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How to use the word de-muck in a Sentence?

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When I was out in this community cemetery, I was up to my knees in muck, so finding the purchase for a crane or some other kind of [ machinery ] to get a hold and be able to lift these these heavy weights is going to be a challenge.

Ryan Seidemann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The uncertainty is more anxiety-inducing than anything but I think once people understand what they need to do, you just have to get on with it and adapt and do what you can to muck through.

Tom Kennedy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

( Putin) tried again to muck around in our elections this last month, and we are seeing a continued effort along those lines.

Defense Secretary James Mattis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When people are in their homes in the muck stage, they really need to be protected.

Winifred Hamilton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You can have an El Niño climate change impact on a coral reef ; let's say it kills 40 % of the coral, but if you have swimmers there with sunscreen pollution, you're not going to have new generations coming in. So you're going to see the slow decline of the coral reefs in the area. And then you get an undersea, desolate landscape of just muck and mud and sand.

Craig Downs

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We're looking at all these things, which would be for next year obviously, we've made a big enough muck-up to do that for this year so we must not do that again.

Bernie Ecclestone

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The only way to get out of this muck, out of this quicksand the market's in, is to have a few good days in a row.

Barry Schwartz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They looked at the stories, and they said, ‘We want to make something for the fans,’ they decided they didn’t want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing. …They weren’t that keen to have me involved anyway — but if I get in there, I’m just going to cause trouble, because they’re not going to do what I want them to do. And I don’t have the control to do that anymore, and all I would do is muck everything up.

George Lucas

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They decided they didn’t want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing. …They weren’t that keen to have me involved anyway — but if I get in there, I’m just going to cause trouble, because they’re not going to do what I want them to do. And I don’t have the control to do that anymore, and all I would do is muck everything up.

George Lucas

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

You don't need to be a grand muckety-muck and fly. It's just ridiculous.

Bill Mitchell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Roland Barthes

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.

Aldous Huxley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Sir Francis Bacon

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.

Douglas Noel Adams

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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