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How to Use muck in a Sentence

muck

1 of 2 noun
  • Clean that muck off your shoes.
  • He’s done with the muck and the posers, done with Love.
    Quinci Legardye, Marie Claire, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Be prepared to work through the muck of the challenges.
    Sheila Dedenbach, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2022
  • They're built for trudging around in the muck and snow.
    Brad Lanphear, Men's Health, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The main foes during the massive cleanup: muck, mud and sewage.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Goldie Hawn isn't afraid to get into the muck of things for a good cause!
    Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 5 May 2022
  • Don’t let yourself get caught up in the muck and gunk of the present moment.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 31 July 2022
  • And so our job is to get out of that muck and to get back on our feet, making the case.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • At 27 years old, Creevy might be more mature but is still best in the muck.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
  • In the autumn light, the contrast between the furrows of muck and the lime oceans of cane glow.
    Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The future is always cloudy, and new variants add a lot of muck to the mix.
    Jan Dutkiewicz, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Mud streaked with mining muck clotted the soles of our boots.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • No, make that primeval — the sound of a band emerging out of the tar pits, busting from the muck, reborn.
    Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Even their four-wheel-drive trucks were coated in muck.
    Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
  • All that kept Brown out of the muck Wednesday was a wisp of air that paragliders call bug farts.
    Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2021
  • His boat pressed on through the shallows and toward the muck and mud of the expanding shore.
    Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2021
  • Newcastle, after years in the muck, is back among the top flight’s elite.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Then the movie puts you inside and gets you down into the muck of killing his childhood.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 11 July 2022
  • The calf harness laces and snaps around your leg so the boot moves with you, and Lacrosse’s Air-Grip outsole sheds muck.
    Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The dolls appear, one by one, coated in sand and muck and seaweed.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • There were also reports of deer getting stuck in the muck.
    The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Yet Desus and Mero should always be wallowing in the muck.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 July 2021
  • Both teams can’t afford a loss as the Browns’ season is on life support at 3-6 and the Bills are in the wild card muck at 6-3.
    Dan Labbe, cleveland, 20 Nov. 2022
  • In the muck, Carla Neal found her great-grandfather’s fishing pole that used to hang over the door of the shop.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Their boots left footprints in the half-inch layer of muck covering the floor.
    Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
  • Large floating algal mats appeared on top of the water and the floor went from sand to muck.
    Keely Larson, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Their feet began to slip in the mud, their shoes became weighted with muck and stuck in the ground with each step.
    David Denby, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Along with the muck emerged something strange: the remains of a dark, shiny animal with short legs.
    Diane Selkirk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2022
  • Pigs played in the muck; sows rested in shaded bedding.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • And everything is covered in thick, gray muck, much of which has dried and chipped and turned dusty.
    Erica Lee, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
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muck

2 of 2 verb
  • And any chef will tell you to treat it simply and not muck it up.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2018
  • At 6 months, nurture just hasn’t had time to muck things up.
    Charlie Wood, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2017
  • The students muck the horses' stalls, feed goats and plant seeds for a garden.
    Vinny Vella, courant.com, 18 May 2017
  • Salpointe will try to muck it up and make teams work for baskets.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The Supreme Court does not muck around with Tax Court decisions very much.
    Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • Even a Utopian might start to feel the future is out of our hands, that the tank has already turned to muck.
    Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
  • And yet, the automobile didn't need hay or to have its stall mucked.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Lauko is cut from the same cloth as many fourth-line grinders, with his propensity to muck things up down low.
    Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • That the United States has been mucking around in Laos and Cambodia for a long, long time.
    Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2018
  • And perhaps the best way to tackle the hype cycle is to muck it all up and embrace the confusion.
    Kevin Lozano, GQ, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Getty Dads: always mucking things up so that moms have to swoop in and fix them.
    Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 26 June 2017
  • More than anything, Sacks wanted to muck around in the wilderness of the mind that so few have yet to fully explore.
    Cody Delistraty, The Cut, 12 Oct. 2017
  • At least part of the movie was filmed in Boston, which must have been a nice break for Zendaya after mucking about in the sand for Dune.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 20 June 2023
  • And the smallest unforeseen detail can muck something up at the last minute.
    Loren Grush, The Verge, 27 Dec. 2018
  • Deeper lugs are better at biting into the ground but could hang on to mud and muck if the lugs aren’t spaced far enough apart.
    Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2021
  • That, in its own turn, meant mucking about with suction cups and other tools that could hold up against the water.
    Jacob Brogan, Smithsonian, 28 July 2017
  • That, in its own turn, meant mucking about with suction cups and other tools that could hold up against the water.
    Jacob Brogan, Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
  • The two sets of parents can't help but muck things up, especially when the young couple have twins.
    Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Then humans came and mucked it up by making poor choices.
    Daniel Burke, CNN, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Then suddenly this force walks in, and Cassian Andor tries to muck the whole thing up.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2022
  • There is just one tendril of brain tissue that can be seen from outside the body without any mucking about of this sort.
    The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • There seemed to be concern that tacking on amendments would muck that agreement up, Grant said.
    Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Over here, Alex Killorn, whose mucking in the corner freed the puck and initiated the sequence that led to the tying goal.
    Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 7 May 2016
  • While the personnel has changed, the identity hasn’t, as the Grizz are still mucking things up and slowing their opponents down to a halt.
    Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • He's mucked around in our elections and European elections.
    CBS News, 23 Oct. 2019
  • This to me has always been the true promise of the cloud, not having to muck with virtual machines or installing libraries.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2018
  • But the soil is still too squishy to risk mucking around and begin direct sowing or even planting vegetable starts.
    Dana Coffield, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
  • Yet the Ohio House of Representatives still managed on Thursday to muck this up.
    Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 25 June 2021
  • Keep dirty shoes from mucking things up by placing them in shoes bags or shower caps, which are available at most hotels.
    Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 16 Nov. 2015
  • But here’s the thing: Blizzard really has mucked things up at a very inopportune time.
    Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 19 July 2023

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