mire

Example Sentences

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After routing their bitter rivals 4-1 in November, they made the short trip up the Seven Sisters Road to inflict another humiliating defeat that pushed Tottenham deeper into the relegation mire.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

But after reading “The Dream Factory,” you might like him better when he still had his feet in the Shoreditch mire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

When Root played a limp shot to chop on in the same over, England were in the mire.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

The answer, according to the management team tasked with extricating the company from its financial mire, is that it was forced on the company by self-interested owners.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2024

He was learning the tricky balance of spadework—deep enough to make a clean cut, but not so deep as to bury the spade head in the mire.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park