The river was turbid and appeared difficult to pass.
Through it flowed a turbid stream, whose current was scarcely perceptible, while it seemed to stretch away to the left in an endless savanna, and to the right it appeared to deepen into an impassable morass.
Seen through the turbid fluctuating air, The stars obtuse emit a shivering ray; Or frequent seem to shoot, athwart the gloom, And long behind them trail the whitening blaze.
As he sits by the side of the stream, he asks whence comes its charm: Whilst gazing on the stream, whose new swollen waters Yet turbid flow, what strange imaginings Possess my soul and fill it with delight.
A promise of harvest,--and then, sheer down, the turbid water gnawing hungrily.
For hedonism, all the various forms of the spirit are reduced to one, which thus itself also loses its own distinctive character and becomes something turbid and mysterious, like "the shades in which all cows are black.
He may, however, afterwards recover himself in the many other parts of his thought, which consist of true propositions, not connected with the preceding errors, and lucid expressions may with him follow uponturbid expressions.
If the old superstitions still survive tenaciously, we must attribute this partly to empirical and poetical grammar, partly to the venerable antiquity of grammar itself, which has led the world to forget its illegitimate and turbid origin.
As they hurriedly consulted concerning how best to effect a rescue, they were amazed to see both boys clamber down from their perch, and drop into the turbid waters, one after the other.
The country-brewed porter is seldom well fermented, and seldom contains so large a quantity of spirit; it usually abounds in mucilage; hence it becomes turbid when mixed with alcohol.
From the mucilaginous impurities which malt vinegar always contains, it is apt, on exposure to air, to become turbid and ropy, and at last vapid.
The urine is scanty, turbid and loaded with urates.
The urine is scanty, turbid and very liable to rapid decomposition.
Where New York had stood nothing was visible but an expanse of turbid and rushing water.
Then she rushed on, riding with the turbidflood high above the buried roofs, finding no other obstruction in her way until she approached the Municipal Building, which was stoutly resisting the push of the waves.
Very warm air, clear, though supporting a very great quantity of moisture, will grow turbid and cloudy on the mixture of a colder air, as foggy turbidair will grow clear by warming.
The water was so turbid that we could not perceive objects an inch below the surface.
The age has produced wonderful prose styles, turbid with individualism, and violent with excess of rhetoric.
Very fantastic, very daring, crowded with strange metaphor and clouded by monstrous imagery, it has a sort of turbid splendour about it, and should the author some day add meaning to his music he may give us a true work of art.
Most lives, though their stream is loaded with sand and turbid with alluvial waste, drop a few golden grains of wisdom as they flow along.
Science has at length sifted the turbid light of her lenses, and blanched their delusive rainbows.
The experiment of universal suffrage must render the waters of political and social life more or less turbid even if they remain innoxious.
In this state they rush to the great cities for a plunge into their turbid life-baths, with a frantic thirst for every exciting pleasure, which makes them the willing and easy victims of all those who sell the Devil's wares on commission.
I will not compare myself, to the clear or the turbid current, but I will own that my heart sinks when I find all of a sudden I am in for a corner confluence, and I cease loving my neighbor as myself until I can get away from him.
Now we follow the Tiber, a swollen, hurrying, turbid river, in which the mellowing Western sky reflects itself.
At present the waters are turbid and swollen from recent rains; but if the present hot weather lasts, the water will run down very fast.
An immense influx of science, of thought to make the science living, of new terms to express the thought, takes place, and a band of literary workers appear of power enough to master and get into shape the turbid mass.
What a contrast to the limpid life of Corsica was that turbid frothy existence--already swirling towards its mighty plunge!
In fine, a nation weary of religious experiments and groping about for some firm anchorage in the midst of the turbid ebb-tide and its numerous backwaters.
He was a born leader, and he flung himself into the raw, turbid life of the mining town with a readiness that had not a little to do with his subsequent success.
Without misunderstanding the perfect respect for her which he felt, she knew the turbid banked emotions which this dammed.
Tag-rag attended him with extreme obsequiousness to the door; and on his departure, walked back rapidly to his own room, and sat down for nearly half an hour in a sort of turbid but delicious revery.
Pent in by frowning mountains high, It stretches silent as the tomb, Turbid and thick its waters lie, No eye can pierce their yellow gloom.
In the shallow, turbid water Lay the saving reef below.
Ever and anon, too, he peeped into the water, as if expecting to see the whole Fountain of Trevi turbid with the results of his ablution.
It might have been imagined that Donatello's unsophisticated heart would be more readily attracted to a feminine nature of clear simplicity like his own, than to one already turbid with grief or wrong, as Miriam's seemed to be.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turbid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
