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Sentence Examples Others are swamp blue aster, a pink turtlehead, speckled joe-pye weed, great lobelia, Pennsylvania buttercup, and several kinds of sedges. The original site was a depression adjoining the river, which automatically became a swamp frequented by water birds in the wet times. When she realizes she's in a swamp, instead of digging on the slimy critters with all their crazy ribbits, she freaks out. Then the region was a vast coastal mangrove swamp, similar to the Florida Everglades. As readers will discover, this rare plant species of federal concern grows in bald cypress-tupelo gum swamp forests in the coastal plain. Open marsh Sandweed grows extensively beneath bald cypress, pond cypress, swamp bay, swamp tupelo, and other trees. The slow seep through the garden wall made the whole area under the grapes a muddy swamp. In seeking to set aside actual swamp and marshland, local advocates found that while wetlands abounded, they were highly altered by human action. The barasingha deer, also known as swamp deer, occur in the moist habitats of Northern India and Nepal. Sauropods were long believed to be semi-aquatic swamp wallowers, relying on the buoyancy of water to support their massive bodies. The following summer, he led a force into the Mount Hope swamp in Rhode Island, where the Wampanoag chieftain, Metacom, dwelled. Creeks, sloughs, bayous, and swamps, including a large cypress swamp at the base of Crowley's Ridge, ran around the town. Police are to swamp a town with posters in a bid to identify the brutes who battered a father to death in front of his family. Formerly this area of natural swamp would have behaved like other natural wetlands. A sinking feeling of despair welled up within her, threatening to swamp her completely. In beautiful sunshine and beautiful surroundings we kedged ourselves off and managed to catch the last lock of the day into the swamp. Some of the now-defunct tram roads have been cleared and offer easy access into the interior of the swamp. Instead, according to critics, it has become a miasmal swamp of convoluted regulations that disrupt physician autonomy and patient well-being. Bottomland hardwood forests and remnants of swamp forests can be found near the flood control reservoirs. A stray cat scampered across the alley, not sparing a glance at the girl who was wading through an ankle-deep swamp of old newspaper. Show More Sentences And they should have run for their life when they discovered the foul-smelling swamp nearby. And so, in 2001, I actually got to see my first living swamp metalmarks at Dundee Fen in Wisconsin. The beast roars up at you and grabs your neck, dragging you into the swamp with it. I went out to a swamp and sat in the middle of a canoe while George and Stephen rowed me. In between are cinnamon fern, giant sword fern, long strap fern, royal fern, and swamp fern. If not effectively checked they may swamp the Assamese people and may severe the North East land mass from the rest of India. The area of low-lying swamp or marsh, as revealed through archaeology, is shown in brown. The Mimika region is largely a low-lying swamp intersected by rivers on Irian Jaya's southern coastal area. Before the tableland rose entirely above sea level, the waters covering it became increasingly shallow and a swamp forest moved into the niche. Women lamented the time devoted to journeys further and further into the sago swamp to process sago as whole tracts of palms were unusable. Lay down the law on all of this and you risk wading into a swamp of disputes about context and ownership. Lismore Lake provides a variety of habitat for swamp hen, ibis, egrets, and herons as well as many small waders. Sedges, bluejoint grass, boneset, and swamp milkweed dominate the community. The look is deliberately natural, with an emphasis on indigenous plants such as swamp mallow and drought-tolerant ornamental grasses. Under nearly every square mile of the swamp lie these ducts, though water and vegetation have hidden their scars. We followed the canal into another wooded area, this one with swamp forest trees instead of mangroves. Barbuda has sandy beaches and a large lagoon and mangrove swamp on its western side. The three men raised both arms as they walked ashore and into a mangrove swamp. Every spring, female lemon sharks return to give birth in the shallow waters of a lagoon edged by a mangrove swamp. They marched until they were knee-deep in a mangrove