often attributive
: a tract of soft wet land usually characterized by monocotyledons (such as grasses or cattails)
Examples of marsh in a Sentence
a wide expanse of marsh
the marshes along the coast support a remarkable profusion of plants and animals
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Fifteen minutes outside of downtown Boulder, Colorado, sandwiched between a golf course and a marsh, is Congregation Bonai Shalom.
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Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 4 June 2025
Before its use as a dump, the land beneath the depot was a marsh along the now-subterranean Givan Creek, which empties into nearby Eastchester Bay.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025
The 396-yard, dogleg right around a marsh was statistically the toughest hole on the course, with a stroke average of 4.43 and only 24 birdies (and 41 double bogeys or worse) in 552 total rounds.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
The film is set among the Mesopotamian marshes of his childhood, where school children glide through marshlands in canoes to get to their classes, at a time when everyday Iraqis across the country were starving due to U.S. sanctions.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 19 May 2025
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Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 4 June 2025
Before its use as a dump, the land beneath the depot was a marsh along the now-subterranean Givan Creek, which empties into nearby Eastchester Bay.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025
The 396-yard, dogleg right around a marsh was statistically the toughest hole on the course, with a stroke average of 4.43 and only 24 birdies (and 41 double bogeys or worse) in 552 total rounds.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
The film is set among the Mesopotamian marshes of his childhood, where school children glide through marshlands in canoes to get to their classes, at a time when everyday Iraqis across the country were starving due to U.S. sanctions.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 19 May 2025
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“Marsh.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marsh. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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marsh
noun
: an area of soft wet land usually overgrown by grasses and sedges
marshy
adjective
ˈmär-shē
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