NOUN
- a tract of low muddy land near an estuary; covered at high tide and exposed at low tide
How To Use mud flat In A Sentence
- A rocky shore almost certainly provides a clearer echo than a sandy slope or mud flat.
- The species is well known for its ability to invade exposed mud flats after a drawdown.
- The salt marshes and mud flats attract large numbers of waterfowl.
- The scenery had taken a dramatic turn soon after we crossed the Roman causeway, leaving behind the sybaritic hotels, four-handed massages, whitewashed mosques and mud flats of the tourist island.
- If the tide was out, I could smell the tang of seaweed and the musky odor of the mud flats, and hear the clicking sounds as the barnacles and mussels closed up their shells.
- Several dead beluga whales washed ashore recently in Alaska after dozens were temporarily stranded on mud flats during low tide.
- The mud flats attract large numbers of birds.
- In the mud flats of the Bay of Fundy, you'll see large roosts of shorebirds - plovers, yellowlegs, godwits, curlews, and phalaropes - at high tide.
- From there, you can walk along the island's beach below the headquarters for a quarter to half a mile to extensive mud flats where colorful American oystercatchers, willets, black-bellied plovers and red knots are usually numerous.
- The salt marshes and mud flats attract large numbers of waterfowl.