How to Use swamp in a Sentence
- Alligators live in the lowland swamps.
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So much for draining the swamp.
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Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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Who is the woman found in the swamp?
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Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Asian swamp eels have no pectoral fins.
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Sarah Perkel,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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Asian swamp eels are novel hunters, too.
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Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
12 Mar. 2026
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See you later, the swamp (drained or undrained).
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Alexandra Petri,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2026
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It should have been called swamp or something like that…trench.
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Christine Terrisse,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2026
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On the coast, there is a swampy coastal plain with mangrove swamps.
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Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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In time, that can mean someone gets trapped in a swamp of debt.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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While here, be sure to take a boat tour through the swamps of the bayou.
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Josh Laskin,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Sep. 2023
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And the woods can be pocked with streams, ponds and swamps that freeze quickly.
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Luis Ferré-Sadurní,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2024
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Mosquitoes don’t need a swamp or a pond to thrive.
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Ryan Brennan
april 30,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2026
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Van Hove, though, hasn’t quite got the grit to stay down there in the swamp.
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Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2022
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This is a rural mix of marsh, swamp forest and pinelands.
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Bruce Beehler,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Aug. 2025
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The sun rose above the trees and splotched the swamp floor with patch es of golden light.
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Charles Elliott,
Outdoor Life,
21 Aug. 2025
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The swamp makes its own food, in the form of paperwork.
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Fergus McIntosh,
New Yorker,
6 Aug. 2025
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Indulge at a spa, recline by a pool, or tour a swamp.
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Jenny Adams,
Travel + Leisure,
24 June 2026
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Lowest since the first man to crawl out of the swamp hosed himself off.
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Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Jan. 2026
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That means all swamp eels are born females, and some become males.
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Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
12 Mar. 2026
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Answers to these questions had been lost, like the fortress, in the swamp.
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Matthew Hutson,
The New Yorker,
21 July 2023
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That’s the headwaters of the swamp.
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ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Asian swamp eels threaten wading birds.
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Sofia Baltodano,
Miami Herald,
17 Feb. 2026
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Just make sure to pair these bad boys with your favorite no-show socks to prevent swamp feet!
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Christian Gollayan,
menshealth.com,
4 Apr. 2023
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After a brief debate, the group settles on the swamp.
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Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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That could swamp clinics, forcing people to wait longer to get care.
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Claire Bugos,
Verywell Health,
17 Mar. 2023
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Heavy rains turned the desert site into a swamp, stranding thousands.
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Dakota Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Sep. 2023
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Avoid using swamp coolers or whole house fans that bring in air from the outside.
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Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
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Even checking email felt like wading into a swamp.
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Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
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Avoid using swamp coolers or whole-house fans that bring in air from the outside.
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Austin Turner,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
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The park also has springs, swamps, and rivers, plus stunning canyon vistas.
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Opheli Garcia Lawler,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Aug. 2025
- The sea level rose and swamped the coastal villages.
- The boat sank after it was swamped by waves.
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She has been swamped with offers but this one felt right.
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Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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She has been swamped with offers, but this one felt right.
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Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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She has been swamped with offers, but this one felt right.
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Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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She has been swamped with offers, but this one felt right.
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Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
10 Nov. 2025
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Bear tracks led into the pool pump room, swamped in a foot of mud.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Sep. 2023
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Now the risks are swamping the rewards.
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Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
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Alas, these local heat sources swamp the pitiful flames of primeval stars.
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Quanta Magazine,
3 Dec. 2021
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The rapid spread of a bar outbreak can swamp public health workers.
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CBS News,
2 July 2020
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But clerks are swamped, with little time to read through a case file that is often thousands of pages.
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Mary Jordan,
Washington Post,
4 Nov. 2023
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But Hogan said the project would swamp Rutledge with traffic.
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J. Scott Trubey,
ajc,
11 Dec. 2021
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That means swamping the left with mail in votes, early votes, and election day votes, have to do it.
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Lalee Ibssa,
ABC News,
4 Mar. 2023
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But once again, a big pop would generate a fee-swamping flood of soft dollars.
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Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
10 June 2026
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He could be swamped by his feelings, like a kid wearing a shirt several sizes too big.
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Jamie Fisher,
The New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2023
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Their failure will allow his millions to swamp their campaigns.
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Dick Wadhams,
The Denver Post,
5 Apr. 2020
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On the other, employers are swamped.
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Nicholas Wyman,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Rehmet said he has been swamped with phone calls from Democrats wanting to replicate his success.
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Philip Jankowski,
Dallas Morning News,
19 Feb. 2026
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Don't wait until tax season, when they are bound to be swamped, to ask questions and strategize.
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Medora Lee,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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Despite the palpable tension, not all are swamped in gloom.
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Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
19 Aug. 2025
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All of it together can swamp even those who are most assiduous about their health.
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CBS News,
3 Jan. 2026
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Some business owners said they are being swamped with new texts and emails offering funds.
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Gretchen Morgenson,
NBC News,
3 Apr. 2020
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His total of 20 swamped the next best of 14 from Joe Rodon.
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Beren Cross,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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Bernal splashes the water to create waves, which threaten to swamp the paper boats.
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Kiona N. Smith,
Forbes,
6 June 2021
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Piastri jumped the start, then got swamped on the grid after his anti-stall system kicked in.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
22 Sep. 2025
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Spring is a great time to put this all into play, but landscape planners are already getting swamped.
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Neil Sperry,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Feb. 2024
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Patients with heat stroke and burns from the asphalt are swamping hospitals.
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Jack Healy,
New York Times,
31 July 2023
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That means swamping the left with mail-in votes, early votes and Election Day votes.
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Josh Dawsey,
Anchorage Daily News,
17 Apr. 2023
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Emergency call centers across the country are also swamped with calls.
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Grant Lancaster,
Arkansas Online,
5 Mar. 2023
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Its navigation system had been swamped by a burst of radio signals from the gun.
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Aaron Krolik,
New York Times,
19 Nov. 2023
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