Example sentences for: quagmire

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

  • 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.

  • Last Friday, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic warned that a NATO ground invasion of Kosovo "would be yet another miscalculation by those who have already been proved wrong so far," posing "dangers to the whole continent" and drawing the United States into a quagmire that would make Vietnam look like "nothing."

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

  • 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.

  • Unless Clinton finds "a way to get the bombing stopped" and to "get Milosevic to pull back his troops" voluntarily, NATO faces "a quagmire ...


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