How to Use murky in a Sentence

murky

adjective

• She peered into one of the church's murky chapels.
• The fourth floor was murkier still, the fifth even worse.
  — Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
• In the background, the murky ocean and cloudy skies can be seen as the two stand on a deck.
  — Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
• A lot of gotchas and hiccups are bound to be in that murky soup.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
• At that point, the details were still murky: at 10:22 P.M.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
• Turns out, the origins of the Key lime pie are a little murky.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 27 June 2023
• That makes the right-versus-wrong sense of this more than murky.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2024
• The boy's white t-shirt had a murky tinge in a post-mortem photo.
  — Rosa Flores and Rosalina Nieves, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
• There are parts of it that are very murky and there are parts of it that are quite vivid.
  — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
• Her eyes were murky green and always cast upward and to the left.
  — Ottessa Moshfegh, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
• But that bill’s path to passing in the Senate is murky.
  — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 22 May 2024
• The boxy shape of a vehicle looms out of the murky greenness.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2022
• And his Canucks future is murky in the extreme in the wake of Tuesday’s news.
  — Harman Dayal, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
• The inclusion of roast beef just seemed to muck up the mix, which read as a murky, meaty mash.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• But the rules around setting a route record in bikepacking are murky.
  — Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 3 June 2022
• Still, the fundamental case for adding to the stock is murky.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 Dec. 2024
• The two friends straight-lined it down the hill, crossing the freezing murky puddle.
  — Anna Fiorentino, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
• Stafford’s status at training camp has been murky, to say the least.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• The details on the causes of death and the causes of the cardiac arrests are still murky.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 6 Nov. 2021
• After those three games, the crystal ball starts to look more murky.
  — Matthew Soderberg, Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2021
• This is where things get murky, based on the Michigan usage.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
• Though the Tigrayans appear to have the upper hand, for now, around Mekelle, the picture in the rest of the region is still murky.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2021
• The future of the Broncos’ ownership has been murky for the past few years.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2021
• The water in this part of the Seine, on the western edge of Paris, is only slightly murky.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
• In terms of public attitudes to these vehicles in Europe, the picture is murky.
  — Laurie Winkless, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
• The case begins with murky motives.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2026
• But what is going on in people’s brain during this period is still murky.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2026
• Its exploitation would raise murky questions about who owns the water and can access it.
  — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• The details of the emerging agreement remain murky.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 24 Jan. 2026
• Recent heavy rain had drained into the harbor, turning the water murky, police said.
  — CBS News, 24 Jan. 2026