How to Use mud in a Sentence

mud

noun

• The car was stuck in the mud.
• He tracked mud into the house.
• Each square of the tile floor was covered with a mud mask.
  — Nicole Pyles, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2024
• The body parts that are not coated in mud are covered in crap.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
• The last half mile is on foot, past lowing cows and lagoons of mud.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• The animal wasn't moving, and its head was stuck in the mud on the riverbank.
  — Seth Carnell, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• Piers stretch out onto the mud, and boats lie on the beaches a half-mile from the water.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• Those that exhort that our minds might be stuck in the mud are lacking in faith in the strength of our minds.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Does the nature of the mess (stuff left out vs mud on the floor, for example) matter?
  — oregonlive, 11 July 2023
• Canada geese were pecking in the mud along the edge of the Truckee River.
  — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• The grass surface wasn’t complete on the field yet, Miller said, so the rain turned the ground quickly into mud.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 15 July 2023
• The surrounding mud flats, dunes, and beach are all public land.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2023
• The snow didn’t bother her in March, the mud didn’t dissuade her in April, the bugs didn’t discourage her in May.
  — Chris Bohjalian, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• Visitors need to scramble across rocks and mud to get to the water.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
• The older sister strips to her socks when the viscous mud starts claiming shoes.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• The footpath winds past piles of junked cars, and over marshy tundra with the texture of a wet sponge, toward a mud pit.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Someone had daubed the date in mud with their finger; an attempt to mark a moment in time.
  — Richard Fisher, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Back at al-Fanar street, a man calls for help to dig out the bodies of four children from under the mud.
  — Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
• Cons The tread is shallow which could lead to slips if mud or other debris got lodged in those crevices.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
• Flounder and speckled gobble them up when hopped across a sand or mud flat.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• There was a flash, and the whoosh of several incoming shells sent the team diving into the mud.
  — Michael Schwirtz David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
• Fire and ice, rivers of mud; destruction from the skies, emotions overflowing on the ground.
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• The heaviest runoff and mud/debris flows will be on the eastern slopes of the Santa Rosa Mountains.
  — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
• This year's event was marred by a late-summer storm that stranded people for days in foot-deep mud.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
• Left to flow, the unearthed springs turn dirt roads into unstable slicks of mud.
  — WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
• Sunday’s call for help was the second mud rescue call of the season, the department said.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
• There are more than 400 mud volcanoes in the country, including the world’s largest.
  — Nell Lewis, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
• Our shoes get dragged through the mud, grass and streets on a daily basis, so dirt buildup and stains are almost inevitable.
  — Taryn Mohrman, Good Housekeeping, 20 Apr. 2023
• More than fifty houses were buried under tons of mud of debris.
  — Patricia Oleas and Cesar Olmos, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2023
• Sometimes a clump of mud kisses the wide-angle lens and the photographer winds up with dirt.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024