How to Use murky in a Sentence

murky

adjective
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  • 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
  • Turns out, the origins of the Key lime pie are a little murky.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 27 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • But much about the the agreement, which was brokered by Lukashenko, remains murky.
    — Anna Frants, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But now that Patrice Bergeron has hung up his skates, the next choice of captain might be a bit murkier to read.
    — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Under the water, the man appears as a skeleton, suspended in the murky sea.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Sometimes the images are murky and have a reddish color because of the smoke, Gwilym said.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
  • In the sea, where waters churn and grow murky, light really has only one way to go: down.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In short, there are – ahem – depths to the onscreen pool party, more murky than shimmering.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
  • While the precise fate of the task force remained somewhat murky, that seemed like a bit of an afterthought.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 14 July 2023
  • The fact that most come via the resale market—and have murky provenance as a result—makes Waller even warier.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Overall, the legal status of Delta 8 in Texas is somewhat murky.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The murky line started at the base of the woman’s neck and extended over her shoulder and down her arm halfway to the elbow.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Canada: The legal status of Phenibut in Canada is murky.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • To his left, dive teams worked to free the remains of two construction workers from a red pickup truck submerged in the murky deep.
    — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Pac-12 future The Pac-12's future is, to be reductive, murky.
    — Kevin Skiver, Detroit Free Press, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The report’s timeline of when exactly the program began to come apart is murky.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • His draft prospects have been murky due to an unspecified injury he’s dealt with during the process.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
  • While the cocktail's beginnings may be murky, a Chilton sounds like just the drink to quench your thirst after a sunny day on the golf course or the tennis court.
    — Brennan Long, Southern Living, 24 Dec. 2023
  • As with many of the mass shooters in America, Sturgeon’s motive is murky.
    — The Courier-Journal, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Although the origins are murky, the earliest records of falconry trace back to Asia and the Middle East more than 6,000 years ago.
    — Kaila Yu, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Houck’s status puts the Sox rotation in a bit of a murky situation.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023

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