quag
Example Sentences
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But a combination of mishaps and bungled central planning finally plunged the country into a hopeless economic quag mire that enraged the workers.
From Time Magazine Archive
It rolled, meanwhile, a blood-shot eye, insane with terror; and as it sprawled wallowing in the quag, clouds of stinging insects rose and buzzed about it in the air.
From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
If you go straight a-head, a bottomless quag or a precipice will bring you up all standing as sure as fate.
From Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
And oh, it was a fell, fell place, With dead black trees all round, And a quag that boiled and writhed and coiled Where had been solid ground.
From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by John Oxenham
At the Mermaid Inn Men disagreed in friendship and in truth; But he agreed with all men, and his life Was one soft quag of falsehood.
From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes
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