Definition of swampland
: swamp 1
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Examples of swampland in a Sentence
attempting to build on swampland
the ecology of the coastal swamplands
Recent Examples of swampland from the Web
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Archival footage and stellar images of the band practicing endlessly in a rundown cabin in a swamplands filled with gators and mosquitos underscore what the band was all about.
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Retention ponds and thick grasses on some of the property’s perimeter allow the Steinbrenner Field complex, built on swampland, to maintain remnants of that ecosystem.
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While Botswana’s northern swampland was ridden with disease-carrying tsetse flies and malaria, Mr. Selby and his clients traversed the bush in style.
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Mastodon bones were first discovered in swampland in Phillips Park in January 1934.
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Asheville’s Zydeco Ya Ya, which shares CGG’s love of swinging party music and all things swampland, will again be a part of the festivities; horn players Molly Brown and Greg Jarrell join in for the first time this year.
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Once upon a time, the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain consisted of so much unused swampland.
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The graveyard in the neighboring village of Kwigillingok, or Kwig, is also sinking into swampland.
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For those who don’t live in Florida, Miami may — to them — look a little something like this right now: A vast swampland, devastated by Hurricane Irma, where residents live in the dark and take boats down its flooded roadways.
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First Known Use of swampland
1662
SWAMPLAND Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of swampland for English Language Learners
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: wet land that is partly covered with water
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