1.   As he stumbled around the far side of the breakwater, the hard sand was replaced by thick mud.

2.   Hundreds of fans at the Reading Rock Festival were stuck with their cars and vans in thick mud last night.

3.   She landed flat on her face in thick mud.

4.   Some are very inaccessible and he has to wade through thick mud to get at them.

5.   We ploughed through the thick mud.

6.   They had to battle through thick mud to reach construction workers.

7.   A thick puttylike mud was everywhere, from the riverbank to under the stilt houses and beyond, to the marshlands.

8.   According to popular history, chewing gum magnate William Wrigley discovered the thick mud of the island when his touring Jeep got stuck in it.

9.   But facing thick fog, steady rain and thick mud, not even their sturdy military Humvees could get through to this devastated region.

10.   Footprints marking intricate choreography, bleached into squares of parquet flooring, eventually give way to boot prints in what looks like thick mud.