QUAGMIRE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for QUAGMIRE, such as:
1. In the rainy season the roads become a quagmire.
2. Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal.
3. At the end of the match, the pitch was a real quagmire.
4. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached the other side of the quagmire.
5. The heavy lumpish phrase sank slowly out of hearing like a stone through a quagmire.
2. Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal.
3. At the end of the match, the pitch was a real quagmire.
4. Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached the other side of the quagmire.
5. The heavy lumpish phrase sank slowly out of hearing like a stone through a quagmire.
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Meanings and Examples of QUAGMIRE
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quagmire
n. soft wet boggy land; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself
Classic Sentence:
1 Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached the other side of the quagmire.
2 Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal.
3 Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
4 The heavy lumpish phrase sank slowly out of hearing like a stone through a quagmire.
5 There are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires which special science calls moutardes.
Example Sentence:
1 In the rainy season the roads become a quagmire.
2 At the end of the match, the pitch was a real quagmire.
3 Up to her knees in mud, Myra wondered how on earth she was going to extricate herself from this quagmire.