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

And ever again to the Potter's Field, The Souls in torment came, But the black quag boiled and writhed and coiled, And would have none of them.

From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by Oxenham, John

The mud floor became a quag: I seized a spade and shovelled it clean, mud and slime and worse filth together.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I've some hundreds of quarters of it on hand; and if your renovating process will make it wholesome, why, you can see what a quag 'twould get me out of.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

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

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn