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

At the Mermaid Inn Men disagreed in friendship and in truth; But he agreed with all men, and his life Was one soft quag of falsehood.

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred

Why did ye drēve en into theäse here quag?

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William

I tell you frankly that less than twenty thousand pounds will not extricate me from the quag of ruin in which I am entangled—lost!'

From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

You must get out of this quag somehow.

From The Nebuly Coat by Falkner, John Meade