When the Cabrillo party arrived, the crowd surged, pushing Mayor Sherman and other officials into the tidal mud.

For a long time he just sat there, head in hand, his brain washed as bare as tidal mud.

The six boats intended for escape are stuck in tidal mud and it is debated what they should do.

Boys watch the cattle night and day, for a whole herd can sink in the tidal mud and be lost.

The air was murky with soot, vibrant with the clang of machinery and bitter with a blended stench of hot metal, anticorrosive paint and tidal mud.

Many of the knives were discovered by the Thames Mudlarks in the tidal mud of the River Thames in London.

Much of the bay is exposed at low tide, with about 100 km of tidal mud and sand flats.

Wading birds stilted over tidal mud.

The whiff of tidal mud and seaweed gave me an idea.

The ebbing tide exposed a sandbank of black tidal mud.