How to Use marsh in a Sentence

marsh

noun
  • The lake is edged by tules and has a small island and a marsh.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Her body was found a week later, in a marsh a few miles away.
    — James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Shannan's purse, shoes, cell phone -- even her jeans were found in the marsh.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 14 July 2023
  • Keep the marshes please and do something smart for once.
    — Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Oil seeps into the marsh mud and affects the worms and snails.
    — Joan Meiners, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The birds can be found in fields, farms, brush and marsh edges and stay in an area year-round.
    — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Snow geese lifted north from refuge marshes.
    — Josh Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The farmer corralled the snowmelt and erased the valley, its desert and marsh.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Go to the shooting range, or invite them to watch the sun rise in the marsh.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 15 Dec. 2020
  • In a low point to the south, a small cattail marsh gathered runoff from the area.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2017
  • All is not well in the marshes of Velen.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Astley was found dead in a marsh in 2011.
    — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Wood ducks will come to a roost site, often a marsh, in the evening by the hundreds.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 15 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Signe finds Hess in the marshes and attacks.
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 7 May 2026
  • They were meant to drain the malarial marshes once and for all.
    — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2012
  • The seafood and fish were caught from the fecundity of the marsh.
    — Padma Lakshmi, Time, 24 June 2020
  • Ravenna, a jewel in the midst of a marsh, was a place of paradox.
    — Anthony Kaldellis, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
  • In one, raindrops spark like fireflies against a marsh muted by a storm.
    — Amy Paige Condon, AJC.com, 10 June 2026
  • The marsh there feels endless, the live oaks along the shoreline ancient.
    — Michael Adno, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • Wind and waves washed sand and mud over growing marshes, helping to build up the land.
    — John Upton, Scientific American, 14 May 2017
  • The reptiles like to dwell near rivers, springs, and brackish marshes.
    — Moná Thomas, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Also, you’d be surprised how many turkey hunters won’t cross a creek or a marsh.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • We're seated on the edge of a small marsh near the mouth of the Slough Creek drainage.
    — Jacob Job, Scientific American, 4 June 2021
  • The study at the Chesapeake marsh did in fact represent all plants.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Over the past few decades, many square miles of marshes have been paved over in the Houston area.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2017
  • To his right, colors bloomed in the marshes, the tents of homeless people.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The marshes, pitch pines and scrub oaks give an outer Cape Cod feel to the park.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 15 May 2018
  • The baskets are set end-to-end about 20 feet from shore, with gaps to match inlets in the marsh.
    — Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 28 Aug. 2017

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