swamp, then simply turned around. Show More Sentences His remains, which lay undisturbed for 59 years, have been found in a swamp near the town of Nieuw Chappelle, along with the wreckage of his plane. Later in the spring, she and Elisabeth saw another kind of heron, an American bittern, skulking in some grass by a swamp. The signal lights blinking only amber meant that one hapless policeman made a valiant effort to control traffic which seemed to swamp him from all directions. There's a legal quagmire between this requirement and your right to keep a trade secret, and some truly nasty patent battles have been fought in that swamp. Two alligators were sitting at the side of the mangrove swamp near Nassau. Emergent plants such as cattails, pickerel weed, swamp candle and rooted floating plants such as yellow and white water-lilies and water parsnips were identified. When will he appear from the swamp and swallow up her nakedness hungrily, sharp-set, to rid the world of the dirt that we sweep under the carpet to repress. Monongahela includes Cranberry Glades, where you'll find Swainson's and hermit thrushes, mourning warbler, northern waterthrush, and swamp sparrow. Our new training oval that replaced the best surface in the AFL at Victoria Park, is nothing more than an undersized windswept ghetto that was once a swamp. If your garden has a low, damp area, plant moisture lovers like the rosy-flowered swamp milkweed, Joe-pye weed, forget-me-nots, bee balm, and meadow sweet. Plants at Holliday Park that are usually confined to fens are swamp blue aster, speckled joe-pye weed, and a rather rare species of pink turtlehead. Mounds, called hummocks, are the growing medium though which tangles of swamp laurel, Labrador tea, salal and native cranberries and blueberries grow. Each cell receives a slow trickle of swamp cooled air which does little to alleviate our suffering in the summer months when we feel like we are being baked alive. After each volcanic eruption, the volcanic texture of the ash would have been obliterated when the swamp plants recolonized the ash, turning it into soil. He was treed by bloodhounds in the swamp on the outskirts of my holdings. The Daily Beast's Michael Moynihan heroically ventures into the fever swamp. Africa's largest reserve, the Selous, is a massive 55,000 sq. km. of trackless wilderness covered by brachystegia and miombo woodland, palm fringed swamp and sand rivers. Moving coastwards from the northern borders of the Niger Delta, one comes across a transitionary zone of swamp lands. The Carreyesque magnitude of bellowing and pratfall can't swamp the charming warmth of this gay Gallic delight. Once upon a time, as the fairybooks say, there was a swamp along the islands guarding Miami, Fla., from the sea. Show More Sentences Pass a trail registration station, crossing a swamp on a footlog at 0.2 miles.... Cross a small branch at 0.9 miles on a footlog. As with most of Europe, prehistoric Britain and Ireland were covered with forest and swamp. Born on a lilypad in a Mississippi swamp, Kermit the Frog was on of several thousand children. It also includes tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, a freshwater swamp forest and mixed deciduous forests. Next morning there was an answering signal from the swamp where the sumacs grow. Etymologically, the name of Bray comes from the Gaulish word braco, which became the Old French Bray, meaning marsh, swamp, or mud. It includes the vast swamp region of the Sudd, formed by the White Nile and known locally as the Bahr al Jabal. The lake may be infilled with deposited sediment and gradually become a wetland such as a swamp or marsh. Interbreeding can swamp the rarer gene pool and create hybrids, depleting the purebred gene pool. Maximinus' first campaign was against the Alemanni, whom Maximinus defeated despite heavy Roman casualties in a swamp in the Agri Decumates. After several months of fighting native inhabitants through wilderness and swamp, the party reached Apalachee Bay with 242 men. Landing on the island can be challenging, as the surf can swamp the landing boat. North of this is fresh water swamp, containing different vegetation from the salt water swamp, and north of that is rain forest. Here's the section women have been patiently waiting for after trudging through a swamp of quasisexist discussion. As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it. This area of lowlands, flood plains, and swamp land is sometimes referred to as the Delta region. During