How to Use turbid in a Sentence

turbid

adjective
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  • The humans cannot see the fish through the turbid water.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2012
  • Sharks thrash about in the turbid water between us and the man.
    — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
  • However, remora’s suction disks have more than enough grip to withstand even the most turbid of placements on the whale’s body.
    — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Lower Yakima is open for hatchery spring chinook and high and turbid.
    — Mark Yuasa, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
  • Last week, a team of divers and photographers completed 10 days of work in the turbid waters of Pearl Harbor.
    — National Geographic, 27 Dec. 2016
  • Last week, a team of divers and photographers completed 10 days of work in the turbid waters of Pearl Harbor.
    — National Geographic, 27 Dec. 2016
  • The semi-turbid waters of Caney Creek gurgled down from a nearby hillside.
    — Rick Childress, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The lack of power plus turbid water at filtration plants cut off water service for more two-thirds of the island.
    — Kaitlyn Koterbski, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Streams coming straight from glaciers are cold, nutrient-poor, turbid and fast-flowing.
    — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • In the Indian River Lagoon, the turbid brown waters are much less hospitable.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Scientists are now worried that the turbid water will remain and could damage plants and animals along the lake’s fringes.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Trap nets are always most effective on lakes with turbid water that distorts the fish’s vision.
    — Dallas News, 8 May 2021
  • That’s not an issue on overcast days or in turbid water, so slow down your retrieve in darker conditions.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 June 2020
  • Flows continue just enough above typical levels to ease boat access to those hard to get into places, but have become more turbid again.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 27 July 2017
  • At the time, however, everything was roiling and turbid.
    — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
  • It could also potentially be used to see through turbid water.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 7 Apr. 2018
  • The city says larger Ashokan releases over the past decade have all been to regulate reservoir levels, though critics say the water released after storms can be turbid just the same.
    — Michael Hill, ajc, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Much of it reads like a nightmare, a dense and turbid vision of African-American history, a tortured questioning of how to survive as a black man in a white world, in Ailey’s day and now.
    — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Many of the highland reservoirs here are clear and rocky, providing a nice change of setting from turbid Mississippi River tributaries.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 15 June 2023
  • This experiment also helped the scientists to verify their models of the movement of the resulting turbid plumes.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2021
  • On their monitors in the control room, Matsuzaki’s team, connected to the Sunfish’s controls via the electric cable, could see only a narrow swath cut through the turbid water by the Sunfish’s lights.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2018
  • White crappies can also tolerate warm, turbid waters, silted streams, and slow-flowing rivers.
    — Popular Science, 1 June 2020
  • The Columbia has reached flood stage and continues to run high and turbid with very colder than normal water temperatures, and could be one of the main factors why spring chinook migration has been stalled.
    — Mark Yuasa, The Seattle Times, 12 May 2017
  • The water is also more turbid, which prevents growing phytoplankton from receiving enough light.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2010
  • The satellite imagery also reveals darker material flowing out into the Gulf from land — turbid discharges from flooding caused by storm surges and overflowing rivers.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Helicopters, boats and high-water vehicles swarmed around inundated Houston neighborhoods, pulling people from their homes or from the turbid water, which was high enough in some places to gush into second floors.
    — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Smith somehow manages to negotiate these oily, turbid waters with amazing grace, sure-footedness, and acuity.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • About 5,300 acres of vegetation, made up mostly of cattails, also got uprooted and tossed into the mix, eliminating a protective boundary that helps keep turbid water from the lake’s interior away from its cleaner fringes.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The pair of water releases came shortly after the city issued its environmental impact statement projecting that releases of extremely turbid water from the channel would rarely happen.
    — Michael Hill, ajc, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Instead, its turbid waters are infested with nonnative invasive plants and fish, particularly carp that had been deliberately introduced in 1883.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2021

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