swampier; swampiest
swampiness
noun
Examples of swampy in a Sentence
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Innumerable swampy pockets of water make the area difficult to traverse.
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Daniel Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
Angry residents blame shoddy construction for their swampy yards; the company that built them casts doubt on their claims but pledges to investigate them; government officials point to the clay soil underfoot.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2024
When the driver attempted to pull over on the side of the road, the bus entered a swampy area and became stuck in the mud.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
As Hong Kong passed a new national security law, the city that evolved from a swampy fishing village to a financial center embarked on another transformation, one that may redefine its role on the world stage and the liberties of its citizens.
—Kanis Leung, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2024
Holland’s Venice Jury Prize-winner derives its name from the swampy forests found at the border between Poland and Belarus, a perilous place where hundreds of migrants — mostly from the Middle East and Africa — try to make their way into the European Union.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
Indeed, Miami often seems engaged in a battle against its own wild, swampy environs — a conflict that plays out with growing urgency in the city’s architecture.
—Alice Newell-Hanson Stefan Ruiz, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
Clearly, something’s rotten in the swampy state of Texas.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
His strengths are on full display when the numbers are integrated into the world of the characters, the swing of a hammer or a pick-ax lending a song its rhythm, the wooden planks of a storefront or the bar of a swampy juke joint becoming a dance floor.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2023
Daniel Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
Angry residents blame shoddy construction for their swampy yards; the company that built them casts doubt on their claims but pledges to investigate them; government officials point to the clay soil underfoot.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2024
When the driver attempted to pull over on the side of the road, the bus entered a swampy area and became stuck in the mud.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2024
As Hong Kong passed a new national security law, the city that evolved from a swampy fishing village to a financial center embarked on another transformation, one that may redefine its role on the world stage and the liberties of its citizens.
—Kanis Leung, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2024
Holland’s Venice Jury Prize-winner derives its name from the swampy forests found at the border between Poland and Belarus, a perilous place where hundreds of migrants — mostly from the Middle East and Africa — try to make their way into the European Union.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
Indeed, Miami often seems engaged in a battle against its own wild, swampy environs — a conflict that plays out with growing urgency in the city’s architecture.
—Alice Newell-Hanson Stefan Ruiz, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
Clearly, something’s rotten in the swampy state of Texas.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
His strengths are on full display when the numbers are integrated into the world of the characters, the swing of a hammer or a pick-ax lending a song its rhythm, the wooden planks of a storefront or the bar of a swampy juke joint becoming a dance floor.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2023
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swampy
adjective
ˈswäm-pē 
ˈswȯm-
swampier; swampiest
: consisting of, relating to, or resembling swamp
swampiness
noun
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