How to Use quagmire in a Sentence

quagmire

noun

• Today, thanks to the beavers, the swamp is more of a pond than quagmire.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 14 June 2019
• The ball would slip out of my hands and the place became a quagmire.
  — Kalyn Kahler, The MMQB, 30 June 2017
• But the Ravens have been stuck in a passing quagmire for three years now.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 10 Mar. 2021
• The city, much of which was built over a boggy swamp, has a quagmire on its hands.
  — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2022
• Ukraine’s rich, black earth is soft, and with the frequent rains, the roads and fields become a quagmire.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• The British economy is stuck in a quagmire of low growth.
  — David Lammy, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2024
• Instead, the two nations have been stuck in a quagmire.
  — Margaret Coker, New York Times, 13 June 2018
• And as the torrential rains fell, the young city became a quagmire.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2020
• But after a few beer samples, those who showed up to the quagmire got over it.
  — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram.com, 4 June 2017
• The streets of skid row have long languished in an urban quagmire of trash, tents and neglect.
  — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2021
• The game began in light rain, but showers turned to a steady downpour and the field became a quagmire.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 1 Nov. 2022
• The war in Afghanistan, launched by a coterie around Brezhnev, turned into a quagmire.
  — David E. Hoffman, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• Still, here was a man who cut through the political quagmire and got things done.
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 29 June 2017
• Finally putting even one of the boats on the river would bring a form of closure to a quagmire that has dragged on since spring of 2018.
  — Jessica Williams, NOLA.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• The going was rough and muddy, with patches of quagmire.
  — Smithsonian, 24 Oct. 2019
• The Giants’ quagmire is best understood in the light of these rookies.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2018
• For now, though, McCarthy is surely happy to move past the quagmire.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 7 Jan. 2023
• To him, the conflict is already a quagmire for Russia on par with that of the Afghan-Soviet war.
  — Ben Makuch, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
• The weather couldn’t have been worse – cold, sleet, rain, with the field quickly turning into a quagmire.
  — Phil Anastasia, Philly.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• How did Trump square his campaign vow to pull out of the nuclear deal with his promise to avoid Mideast quagmires?
  — Greg Sargent, The Denver Post, 21 June 2019
• Because of the quagmire at the top, so many scenarios can play out for GCU to finish anywhere from third to fifth.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2022
• Of course, tax codes can change, which means the U.S. isn't doomed to sink more deeply into the quagmire of inequality, Zucman and Saez write.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 Oct. 2019
• As the hostage cases multiplied and spread to the Mideast, so did the bureaucratic quagmire at home.
  — Michael Ames, Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2015
• The agency has long known that World War II-era graves probably held a quagmire of past mistakes.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2022
• And so, knowing when to stop is going to be key to this not becoming a quagmire for Israel.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
• The only real way out of the quagmire is for the field to commit to practices designed to correct these problems.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2018
• The virus also has created a recruiting quagmire for spring sports, when the NCAA did the same for those athletes.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 25 Aug. 2020
• The agency had to endure the quagmire of a deal that stretched and stretched, suffering low morale and seeing colleagues as well as clients jump ship.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2022
• In the end, Bush was undone not just by Katrina, but by the fact that the Iraq War had turned into a quagmire by the time the hurricane hit.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 30 Aug. 2021
• But this measure is a Byzantine quagmire of foggy muddle.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024