How to Use murk in a Sentence

murk

noun

• The silent road in its eerie murk.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
• At last, a few gleams of paving stone showed through the murk in the lane below.
  — Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
• That lightless, see-through murk is dark matter.
  — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2026
• Mueller’s inability to get to the bottom of the murk did not make the murk any less murky.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
• Sturridge’s hand shoots up from the murk, grasping the air and slapping the planks before his body follows.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2025
• Tian's research assistant is standing up and her shadow falls upon the chartreuse murk.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 11 June 2026
• Leave it to these three to drift into the murk of a warehouse club for a near decade, and come back bigger rock stars and more powerful a band than ever.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026
• Lyrics drown in the murk of excessive amplification.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
• The murk posed a real threat to Texans with emphysema or asthma, to the elderly or the infirm.
  — Scott W. Stern, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2026
• In a stream of southern China filled with plant debris, a pinkish river creature with wrinkly lips swam through the murk, perhaps searching for a meal or a mate.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
• White noise swirls like smoke and Kenyan guest vocalist Lord Spikeheart’s sinister laughter punctuates the murk.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 Mar. 2026
• Nature infects everything, from the woodland murk that surrounds the town to the insects infiltrating Josie’s life, and Amor writes about it all with equal beauty and grotesquerie.
  — Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
• Patches of unintelligibility are nothing new in Pynchon, but usually a coherent world view gleams upward from the murk.
  — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
• The Hollywood Reporter senior editors Alex Weprin and Steven Zeitchik came together to shed some light on the mega-murk.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
• This dash of skepticism is welcome, in the cauldron brew of the Marlovian legend, yet even Kuriyama is faced with certain details, at once verifiable and highly suggestive, that float in the murk.
  — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• Accidental melodies fade in and out of earshot; pulsing chords rise up from below and are swallowed back into the murk, only to be replaced by other pulses running at different tempi, giving the impression of wheels within wheels within wheels.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 21 Feb. 2026
• In the evening of March 1, an oil tanker turned off its transponder about 25 kilometers (15 miles) east of the emirate of Sharjah and disappeared into the murk of jammed signals over the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow chokepoint that separates the Persian Gulf from the open ocean.
  — Priyanjana Bengani, Bloomberg, 7 Mar. 2026