How to Use mire in a Sentence

mire

1 of 2 noun

• The troops marched onward through the muck and the mire.
• Cranes had to be brought in to lift trucks full of gear out of the mire.
  — Chris Johns, SPIN, 8 Aug. 2022
• Here and Now, though, dives head-first into the mire of 2018.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2018
• Much of the first half confines the action to the murk, muck, mire and thrashings in the crawlspace.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2019
• In essence, the art of connecting has been lost in the mire of the new normal.
  — Ira Bedzow, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• Let their dusky forms, rise up, out the mires of James Island, and give the answer.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 12 Feb. 2018
• Most people who have been in the mire of heartbreak will have felt pain in their body somewhere.
  — Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com, 15 Dec. 2021
• In scenes of mist, mire and mayhem, countless lives are lost for the gain of a few hundred yards or a single hill.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Even as Andrew fell deeper into the mire, he was called on more frequently to be the queen’s plus-one.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2022
• Steady rain penetrated the jungle canopy, and along the mire, open shells of kukui nuts were half filled with water.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• But by the 1960s, native Australian dung beetles were struggling in the mire of sticky, non-native cow pats.
  — Richard Jones, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2018
• Napoli looked very shaky until taking the lead, and Meret was called upon a number of times to dig his team out of the mire when a goal seemed inevitable.
  — SI.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• Vasyugan mire is found in the western plains of this large Russian region known for its extreme cold.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2021
• However, in the mire of a match that struggled to capture the eyes of its audience, emerged a beacon of light, Coutinho.
  — SI.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• Instead, the fractured and fractious streaming landscape is pulling HBO into the mire.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• But the humanity that Gidla gives to her subjects – many of whom are her own flesh and blood – keeps the book from sinking into a mire.
  — James Norton, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 July 2017
• He got bogged down in the legal and regulatory mire into which the bank was sinking.
  — Roger Lowenstein, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• Armored trucks rumble over squishy mud, combat boots trample through rain and mire.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2019
• Moshfegh, in her fourth novel, thrives in the mire, a happy little worm sliding dirt down her gullet.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
• You might be inspired by the first daffodil peeking out of the ground or wallow in a mire of unrealistic ideas.
  — Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2017
• Placing their feet in a flower bed (which, being December, was nothing but a mire of mud).
  — Greg Dobbs, The Denver Post, 12 Feb. 2017
• On the one hand, investors hoped for someone already deep in the mire of the Max crisis familiar with the ins-and-outs of a very complex situation.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartz at Work, 13 Jan. 2020
• That sense of levity is always welcome when digging into the muck and mire of Beckett.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2017
• The Sergeant' pulled Lazio out of the mire on countless occasions, dragging his over-achieving side kicking and screaming up the Serie A table.
  — SI.com, 25 July 2019
• Liang Sicheng battled on through the mire, despite his near-lame leg, the result of a youthful motorbike accident.
  — Stefen Chow, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
• What is clear, though, is that anyone stepping into the mayoral shoes will be tasked with steering the city through a mire of critical issues.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Oct. 2020
• United have made their worst ever start to a Premier League season (yes, worse even than under David Moyes), as the club slips into a mire of sub-mediocrity.
  — SI.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• Crumbled pistachios climb over the mire like neon green moss, making a bed for fuzzy sprouts of spearmint and peppermint and ripe blueberries as fat and glossy as sapphires.
  — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2021
• Crumbled pistachios climb over the mire like neon green moss, making a bed for fuzzy sprouts of spearmint and peppermint, and ripe blueberries as fat and glossy as sapphires.
  — Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2023
• Wheels and treads spin and spin, only digging military vehicles deeper into the mire.
  — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 1 May 2023

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mire

2 of 2 verb

• The search for a vaccine to RSV began in the 1960s, but has been mired by tragedy.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 May 2023
• Two weeks ago, he was mired in the worst slump of his career.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2023
• Japan’s economy is mired in a years-long malaise and the yen has been weak.
  — Maria Aspan, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
• The Bears are mired in the worst six-year run in program history.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
• The industry has been mired in a historic slump for more than a year now.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
• In terms of modern living, the rear wing of our house might as well have been mired in the Neolithic era.
  — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 15 May 2023
• The feeling was much different at the bottom, where Tiger Woods was mired in 54th.
  — Bill Pennington Doug Mills, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
• Since then, the two countries have been mired in a sporadic shooting war which has killed dozens more.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 25 May 2023
• Pence is mired in single digits, fighting for a distant third place with the rest of the growing field.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 7 June 2023
• And like Haley, Scott is mired far down in the polls and hoping to hang in until South Carolina.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
• Like Hernández, Rosario has been mired in one of his worst career seasons.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• The Astros have spent much of April mired in a bit of a nervous malaise, with an unproven roster and middling record.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
• But Woods’ case has been mired in concerns over his mental health almost from day one.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
• In the 1950s, mired in the thick of the Cold War, a small group of educators — all White men at elite institutions — came up with an idea.
  — David Perry, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• That’s a remarkable turnaround from just three months ago, when nearly all of the state was deeply mired in record dryness.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• The players have been mired in a pay fight with their federation all season.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 1 Aug. 2023
• And the whole discussion would get mired in debate over what happened rather than what should happen.
  — Gail Cornwall, Good Housekeeping, 19 Aug. 2023
• Entering the game, the team’s longtime backup catcher was mired in a career-worst year.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• The Beavers are mired in their worst slump in two years, having lost six of the last seven games, which includes a three-game sweep at Stanford last weekend.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
• A week ago, the Beach were mired in a five-game losing streak to end the regular season as their Cinderella hopes seemed to be circling the drain.
  — Kevin Dotson, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
• Neruda returned to Chile in 1952, when the González Videla government, mired in scandal, was coming to an end.
  — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
• Puddles of oozing tar have been showing up over the last week, mucking up car tires and anything else that gets mired in the sticky black substance.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• By the fall, the DeSantis operation was mired in a mess of dysfunction.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• Read more The Supreme Court, mired in controversy, could wade into the Trump indictments.
  — USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
• On the other hand, those regions in which the state intervenes the most, such as in China’s northeast, are mired in high debt and struggle with lower rates of growth.
  — Yasheng Huang, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2023
• Much of the country is mired in spring thaw, which turns fields and rural roads into a sea of mud — tough terrain even for armored vehicles.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• The decision on whether to rebuild one of the district’s oldest schools has long been mired in controversy.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
• In late December 2011, Rick Santorum was mired in the single digits in Iowa.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
• Lozano took up the challenge of leading the Mexican national team even though it was mired in one of the most profound crises in its history.
  — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 17 July 2023
• Attacks including missile strikes, drone strikes and shelling from both Ukrainian and Russian forces remain concentrated in the same general areas they were mired in at the end of 2022.
  — Samuel Granados, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024