How to Use murky in a Sentence

murky

adjective
  • She peered into one of the church's murky chapels.
  • Sports drinks can look murky and dusty.
    — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Well, this is where things get murky.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Things get a bit murky at this point.
    — Kerry Jackson, Oc Register, 18 May 2026
  • The horizon was a soft and murky pink.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • But after that, things get murky.
    — Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The bill’s prospects of passing as is are murky.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • From there, things get murkier.
    — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Yeah, like, that's a murky, middle gray area.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But don't think for a second this soup is murky or swampy.
    — Erin Merhar, Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2026
  • As the search slogged through its fourth day, much remained murky.
    — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • A lot of gotchas and hiccups are bound to be in that murky soup.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • The future may be brighter, but the present is still a bit murky.
    — The Athletic Nhl, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • That makes the right-versus-wrong sense of this more than murky.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The boy's white t-shirt had a murky tinge in a post-mortem photo.
    — Rosa Flores and Rosalina Nieves, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • This is where the waters get a little murky.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 June 2026
  • The exact details of the probe are still murky.
    — Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2026
  • In one state, the water was murky and filled with algae.
    — Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • What’s at the bottom is murky and not promising.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
  • This is where things really start to get murky.
    — Mike Straw, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Guidance is scant and the path forward is murky.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 24 Feb. 2026
  • So far, the answers to those questions are murky.
    — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 22 May 2026
  • Whether this aid will be successful is murky.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Her eyes were murky green and always cast upward and to the left.
    — Ottessa Moshfegh, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • But the facts of what happened that night remain murky.
    — Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2026
  • How Georgians will vote in the midterms this year is still murky.
    — Caleb Groves, AJC.com, 2 Apr. 2026
  • But the rules around setting a route record in bikepacking are murky.
    — Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 3 June 2022
  • People should avoid swimming in murky lakes, ponds and streams.
    — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The meaning of the messages is murky.
    — Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026

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