quagmire
Example Sentences
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That leaves the Southwest in a quagmire with uncertain repercussions while the river’s depleted reservoirs continue to decline.
From Los Angeles Times
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
Any such ambition raises the potential for quick actions to become quagmires.
From Los Angeles Times
USC has found itself in a financial quagmire at an unsettled moment.
From Los Angeles Times
Meanwhile, the war in Iraq came to seem closer to a quagmire than he had predicted.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
