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

You must get out of this quag somehow.

From The Nebuly Coat by Falkner, John Meade

Bene, satis, male,—   Where was I with my trope 'bout one in a quag?

From A Nonsense Anthology by Wells, Carolyn

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

Into that quag king David once did fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered, had not HE that is able plucked him out.

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