transportation, helicopters are commonly employed to transfer the newly harvested moss from the swamp to the nearest road. Through this plantation ran a creek full of snakeheads and eels, its overflow swelling the swamp around it. Recendy I found several swamp white oaks growing at Ruth Zimmerman Natural Area, Berks County, in southeastern Pennsylvania. Because the seed of swamp white oak is not dormant, it germinates soon after falling. Show More Sentences But this is no stream, folks. This will be a tidal wave that can swamp our democracy. Then on to an aeroboat swamp ride, a popular weekend activity for locals and chance to scare some swamp creatures. Unlike other tortoises, the western swamp tortoise feeds and breeds in shallow swamps in winter and aestivates in summer. It's a melting, ice-cream city built on a swamp and is practically uninhabitable without aircon. Most of the angiospermous swamp trees that occurred in this wetland were uprooted. Her kids were rarin' to go, sizing each other up against the giant tires on McCandless' swamp buggy. While I know that they, like me, are up to their keesters in alligators, they'd best remember to also worry about draining the swamp. Restored prairie, mixed swamp, and early succession forest were significant carbon assimilators, but for different reasons. On the way they fall out, consider ending it all in an alligator swamp and refind their love of hallucinogenic drugs. Cryptic diversification of the swamp eel Monopterus albus in East and Southeast Asia with special reference to the Ryukyuan populations. Then you walk through dawn in an ancient swamp with giant club moss, giant tree ferns, and calamite trees. Taxodium distichum, the American swamp cypress, is an interesting tree which lives in waterlogged ground in its native habitat. The bluffs above the swamp are the only known home of the carinate pill snail, a species once thought extinct. Den Callie run off and married dat yella gal, Sooky, from 'cross de swamp yonder. It's Bullfrog Calling Season in the swamp and Spitbug Season in the parsnips. Yeager took the photo while balancing on a raft in a muddy Jamaican swamp. It transitions into the swamp system gradually with gallberry and staggerbush serving as a strong indicator of the transition to saturated soils. At the same time we got speared, the horses got speared too, and jumped and bucked all about, and got into the swamp. This year's Register will see many new champions, including the smooth blaekhaw and swamp chestnut oak. Aristocrats owned the sago palms and the swamp land on which they grew. Show More Sentences Besides home to many rare species, you can easily spot the larger sambar and the hard-ground barasingha, swamp deer, whose resurgence is Kanha's best success story. The bonobo is endemic to the humid forests in the region, as are other iconic species like the Allen's swamp monkey, dryas monkey, aquatic genet, okapi and Congo peafowl. Another important brackish water habitat is the mangrove swamp or mangal. Some aristocrats complained that, in the future, the government could compel them to pass any bill, simply by threatening to swamp the House of Lords with new peerages. Much of the state's lands were formed from sediment washed down the Mississippi River, leaving enormous deltas and vast areas of coastal marsh and swamp. Helen sat on the ground crumbling hard lumps of clay between her fingers, and tried to imagine the green place in the swamp where the dingleberries grew. Working closely with GFC, Oglethorpe Power replanted designated wetland areas with pond cypress, bald cypress, red maple, swamp chestnut oak and water tupelo trees. Under an agreement reached by Oglethorpe Power and the GFC, designated wetlands areas are being replanted with red maple, cypress, swamp chestnut oak and water tupelo trees. Species presented include the baboon, chimpanzee, gibbon, gorilla, Japanese macaque, mangabey, Allen's swamp monkey, De Brazza's monkey, the sacred baboon, and the orangutan. Examples from Classical Literature For that reason, swamp white oak does not give very satisfactory results when quarter-sawed. My exasperation with self was by no means allayed when I tripped over a stone and fell my length in a sludgy patch of swamp. They went down the road to the swamp, climbed the snake fence, followed the path to the old trail and then turned south upon it. Along the concession road, past the new church, through the swamp, and on to the old churchyard the long procession