How to Use mudflat in a Sentence

mudflat

noun

• From midafternoon to dark, the tides will roll back and unveil miles of beach and bay mudflats.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• Before then, much of the town center existed on land that is now tidal mudflats.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2023
• Irish was drawn to a mudflat littered with glass bottles, which clinked and crunched underfoot.
  — Laura Preston, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• Narrow water channels snake through the mudflats.
  — John Ryan, NPR, 3 May 2026
• One dug clams on tidal mudflats, while a glossy 15-year-old female known to the rangers napped on the opposite bank.
  — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
• Students hike along trails and view animals as well as local beach, mudflat and upland habitats.
  — Karen Pearlman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• Low tide was notoriously noxious, when raw sewage and garbage on the mudflats were exposed.
  — Courtney Humphries, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Her body was found on mudflats near Greenhithe, England on Tuesday.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• This is a quick primer in four parts, by four people who've spent a lot of time wandering around in blizzards and mudflats with notebooks and camera gear.
  — Erin McKittrick, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 July 2017
• The pool was built on unstable mudflats that have shifted over the decades, cracking the pool’s concrete and causing massive leaks.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2026
• During the tour, participants view mudflats along the rim of the massive ponds in the north cell, where a host of gulls, plovers and cormorants hang out.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024
• Noyes to beach it in the mudflats at Clay and Sansome streets, in the center of the commercial district.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2018
• Troops would then have a long slog over Taiwan's western mudflats and mountains to reach the capital, Taipei.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 23 June 2019
• There are wetlands, mudflats, and salt marshes too, all of which help support more than 200 species of wild animals.
  — National Geographic, 26 Apr. 2017
• Among the highlights are Emeryville mudflats sculpture and the gay theater troupe the Angels of Light.
  — Staff and Correspondents, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2017
• This little robot was deployed on a mudflat along with fiddler crabs in southern Portugal.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2025
• Restoration continued on the mudflats, seasonal wetlands, coastal prairie and coastal scrub areas.
  — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Canada's Bay of Fundy is similar to Cook Inlet with its large tides and mudflats.
  — Nancy Lord, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Aug. 2017
• Patches of seagrass meadows and mangrove forests line the coasts, as do mudflats that serve as crucial feeding sites for migratory birds.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 14 May 2026
• More shorebird species will follow, and if the area stays dry enough to expose sandbars and mudflats along the river and area ponds, something really nice may show up.
  — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Steam rises from the glacial mudflats of Turnagain Arm after a summer rain in Alaska.
  — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
• The aroma was evident last summer on the shrinking mudflats of the Bird’s Foot’s outer tendrils.
  — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 9 Jan. 2025
• Still, in moist environments like mudflats, mudskippers can be seen rolling around in the mud to keep a sheen on their skin, flipping side to side in puddles to cool down and freshen up.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
• Read full article The collapse of the walkway led to a chaotic scene in which visitors fell tumbling to a mudflat several feet below.
  — Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
• One day, the hotel arranged for a gentle hike along the Ship Harbor Trail that would lead us past a tranquil cove, mudflats, and a spruce forest.
  — Sarah Bruning, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2025
• Yet more tracks suggest that around a dozen people, mostly women and children, traveled across the mudflat together, striking toward the southwest for parts unknown.
  — Robert Clark, National Geographic, 10 Oct. 2016
• Laman was in Venezuela's Orinoco Basin searching for scarlet ibises, bright orange-red birds that roost among the tangle of mangrove roots and sticky mudflats at dusk.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
• Still, many other questions about the medieval city remain unanswered, researchers said, noting that surveys of the mudflats are intensive and time-consuming.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 21 June 2024
• From its tidal mudflats and fruit farms to the the famous museum and gardens, Sandringham is a versatile estate that has seen many a royal occasion.
  — Chanel Vargas, Town & Country, 13 Dec. 2018
• More than an hour of constant scoping of distant beach and mudflats yielded no snowy plover, though black-bellied, semipalmated, piping and Wilson’s plovers were all present.
  — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024