quagmire

Example Sentences

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With a paucity of working capital and bank lending rates now exceeding 60%, both foreign and domestic firms are stuck in a quagmire.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

USC has found itself in a financial quagmire at an unsettled moment.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

Meanwhile, the war in Iraq came to seem closer to a quagmire than he had predicted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

But this doesn't have to become an endless quagmire.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2025

On the race’s eve, a downpour rendered the track at Narragansett a quagmire.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand