Sentence examples for muck at the from inspiring English sources

He gets into my head when I'm asleep, and picks through the muck at the bottom of my skull.

The Miriam Moran guns its engine and pulls, spitting out exhaust and churning the black-brown muck at the bottom of the river.

Some 145 million tons of waste, from the Truman-era primordial muck at the marshy bottom to more recognizable castoffs of the early Bush years, will traverse the sludgy slope to decomposition, an unseen simmer of microbial breakdown.

For that one he had to brave the green muck at the bottom of Duck Pond, stepping on things he dared not identify, but "The Golden Triangles of Central Park" was worth the effort.

Because of the dangers, McKinlay and Rhea, who were diving as a team, double-checked the depth numbers on each other's tanks and verbally ticked off items from a mental list while standing, shoulder-deep, in the muck at the edge of Turner Sink.

It was rumored that he had been carried off to Angola, the state prison; or that he had been locked in the Jefferson Parish jail; or — the theory favored by many — that he was buried in the muck at the bottom of some bayou.

He's a big muckety-muck at the Central Intelligence Agency.

"All the time," said Christina Greeven Cuomo, a muck-a-muck at the company that publishes Gotham and Hamptons.

To hold the river muck at bay and prevent collapses of the unstable ground during excavation, the engineers first dug a 3-foot-wide trench 70 feet deep -- all the way down to bedrock -- around the entire 16-acre construction site.

Other times, it more closely resembles ink, tar or the carbon muck found at the bottom of an oven.

She gave me one frantic look and threw herself down in the muck, flailing at the earth with her bare hands.