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

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.

This I did, and the deer ran for the shore, Burr pushed his boat to the quag, took the jack, and followed the track.

From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by Boutwell, George S.

You must get out of this quag somehow.

From The Nebuly Coat by Falkner, John Meade

An' after we'd a-had our squaïls, Poor Tom, a-jumpèn in a bag, Wer pinch'd by all the maïden's naïls, An' rolled down into hwome-groun' quag.

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William