Explore Muck through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like sludge or feces. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Muck in a sentence
Related words
Muck meaning
- Slimy mud, sludge.
- Soft (or slimy) manure.
- Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
Synonyms of Muck
Using Muck
- The main meaning on this page is: Slimy mud, sludge. | Soft (or slimy) manure. | Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
- Useful related words include: sludge, feces, faecal matter, fecal matter.
- In the example corpus, muck often appears in combinations such as: the muck, muck in, and muck.
Context around Muck
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Muck
- In this selection, "muck" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, playoff, oily, henry and rushed stand out and add context to how "muck" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all the muck that comes and as the muck rushed down. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "muck" sits close to words such as adamson, adapts and adeyemi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with muck
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A handy gift when wading into the muck. (8 words)
Frequent deep cleaning is required to keep the muck at bay. (11 words)
Don't muck about if arguments over money are a common occurrence. (12 words)
Thirteen years after a kayaker reported stepping into a stinging patch of muck in the Congaree River, contractors have cleaned up the toxic mess that covered a stretch of the river bottom below the Gervais Street bridge in Columbia, South Carolina. (41 words)
Witness video showed a huge wave of dirt, water and debris toppling a gate and residents running away as the muck rushed down a city street; other videos showed thick mud coursing through the river banks that pass through town. (40 words)
I was sitting about 10 feet from the floor; even if a UVA player had not grabbed the rebound, the cluster muck to get the ball would have easily drained a few precious seconds more of clock. (37 words)
Choosing this for a career and dealing with all the (muck) that comes with it? (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
As you know, stuff like that isn’t really Gordon’s forte although he will muck in and do the jobs he is instructed to do.
Bushkill Park is left with mud and muck on Sunday afternoon, July, 17, 2023.
But some concert goers *had* to get gone before the roads officially reopenedDiplo and Chris Rock famously hitchhiked their way out of the muck.
But they were good enough to be part of the playoff muck, which is what the grouping had become in the West, and end up on top of the Central Division.
Muck from algae is visible on a paddle by a Cape Cod body of water.
Sailors were tossed or forced to jump into the oily muck below, and Potts and his fellow sailors pulled some to safety in their boat.
That’s asking for trouble; whatever I say someone will have heard of it, and will think it’s as common as muck.
The investigation continues to try to find the person or persons who stole the vehicle and left it abandoned in the muck.
Thirteen years after a kayaker reported stepping into a stinging patch of muck in the Congaree River, contractors have cleaned up the toxic mess that covered a stretch of the river bottom below the Gervais Street bridge in Columbia, South Carolina.
This Worx power washer’s five-in-one nozzle switches between five different levels of intensity, meaning it can tackle the toughest of muck and water your delicate flowers.
Those who traveled to the annual event in RVs were unable to drive through the muck.
Unexpected visitors will create some extra chores for you but everyone will be happy to muck in and make it easier.
Witness video showed a huge wave of dirt, water and debris toppling a gate and residents running away as the muck rushed down a city street; other videos showed thick mud coursing through the river banks that pass through town.
A handy gift when wading into the muck.
Choosing this for a career and dealing with all the (muck) that comes with it?
Don't muck about if arguments over money are a common occurrence.
Expecting your own parents to muck in for free just feels like pushing the same problem back for another generation to deal with; it’s also a personal solution to a collective problem.
Frequent deep cleaning is required to keep the muck at bay.
It helps that Kit Harington's Henry Muck—an equally vacant but richer and more entitled version of Rob—was introduced as Yasmin's new love interest.
I was sitting about 10 feet from the floor; even if a UVA player had not grabbed the rebound, the cluster muck to get the ball would have easily drained a few precious seconds more of clock.
Common combinations with muck
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the muck 27×
- muck in 6×
- and muck 6×
- muck and 5×
- muck of 5×
- of muck 4×
- to muck 3×
- will muck 2×
- muck that 2×
- muck about 2×