quag
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
I suppose he must have wrung his off hind leg in fighting through the quag.
From The Splendid Spur by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 Philip P. Wells
But the carriage stuck fast in a quag, and so they cut the traces and left it there, where, two days after, Sir John Berkeley's dragoons found and pulled it out.
From The Splendid Spur by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 George S. Boutwell
Vocabulary lists containing quag
