Example sentences for: quagmire

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

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

  • 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.

  • Then, after frying Bush for having a view, idly wondering if he is an anti-Semite, and criticizing him for trying to avoid a theological quagmire in the midst of a political campaign, Kinsley attacks him and others for not sticking to their true views and also criticizes the general public (to which he was pandering only a few column inches previously) for caring about what other people believe about such issues.

  • Tom Hayden calls "Clinton's war" a "Vietnam-style quagmire" that should be abandoned.

  • 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.


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