slowly moved. They landed in a cypress swamp on Congaree River, and found themselves waist deep in water and mud. We passed successively from one swamp of black pine to another, over ridges covered with white pine, all precisely alike. My first school, where I was so proud to be received, was a hovel on the edge of a swamp. The inflow of white blood was small, and much of what did come lost itself in the dismal swamp of miscegenation. In this typical swamp the buttonbush, Cephalanthus occidentalis, is practically the only plant present. There was great rejoicing when the parties of the Iceni met again in the swamp. Once in a while some of the men would go into the swamp and still-hunt wild hogs, and we would get some fresh pork. Washington at this time was forest, swamp, and morass, with only an occasional and incommodious house. Our rookery was in the middle swamp a day inland from Talimeco, safe and secret. Probably he was tired of water, and swamp and water, and scraggy trees and water. Pickens and dooly also pressed through the swamp, and the battle was renewed with great vigor. The red maple, or swamp maple, Acer rubrum L., has leaves deeply lobed with the lobes sharply toothed. Taku-Wakin could no more lead them out of the swamp than his stick would leave him. Man, although he had just come, became king of this swamp, king for the night. I have never seen Lucy since, and my haggard features and buttonless coat testify that the swamp doctor is still a bachelor. He and his crowd have a shack in the swamp, where they camp out from time to time. Show More Sentences At this point, Marcus noticed a brown something bearing a strong resemblance to the swamp stalk, known among boys as the cattail. A bald cypress in a swamp of Florida responds to different surroundings with equal profit. An ideal resort for it is a grove of oak or swamp maple near a stream or pond where it can bathe. The reds of the swamp maple and scarlet oak are brighter, but no tree has a richer color than this one. One morning, from the emerald-green of a swamp maple, a single branch flamed out a crimson-red. A swamp maple grows at this stump as a back for my seat in this reception room of the jewel-weeds. The cienaga de Zapata is the largest and most easily drainable of the swamp areas mentioned. Again, the spring redness of the swamp maple is hardly less vivid than its mature coloring of the fall. The swamp white oak loves to stand in wet ground, sometimes even in actual swamps. In its youth the swamp white oak is comely and symmetrical, its untidy moulting habit concealed by the abundant foliage. As well might the vapours of the swamp be purified by filling it with the firedamp. On the south coast, directly opposite Matanzas, lies a vast swamp known as the cienega de Zapata. That that grows out of the foxfire in the swamp has its roots too far back in the inheritance of the race to be discounted. In the swamp known as the cienega de Zapata are both alligators and crocodiles, some of them of quite imposing dimensions. A good many of my jaunts took me past the gallinule swamp before mentioned, and almost always I stopped and went near. Hamilton was busy, about this time, dredging in swamp pools and securing specimens of the rockhopper or Gentoo penguin. But she began to confide in Tom after this evening of her return from the tamarack swamp. This monster dwelt in the swamp of Lerna, but came occasionally over the country, destroying herds and laying waste the fields. All the way up the creek I had been hearing the throaty ghouw-bhouw of a great blue heron off in the swamp. It is then the great horned owl of the swamp courts his mate, the big hawks pair, and even the crows begin to take notice. Show More Sentences But more lovely than any of the shrubs along the river was that small tree known as the sweet bay or the swamp laurel. With him to show the way the swamp became merely a hard, grueling mush through boggy lowlands. The logs of corduroy roads through the swamp are incrusted with a shelf fungus of marvelous hues. The swamp white oak grows to a height of more than a hundred feet, and is fond of the borders of swamps. Then a great swamp called for description, and before we were through with it, I had about a peck of boiled sweet potatos. After carrying the shote into the edge of the swamp, bruin had stopped and made a hasty meal upon the porker. And reaching the edge of the swamp, he threw him out into the muddy water, headfirst. And Beagle heard a noise he thought was a