Sample Sentences forturbid (editor-reviewed)
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They say the turbid water is safe to drink, but I don't trust it.turbid = cloudy with sediment
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She was unsettled by a flow of turbid thoughts and feelings.turbid = confused, muddled, or unclear
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When he had done, instead of feeling better, calmer, more enlightened by his discourse, I experienced an inexpressible sadness; for it seemed to me — I know not whether equally so to others — that the eloquence to which I had been listening had sprung from a depth where lay turbid dregs of disappointment — where moved troubling impulses of insatiate yearnings and disquieting aspirations. (source)turbid = unclear
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The turbid water lay still; there was not even the ghost of a breeze.† (source)
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The Devon's course was determined by some familiar hills a little inland; it rose among highland farms and forests which we knew, passed at the end of its course through the school grounds, and then threw itself with little spectacle over a small waterfall beside the diving dam, and into the turbid Naguamsett.† (source)
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But the extraordinary satisfactions of the steamy bathroom seemed to have evaporated as she shut the door, and the washing of her clothes, watching the turbid water flow from them down the drain of the bathtub, was disappointingly utilitarian.† (source)
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The turbid river was encumbered with masses of charred wood, with black hulks of vessels, and skeletons of fallen bridges....† (source)
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The rabbit fetched up against the grating, drifted a little way along it, found the bottom and crawled out of the turbid water.† (source)
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We lingered for another hour, and again, as at Coney Island, Leslie gently but irresistibly seized the conversational helm, steering us into turbid backwaters and eerie lagoons where I, at least, had never ventured with a female.† (source)
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I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail.† (source)
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Crowned with heavy lotus-blossoms you had sat on the prow of Adrian's barge, gazing across the green turbid Nile.† (source)
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Mr. Stryver shouldered his way through the law, like some great engine forcing itself through turbid water, and dragged his useful friend in his wake, like a boat towed astern.† (source)
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There was no opening except the door, always open, and the air without had the turbid yellow light of sand-storms.† (source)
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betwixt me and you, the turbid waters roll.† (source)
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Those were slow, silent, often turbid; flowing over beds of mud into which the incautious wader might sink and vanish unawares.† (source)
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Simultaneously Amory classed him with the crowd, and he seemed no longer Sloane of the debonair humor and the happy personality, but only one of the evil faces that whirled along the turbid stream.† (source)
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