TURBID in a Sentence

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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.

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 Meanings and Examples of TURBID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
turbid
 a.  muddy; having sediment disturbed; heavy, dark, or dense, as smoke or fog
Classic Sentence:
1  I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. Sunset.
2  It was now early spring, and the river was swollen and turbulent; great cakes of floating ice were swinging heavily to and fro in the turbid waters.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  The turbid water, swollen by the heavy rain, was rushing rapidly on below; and all other sounds were lost in the noise of its plashing and eddying against the green and slimy piles.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  Crowned with heavy lotus-blossoms you had sat on the prow of Adrian's barge, gazing across the green turbid Nile.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
Example Sentence:
1  The water was turbid after the children had waded through it.
2  Several different species of fish inhabit these turbid shallow waters.