How to Use swampland in a Sentence

swampland

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  • In the next few months, the great frozen swamplands of Alaska will soften and green.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The gator likely came up through nearby swampland and travelled across the base golf course to reach the flight line.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2019
  • This was all swampland once, the soil so sludgy and unstable the Swedes who tried to settle here in the 1600s gave up and moved north.
    — Adam Erace, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2021
  • The city sat on 650 acres of swampland where the Expo Center, the raceway and golf course are today.
    — The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 30 May 2017
  • And both seem to be taking place deep in the holler, somewhere near a swampland and in outer space all at once.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Clumps of matchsticks are groves of Moriche palms, thriving in swampland.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2012
  • But as the city expanded westward in the 1920s, the lima bean fields were plowed under and the swampland drained to make room for homes.
    — Scott Garner, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The snake is an invasive species and has damaged the state’s swampland ecosystem.
    — Fox News, 28 Sep. 2019
  • But 12 miles west in Doral, there wasn't much of anything - other than the golf resort and miles of swampland.
    — miamiherald, 17 May 2016
  • Ohio residents, by and large, did not appear to miss their state’s swampland.
    — Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • Once upon a time, the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain consisted of so much unused swampland.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 2 Jan. 2018
  • The students train for 62 days with minimal food and little sleep, and learn how to operate in the woods, mountains and swamplands.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Mastodon bones were first discovered in swampland in Phillips Park in January 1934.
    — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Beneath its artificial shine lies dark, primeval swampland; a gulf divides the seen from the unseen.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • This forged a unique culture in the area, which was largely swampland and was drained at the turn of the 20th century, with mostly working-class residents settling the land.
    — John L. Dorman, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • After a night fending off swarms of mosquitoes in swamplands near the river, [Mauricio Posadas] and his son were caught by the Border Patrol [last month].
    — Rachel Van Dongen, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
  • To this day, no paved roads traverse the swampland separating it from mainland Russia.
    — Eva Sohlman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Like much of the state’s serpentine swampland, Alexander Springs Wilderness is best explored by paddling.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 26 July 2021
  • The Trumps weren’t selling useless swampland in Florida.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2017
  • While Botswana’s northern swampland was ridden with disease-carrying tsetse flies and malaria, Mr. Selby and his clients traversed the bush in style.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Drainage tiles allowed removal of water from the surface of the soil, and made wonderfully rich swampland available for farming.
    — Gwen Pearson, WIRED, 4 Aug. 2014
  • In the film, familiar species flourish in lush swampland but eventually succumb to a more hellish climate.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2019
  • Forests, swamplands, deserts, grasslands, and coastal salt marshes are some of the habitats that play an important part in providing shelter, food sources, and breeding grounds for many species.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • Desimone bought and drained swamplands along the Duwamish to create fertile farmland that in time gave way to Boeing’s industrial needs.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 29 Apr. 2017
  • The graveyard in the neighboring village of Kwigillingok, or Kwig, is also sinking into swampland.
    — Author: Teresa Cotsirilos, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The Amtrak’s passenger cars were lit up, silhouetting the train against the swampland as all passengers remained aboard.
    — John Pacenti, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Then there's the state's strange geography: swampland infested with alligators and pythons, the most sinkholes in the nation.
    — Author: Logan Hill, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2019
  • Archival footage and stellar images of the band practicing endlessly in a rundown cabin in a swamplands filled with gators and mosquitos underscore what the band was all about.
    — John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The focal point of the neighborhood is Tompkins Square Park, developed into a landscaped oasis more than 150 years ago on former swampland.
    — Matthew Haag, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The refuge was constructed by a segregated Black Civilian Conservation Corps crew, which shaped the park from swampland.
    — Larry Bleiberg, USA TODAY, 16 July 2021

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