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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

So he saw more perfectly the ditch that was on the one hand, and the quag that was on the other; also how narrow the way was which led between them both.

From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.

Again, behold, on the left hand, there was a very dangerous quag, into which, if even a good man falls, he can find no bottom for his foot to stand on.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

I suppose he must have wrung his off hind leg in fighting through the quag.

From The Splendid Spur by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir