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Example sentences for "mudflats"

Lexicographically close words:
muddled; muddles; muddling; muddy; mudfish; mudhole; mudhook; mudiria; muds; mudstones
  1. As there were mangrove mudflats in the neighbourhood of our camp the mosquitoes were particularly troublesome; we hurriedly therefore made preparations for leaving it.

  2. Its steaming mudflats were littered with rotting yellowed bones and supported the first life they had seen, an unpleasant scurrying of small multipedal crustaceans and water-lizards.

  3. Chipped and weathered as the bones littering the mudflats were, their grisly shapings were unmistakable.

  4. They went back to the ship by slow stages, pausing now and then while Gibson gathered a small packet of bone fragments from the mudflats and underbrush.

  5. Under the merciless glare of light, the valley was as he had first seen it--a nauseous charnel place of bogs and brambles and mudflats littered with yellowed bones.

  6. The pools that lay in the center of the wide, sun-baked mudflats were the mecca of a host of things.

  7. But there came the day of complete annihilation when there was not water enough left to support the survivors; they slid feebly through the mire, threw themselves clear of it onto the sun-baked mudflats surrounding it, and then died.

  8. It frequents the Brisbane river and the mudflats of the harbour, and is harpooned by the natives, who know it under the name of Yung-un.

  9. At low-water the women usually dispersed in search of shellfish on the mudflats and among the mangroves, and the men occasionally went out to fish, either with the spear, or the hook and line.

  10. With the aid of the spyglass, we could occasionally make out a few, chiefly women, collecting shellfish on the mudflats of the mainland, and their fires were daily seen in every direction.

  11. This was one of the commonest shorebirds on the beaches and mudflats west of Sisal.

  12. A pair was on the mudflats among mangroves at Sisal, of which the male was taken on August 7.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mudflats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.