murk , also: mirk
murkiness

Something had moved in the murk, just to my right.

I looked hard, but could make out nothing in the murk.

Any sound it made was lost in the green murk.

Nor, though her eyes were open, could she see anything in the murk.

Not much could be seen in the rain and murk.

Richard thought he saw something move in the murk below.

Then he reached down into the murk, and just as quickly pulled his hand back.

Maybe starting from the beginning, when I'd first felt the feeling, would help to clear away the murk.

Long ago he had lost any idea of keeping a straight course through the murk.

"I do not like to think of our men fighting in that murk."

Maybe, after all, they should hang there in the murk for a while longer.

The murk along the side of the warehouse took him in.

For these fish, researchers said, the problem appeared to be the murk.

The first light of dawn was beginning to eat at the murk.

Even if they were, you wouldn't be able to see them through the brown murk.

Tom started back through the murk of the ocean bottom.

He dropped silently, lost into the murk of the night.

For all his determination, he could not face the murk of those streets.

It was like coming out of a dire murk into clear, fresh water.

There were indeed figures moving in the murk of the store.

We will fill their eyes with murk and be invisible to them.

Two black eyes glittered at him through the green murk.

But there is still plenty of murk about the outcome.

She peered toward the distant murk but could see no one.

From the window, Murk noted two men who looked like bankers, and were.

But they also reflected the murkiness of the current economic picture.

Let us hope that later chapters clear away some of the murkiness.

There is no such aesthetic murkiness in the new production.

He tried to see but the murkiness of the water restricted his vision.

She saw the flash of his eyes in the gray murkiness.

The murkiness is apparent on both sides of the conflict.

The piano music stopped and a man approached through the murkiness.

It seemed to hold within itself a dark murkiness.

That's not to say all the murkiness is gone.

The industry officials showed some frustrations about the murkiness of federal advice.

Human society is completely dependent on a certain murkiness in discourse.

It was clear golden sand now, without the murkiness of mud.

He has a point, and not just about the murkiness of the surge's purported success.

Then the murkiness washed downstream, and the pool's water was clear again.

Another reason for the murkiness is that the revolution's trigger never became a national hero.

The murkiness of the copy gave Wright a sinister look.

Paul saw only a place to hide, a white murkiness that he could draw over him like a blanket.

Inconsistencies in the other witnesses' testimony only added to the murkiness.

The ruling leaves behind a lot of legal murkiness.

All have her particular combination of formal purity and psychological murkiness.

There is even greater murkiness on the subject of the risks of the test.

The murkiness may not be cleared up anytime soon.

The indoor murkiness at the Garden lasted 41 home games and one playoff game.

One problem is the murkiness of these reports.

And the dispute illustrates the murkiness over just who is in charge of the rebuilding effort.