How to Use salt marsh in a Sentence
salt marsh
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In front of us and to our sides is miles of salt marsh.
—Jacob Job, Scientific American, 16 July 2021
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The bottom of those salt marshes is lined with pluff mud.
—Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2023
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The 115-acre farm has a pond, salt marshes, wetlands, and more than three miles of trails.
—BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2019
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Woodstorks, roseate spoonbills and egrets fish the salt marsh.
—Bob Rountree, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2018
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In some places, the grassy black needlerush of the salt marsh almost completely shrouds the old tree stumps.
—Amy Green, miamiherald, 11 July 2018
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Around 300 acres of salt marsh on the west side of the causeway will be protected by the project, the release says.
—Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 15 Aug. 2023
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Construction on the mill began in 1887, built on a salt marsh.
—Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2024
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The winding walkway from the dock to the lodge was built over land, with tall blades of salt marsh cord grass on either side.
—Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
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One of the best walks in town can be enjoyed along the Bass Hole Boardwalk, a serene 800-foot-long path that sits on top of a salt marsh.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023
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The other paths pass along the edge of a pristine salt marsh, a rarity along the shoreline.
—Peter Marteka, courant.com, 15 May 2018
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More than half of the main island is salt marsh, and the knee-high cordgrass and black needlerush seemingly stretched to the Earth’s curve.
—Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
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Use dip nets and seine nets to study the aquatic life living among the mangroves in these salt marsh areas.
—Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 19 June 2024
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Upland forest, salt marsh, a beach, and a lagoon make up the landscape.
—Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2021
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To experience the heart of the harbor, check into the Marsh Harbour Inn and wake up to views of sailboats and the salt marsh.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 20 July 2023
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There is a long boardwalk over a salt marsh for easy access to the beach, as well as lots of sand for a game of beach volleyball.
—Sucheta Rawal, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2021
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Nick’s Lagoon — a pond-shaped salt marsh the size of a football field that spills in and out of Hood Canal with the ebb of the tides — is far from pristine wilderness.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2022
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These snails have been shown to transform salt marsh grasslands to mudflats in as little as eight months.
—Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2018
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Clean-up crews skimmed the water’s surface and sprayed Corexit dispersants, but oil still coats the floor of the salt marshes.
—Hazlitt, 15 Sep. 2022
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The beach is a living thing that changes with the tide, waves, weather, and neighboring ecosystems such as salt marshes and dunes.
—Susan Moeller, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
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On one side of the camp is a beach and tidal mud flats—where a subset of bears digs for clams and other food—and behind it is a salt marsh meadow full of sedges.
—Kristen Pope, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
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Or try out an eco tour to view Charleston’s islands, salt marshes, marine, and wildlife.
—Alyssa Girdwain, Women's Health, 7 Apr. 2023
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For much of the stage, the route hugged the coastline alongside sparkling waters, pristine beaches and an abundance of salt marshes.
—Andrew Dampf, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2018
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Tailings from the mine, which operated for several years in the late 1960s, were disposed of in a pile next to a salt marsh and creek.
—Time, 17 July 2023
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Return in the morning and listen as a mated pair of whooping cranes standing in the salt marsh call to each other.
—Jody Schmal and Mizanur Rahman, Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
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Initially, the Navy tried to scare its wayward flamingo away from a salt marsh between two airstrips.
—Michael Adno, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
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On the other side, miles of shallow salt marshes extended to the horizon.
—Alexia Fernández Campbell, Essence, 4 July 2024
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Driessen Beach Park, on the island's southern end, is a good bet for filling your shell bucket and is reached via a long boardwalk over a salt marsh.
—Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2022
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The forests were retreating as the salt marsh migrated inland.
—Amy Green, miamiherald, 11 July 2018
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The park, with more than 200 acres, is a peaceful preserve with expanses of pine forests, salt marshes and rocky coastline.
—Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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On the southeastern coast of Georgia, the Forbes Five-Star resort is surrounded by five miles of private beach on the east, and the largest salt marsh on the eastern seaboard on the west.
—Lea Lane, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
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