge.

At its mouth the Zambezi splits into a wide, flat, and marshy delta obstructed by sandbars.

Saw grass sweeps to the horizon, in a marshy expanse broken by islands of slash pines and gumbo-limbo trees.

The nests were largest in non-cultivable marshy wasteland followed by bund of non-cultivable marshland and within standing paddy crop fields.