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Example sentences for "murk"

Lexicographically close words:
muriates; muriatic; murine; murio; muris; murkier; murkiness; murky; murmur; murmure
  1. Weird, horrid monsters appeared to rise out of the murk to threaten and affright.

  2. It broke off in a sort of choking gurgle, and in a flash the laugher had wheeled about and was swallowed up in the murk of the passage.

  3. Somewhere in that encompassing murk an alien and inimical intelligence skulked.

  4. Alone, she rested a burning forehead against the lifted window-sash, straining her vision to follow his shadow as it moved through the murk of the court below and lost itself in the deeper gloom of the opposing wall.

  5. We can all enter into the feelings that gather about a group of children dancing round a Maypole in the Park; but in the murk and din and demoniacal activity of the Locomotive Works the appeal is not so obvious.

  6. Whistler or Monet might picture for us the murk and mystery of this pregnant gloom.

  7. All around the time machine, there was a heavy gray murk in which objects were hinted at rather than stated definitely.

  8. All around the time machine, there was a soupy gray murk in which objects were hinted at rather than stated definitely.

  9. And my thought was, "I hope to God the moon is shut so deep In cloud-murk there in the East that hurricanes Can't blow her out of it.

  10. A gull rose out of the murk with wings that tore it-- Life's answer to the storm's terrible starkness.

  11. To squabbling birds the roofs declaim Their little tale of misery; And, smiling over murk and shame, A wild rose blows by Bermondsey.

  12. Here, out of murk and mire, Here is our throne.

  13. She saw the murk of smoke and shadow, the light of flicker and flare, the shrilling voice, the posturing figure.

  14. She could see the murk of smoke and shadow, the light of flicker and flare on the circling faces round the shrilling voice or posturing figure of a woman.

  15. How in the murk and rain of death could the whole gather the maimed, know the living from the dead?

  16. His intimate knowledge of the position of the war vessels would be of use in this murk and darkness.

  17. They died fast, by cannibalism, and horrible feuds fought out in the murk of the midnight jungle.

  18. And out of the murk there came from afar a blue-and-white pigeon which circled largely several times over the offices of the Signal.

  19. High factory chimneys rose over the horizon of slates on every side, blowing thick smoke into the general murk of the afternoon sky, and crossing the western crimson with long pennons of black.

  20. And while I was watching all that I could somehow, by a faculty which we have, at the same time see pigeons far overhead, arriving and arriving out of the murk from beyond the verge of chimneys.

  21. As MacRae came in out of the murk along the cliffs, his one good eye was dazzled at first.

  22. Along the creek-bed roads and over the mountain-scaling trails that day, a girl was taking a twenty mile walk from the clean dormitory of the college to the vermin-infested murk of a cabin on Troublesome.

  23. The speaker turned and disappeared into the general murk of the interior, and the girl followed her without comment, but with a suddenly born hatred for the man who had come from a cell back to the family which she must call her own.

  24. Then Newton Spooner became a thing without consciousness, and a faint spark of realization flickered back into the murk of the major's brain, and laid on his sick soul the same necessity.

  25. No--by the murk of that ghastly vision, by the shadow of the skulker among the dead, it was murder!

  26. Merrily the camp-fires blazed up, paling the shimmer of a myriad of soaring fire-flies, and sparkling through the murk like a broken lava stream.

  27. A postern gave entry to the room from a narrow platform, and from this ledge a stairway cut in the flank of the cliff dwindled into the murk of the forest below.

  28. Staring into the murk of the court wreathed round with a garland of fire, he saw, above the heads of the crowd, a woman standing on the steps of the fountain, leaning against the brim of the basin.

  29. Yeoland withdrew into Fulviac's room, and thence into the murk of the gallery leading to her bower.

  30. In the murk of the unlighted street we bumped into a group of four uniformed figures.

  31. Minutes before they reached the ground, hot, dusty murk thickened around them.

  32. Through the murk they saw that the wind had flattened and scorched every airdome.

  33. And my thoughts of her in the murk of night * For love hath make my being unbe.

  34. Then they again embarked and taking with them the gazelle, set out to return homeward, but the murk of evening overtook them and they missed their way on the main.

  35. To the darkness of the day was added the sombreness of falling night as the three began the ascent of the Murk Muir Pass.

  36. Just there a plank bridge crosses the stream, and, beyond, the Murk Muir Pass crawls up the sheer side of the Scaur on to the Mere Marches.

  37. Here was a man who had saved my life so many times I had lost the count of them, feeling for my throat in the murk of that October night as my bitterest foeman might.

  38. They came together in the murk of the Wednesday morning, my Lord Cornwallis and that poor fool Gates.

  39. Nothing was in sight but the waves shaping in the murk and passing us, and the blurred outline of a ketch labouring under reduced canvas to leeward.

  40. This he unclosed and it yielded him a key which he applied to the lock and it forthwith opened and admitted him into the Treasury where, for exceeding murk and darkness, he could not see what he hent in hand.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "murk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.