fox barking and he started for the tamarack swamp, lickety-split. Mars Jawge, if you'll come down into de swamp I'll show you a whole stack o' water-moccasins. I must have that girl, dad, or this town is a blackjack swamp forevermore. A half-hour south they'd found 28 dead whitetails together in one white cedar swamp when the snow melted. In winter it was an inland sea and in summer a noxious swamp. Oona no walk in da' swamp 'cep' you is keer you' coat 'cross da' arm. Gradually the dark outline of coastal swamp and forest was uncurtained. When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest woods the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. Don't she boss him round like the overseer on a cranberry swamp? Paludosella is a diminutive of palus, gen. paludis, a swamp or marsh. She will drench us, but I don't much think she will swamp us. Oh, maybe it's the one who escaped from the everglade swamp. There's a great black sea of suspicion and doubt creeping up to swamp the little spark of intuition inside us. Show More Sentences Dey even took de trunk full o' 'federate money dat was hid in de swamp. He ran out to the middle of the swamp, disturbing the duck as he ran, and sat down on a moss-coated tree-trunk lapped in the black water. Can't you see you're all just floundering in a perfect swamp of ignorance? He has worn the yoke and carried the scar into furrow and swamp. The salt tang of the sea gladdened his nostrils, and he snorted with the pleasure of the stench of the mangrove swamp. Beside it were the crumbling remains of the cottages of the miners, driven away no doubt by the foul reek of the surrounding swamp. Then they heard the call of the horned owl from the border of the swamp. One was the great fire on shore, by which the defeated pirates lay carousing in the swamp. Now it was the lullaby of the song sparrow or the swamp sparrow. Then he drew his hunting knife and cut a tall, slim swamp maple. Then, on the night of November 3, while sitting in a thin row of trees along a cattail swamp, I had another 145-inch 8-point approach my stand. I have untied against you the club-footed vines, I have sent in the Jungle to swamp out your lines. The likes of floating pennywort, Australian swamp stonecrop, water balsam, parrot's feather and fairy moss grow very quickly. But to go at it and drain the swamp was a very different matter. A nuisance on Balera, which is the equivalent of a Terran swamp. Above them I banked dry lengths of swamp maple and post oak. The habitat by swamp maple, desert willow, and seaside alder. It is the swamp maple, the red maple, the river maple, the scarlet maple. That spring, Jesse had bought part of a long strip of black swamp land that lay in the valley of Wine Creek. In the course of time Kagh came to the edge of a tamarack swamp. Show More Sentences Then the scene again changed, and they were in a slimy, malarious swamp. With the first heavy rainfall,' I've told 'em, 'your road will be a swamp. These are swamp deer, and they're in many ways unlike the other subgroups. When we had come up to the wall of the city we crouched down beneath our armour and lay there under cover of the reeds and thick brushwood that grew about the swamp. He dragged you through an Arkansas post-oak swamp, let you dry for a moment on the alkali plains of his Idaho ranch, then whirled you into the society of Viennese archdukes. Over the moat Will sprang, through the bushes and briars, across the swamp, over stocks and stones, up the woodland roads in long leaps like a scared jack rabbit. Our woods teem with them both, and around every swamp may be seen the partridge or rabbit walk, beset with twiggy fences and horse-hair snares, which some cow-boy tends. So the Chairman appointed a committee to watch for the victim at midnight, and take him as he should attempt to sneak into town across-lots from the tamarack swamp. Two sows and a dozen large shoats shuttled out of the swamp in front of us to a patch of clover and began rending purple flowers into piles of sand. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of swamp? Words that rhyme with swamp What is the past tense of swamp? What is the plural of swamp? What is the adverb for swamp? What is the adjective for swamp? What is the noun for swamp? Translations for swamp Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words swamis swami swam swallow-tailed swallowtail Swallows Swamp swamped swamper swampier swamping swampland 5-letter Words Starting With s sw swa swam