Get to know Marshes better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Marshes in a sentence
Marshes meaning
plural of marsh
Using Marshes
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of marsh
- In the example corpus, marshes often appears in combinations such as: the marshes, marshes and, and marshes.
Context around Marshes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Marshes
- In this selection, "marshes" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, salt, pontine, mesopotamian, near, leisurely and road stand out and add context to how "marshes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include address in marshes road warnham and an extensive marshes network has. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "marshes" sits close to words such as almonds, assassinate and avoidable, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with marshes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The salt marshes in town. (5 words)
Some breed in marshes, some in salt-marshes. (8 words)
In Minnesota, cattail marshes often provide the best winter cover for pheasants. (12 words)
An analysis by the University of Maine suggests that a significant portion of the Maine’s salt marshes – between 28% and 57%, depending on the sea level rise scenario – could be gone by the end of the century. (38 words)
The airline’s pilots fly to six continents and 140 diverse destinations – from San Francisco to Auckland – and across all terrains – over glaciers, deserts, forests, canyons, marshes and mountains, even the North Pole. (33 words)
What was once an extensive marshes network has shrunk today to a few isolated ponds of stagnating brackish water, stinking of dead fish and highly polluted, sitting amid large swatches of desert landscape. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Pius VI also attempted the daring job of draining the Pontine Marshes, which he did with little success, but did successfully drain the marshes near Citta della Pieve, Perugia, and Spoleto.
Some breed in marshes, some in salt-marshes.
Black buffaloes wade through the waters of Iraq's Mesopotamian marshes, leisurely chewing on reeds.
For around two decades, the sands and marshes of Long Island’s Gilgo Beach kept a dark secret.
In areas where marshes do not naturally occur, human interventions can help with their establishment.
In Minnesota, cattail marshes often provide the best winter cover for pheasants.
Now is the time to stand in awe – no other word will do – and watch their great hordes coming through the dusk to roost in coastal marshes.
Police said emergency services responded to the incident at an address in Marshes Road, Warnham, near Horsham.
She said: “The middle of the marshes has got as good wildlife as if you went to a nature reserve in Kent somewhere.
The airline’s pilots fly to six continents and 140 diverse destinations – from San Francisco to Auckland – and across all terrains – over glaciers, deserts, forests, canyons, marshes and mountains, even the North Pole.
The salt marshes in town.
This six-mile stretch of coastal grazing marshes, fresh and saltwater lagoons and saltmarsh has fabulous views across the Solent to the Isle of Wight.
To the west the embryonic Wharfe continues up Langstrothdale for five miles before becoming lost in the marshes of Oughtershaw.
What was once an extensive marshes network has shrunk today to a few isolated ponds of stagnating brackish water, stinking of dead fish and highly polluted, sitting amid large swatches of desert landscape.
An analysis by the University of Maine suggests that a significant portion of the Maine’s salt marshes – between 28% and 57%, depending on the sea level rise scenario – could be gone by the end of the century.
Before entering the Tasman Sea, south of Auckland, the Waikato River forms an estuary, which feeds a network of marshes and creates numerous small islands.
Caught in the middle are the migrants themselves, including many women and children stuck in hostile marshes and forests along the border.
Estuaries, marshes and vleis, rivers and lakes, and the biodiversity that they preserve, matter for our health, food supply, tourism, and jobs.
Few visitors are likely to understand how the estuary’s existence helps them, but without people, one of the last salt marshes in Southern California would simply disappear.
I grew up near the coast, and the egret on the card looked just like the ones I used to watch in the marshes when I was little.
Common combinations with marshes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the marshes 33×
- marshes and 32×
- and marshes 14×
- salt marshes 12×
- marshes of 6×
- marshes in 6×
- of marshes 4×
- marshes near 3×
- in marshes 3×
- marshes to 3×