Sample Sentences for
quagmire
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    The hikers got stuck walking through a quagmire after heavy rain turned the trail into deep mud.
    quagmire = soft, muddy area
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    She knew his favorite lagoons and paths through difficult quagmires; always following him at a safe distance.  (source)
    quagmires = soft wet areas of low-lying land that sink underfoot
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    It would've been a nice view, with the river and the trees and hills and all, except for the quagmire of horse muck.  (source)
    quagmire = a soft wet area that sinks underfoot
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    Finally he chose three which looked particularly good to him—'quagmire,†  (source)
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    It's no longer a flawless cut-paper profile, her face is sinking in upon itself, and I think of those towns built on underground rivers, where houses and whole streets disappear overnight, into sudden quagmires, or coal towns collapsing into the mines beneath them.†  (source)
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    It is not alone that forlornly lovely, nostalgic landscape which creates the frequent likeness—the quagmiry but haunting monochrome of the Narew River swampland, for example, with its look and feel of a murky savanna village of Galicia, where by only the smallest eyewink of the imagination one might see whisked to a lonesome crossroads hamlet in Arkansas these ramshackle, weather-bleached little houses, crookedly carpentered, set upon shrubless plots of clay where scrawny chickens fuss and peck—but in the spirit of the nation, her indwellingly ravaged and melancholy heart, tormented into its shape like that of the Old South out of adversity, penury and defeat.†  (source)
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    Our home remained trapped in the quagmire of cycles of vengeance.†  (source)
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    The marshes were bewildering and treacherous, and there was no permanent trail even for Rangers to find through their shifting quagmires.†  (source)
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    JFK will be leaping from one political quagmire and into another.†  (source)
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    Before we cast away the solid assurances of national armaments for self-preservation we must be certain that our temple is built, not upon shifting sands or quagmires, but upon the rock.†  (source)
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    Ron did very well until he reached the hinkypunk, which successfully confused him into sinking waist-high into the quagmire.†  (source)
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    From the end of it a small wand planted here and there showed where the path zigzagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger.†  (source)
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    Mostly I saw Rose as my savior, showing me the way through this quagmire we had gotten into, but sometimes she affected me that barking dog way, never resting for all the alarms there were to sound.†  (source)
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