mire

Example Sentences

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Here are three tips to help you navigate the undead monetary mire.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Earlier on Sunday, a late Alexis Claude Maurice penalty took Augsburg to a 1-0 home win over rock-bottom Heidenheim, lifting the hosts six points clear of the relegation mire.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

But after reading “The Dream Factory,” you might like him better when he still had his feet in the Shoreditch mire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Lesser biographies pick sides; Mangold trusts us to find our own path through the mire, while noting the particular risk of being a wunderkind hoisted up into a deity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2025

The track to the Foresters' farm was bare mud, trodden into mire by the feet of horses and cows and sheep and dogs.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman