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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 details on the causes of death and the causes of the cardiac arrests are still murky.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 6 Nov. 2021
  • This is where things get murky, based on the Michigan usage.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Unlike the current war, the smaller state broke the peace, in ways that made the war morally murky.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • So, Mingo, last year’s No. 39 pick, has a bit of a murky setup.
    — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2024
  • But much about the the agreement, which was brokered by Lukashenko, remains murky.
    — Anna Frants, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2023
  • The following morning, the sky was dark, the air was full of ash, and the horizon was a murky crimson.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Now the future is murky again — a ripe time for a neighborhood walk.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2022
  • And the events leading up to the discovery of the body on her property are murky, even to her.
    — Karla Peterson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • But the rules are murky and 'published' is a term of art in copyright law that was not well-defined.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 2 Jan. 2025
  • How much money the song has earned is murky; the record company wouldn’t talk about it.
    — David Bauder, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Both the answer — and the conditions — are a little murky.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 31 May 2024
  • Slowak is painting her love life, her fantasies, and the murky night world of her desire.
    — Agata Slowak’s Personal Jesus, Vulture, 21 June 2023
  • The question of who owns the artifacts gets a little murky.
    — CBS News, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The future is murkier for the Gophers’ 2025 recruiting class.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2025
  • In the current landscape of college basketball, a carousel of transfers and monetary opportunities, the water of this question is as murky as ever.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 Mar. 2025

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