Example sentences for: quagmire

How can you use “quagmire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Khedive Ismael had extravagant plans for numerous great works that were to be financed by Western European powers, but when he became stuck in a financial quagmire, they insisted on bringing in their own advisors to control key institutions.

  • As I travelled the province, I found a bureaucratic quagmire stewing in the ugly built-in racism that is an echo of Canada's colonial past.

  • The quagmire of ethical, legal, moral, and even aesthetic questions that surround the use (and misuse) of leftover body parts can only become more complex and contentious, not less.

  • "Tim, we never should have got into this quagmire, but now we have no choice but to ..."

  • (Critics favorite line: "I'm the king of Boggle, there is none higher/ I get 11 points off the word 'quagmire.


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