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
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
An' after we'd a-had our squaïls, Poor Tom, a-jumpèn in a bag, Wer pinch'd by all the maïden's naïls, An' rolled down into hwome-groun' quag.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
It rolled, meanwhile, a blood-shot eye, insane with terror; and as it sprawled wallowing in the quag, clouds of stinging insects rose and buzzed about it in the air.
From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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