How to Use mud in a Sentence

mud

1 of 2 noun
  • The car was stuck in the mud.
  • He tracked mud into the house.
  • The field turned to mud around us.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Be aware of rock slides and mud slides.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 26 Dec. 2025
  • The floods reached homes and buried cars in mud.
    — Kathryn Prociv, NBC news, 26 Dec. 2025
  • The smell of salt and pluff mud fills the air.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 31 Jan. 2026
  • That mud, still wet, even though the days had been dry.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026
  • He was covered in mud but was safe.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Her fingers are now streaked with mud.
    — Deborah Levy, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In one clearing a snake writhed in gray mud.
    — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • While the mud is gone, some scars remain.
    — Bryan P. Sears, Baltimore Sun, 23 May 2026
  • Our knees were buckling, and mud streaked our legs.
    — Betsy Andrews, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
  • For now, this Heat squad is a bit stuck in the mud.
    — Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The wheels sink into the soft mud and rip out the grass.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Jett and Andrew both get stuck in the mud.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
  • Hugh and Elijah got their faces buried in the mud.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 18 June 2026
  • All the mud and dust came out in the washing machine.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The golden goose is replaced by a mud hen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Peg would love to play in the mud with baby elephants.
    — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But being a stick in the mud isn’t either.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The body parts that are not coated in mud are covered in crap.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Watch two baby elephants play in the mud.
    — Cate Martel, The Hill, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Chokecherry red with aspen green, with mud brown.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The last half mile is on foot, past lowing cows and lagoons of mud.
    — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • In a few days a thin sheet of water and mud would cover the area.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the chase will be through mud a foot deep and heavy undergrowth.
    — Delbert L. Chears, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Be alert in the mountains for mud, rocks, and debris in the road.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • He was meant to only be the stick-in-the-mud boring guy.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • It's filled with plants, so don't picture a giant mud hole.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That day, a lone killdeer was spotted in the field, poking around the mud.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025

mud

2 of 2 verb
  • To start, use a stiff brush or scraper to remove as much dirt and mud off your tools as possible.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Dec. 2024
  • One dirt road led to his village, and when heavy summer rains turned it to mud, travel was all but impossible.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Elephants use their trunks to throw dirt and mud onto their bodies, providing protection from the sun and from bugs.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Before the weather in Ukraine turns bitterly cold, the challenge for both sides is fall rain that turns fields and many roads to mud.
    — Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Renee agreed, and then added some motherly intuition about the outdoorsy teen who loves to fish and to go mudding with his friends.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • If there were a finder’s fee for incredible archaeology, a lot of it would be paid to mud.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The 40-acre island would be built just upstream of the dam with the sand and mud the corps dredges out of the lock to keep it open for navigation.
    — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • This is simply good cultural hygiene, and slippery slopes are a myth, critics say, as the mountain turns to mud and slides into the ocean.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Mar. 2021
  • As temperatures fall, waves of chilling rain follow, dissolving roads and fields, turning them to mud that mires men and equipment.
    — Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The path had turned to mud in the previous day’s rain, but above us the sky was bright blue, streaked with the wispiest of clouds, and the air smelled briny, with a strong sulfuric tang.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The ground, not yet frozen, has turned to mud, sticking to uniforms and weapons and ensnaring vehicles, military and civilian alike.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The 2,300 truckloads of red Tennessee clay at first turned to mud and blacked out the driver windshields.
    — Jenna Fryer, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The ground, not yet frozen, has turned to mud, sticking to uniforms and weapons and ensnaring vehicles, military, and civilian alike.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Dozens of campsites suggest hundreds of soldiers were stationed in Vyshneve, and the passage of tanks and heavy equipment has turned the ground to mud.
    — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 15 May 2022
  • Runners were greeted with rain thick enough to obscure views, mud quick to soak through shoes and socks, and the red-and-golden hints in the alpine underbrush that fall is, in fact, nearly here.
    — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Rain in the forecast would very likely turn the fields to mud and make the pieces of metal and insulation significantly harder to remove.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • In the past month alone, over 500 shoppers have added the robot vacuum to their carts — just in time for the season of trekking unwanted dirt, grass, and mud inside.
    — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 25 May 2024
  • While Hollywood insiders mud wrestle over who should get which Oscar nominations for what, the rest of us can look forward, not back.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Across from Eichhorn’s house, neighbors on lower ground saw water up to their car door handles, mud several feet deep and parts of the hillside collapsing onto the street.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Integrated gaiters give above-ankle protection to keep slushy snow and mud out while the outer Gore-tex fabric makes the shoe waterproof and windproof, yet breathable.
    — Laura Holt, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The species is found in shallow coastal waters, including in the Gulf of Mexico near rock outcrops and sometimes mud, according to officials.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Though naturally occurring sediment is in dwindling supply from the rivers and creeks feeding the bay, agencies are turning to mud dredged from the bay’s shipping channels to help build these tidal buffers.
    — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The rains weren’t intense enough to immediately wash away the dust, instead turning it to mud, which conducts electricity and causes equipment to malfunction or even ignite small fires on power poles.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Two children were killed Saturday night at a mudding event accident in Middle Georgia, according to multiple reports.
    — Steve Burns, ajc, 17 June 2018
  • Parts of New York City were assailed by more than 3 inches of rain, high winds and threats of hail and tornadoes, while California was digging rock and mud off roads after historic rain swept across much of the state.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2021
  • In North Carolina, where steady downpours swelled waterways and washed rocks and mud onto highways, multiple landslides temporarily closed several lanes on Interstate 40 and closed another highway Tuesday.
    — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2021
  • California concerns turn from fire to mud Intermittent showers sweeping across Southern California on Sunday provided welcome relief for firefighters battling devastating wildfires but threatened to bring an unwelcome side effect — mudslides.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025

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