On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Morass. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as mire or quagmire and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Morass meaning
- A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
- Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.
Using Morass
- The main meaning on this page is: A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. | Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.
- Useful related words include: mire, quagmire, quag, slack.
- In the example corpus, morass often appears in combinations such as: morass of, the morass, into morass.
Context around Morass
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Morass
- In this selection, "morass" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ethical, costly, muddy, holds, von and requiring stand out and add context to how "morass" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a costly morass requiring the and a muddy morass in no. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "morass" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with morass
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Yet its ethical morass holds you. (6 words)
The Arab nationalist movements have been long sunk in a morass of despotism. (13 words)
The conservatives warned that this case would lead the courts into a morass. (13 words)
But the pitch of the steps and ramps are too steep for the larger animals, and the goat farmer thinks they would churn up the lawn to a muddy morass in no time at all if given the chance. (39 words)
With this growing disparity between the north and the south, we shall eventually create two Nigerias – one, relatively well off and living above the poverty line and the other sinking deeper into the morass of extreme poverty. (37 words)
The left-wing camp, backed by many former army officers and public servants, is portraying the idea as such a morass of risks as to invalidate the possibility that it contains any kind of opportunity at all. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
But a transparent and forward-thinking Government such as the PPP/C would not be dragged into that morass.
If the cricket world diffuses into a morass of privately owned and run tournaments, then the base of the pyramid is going to suffer badly.
With this growing disparity between the north and the south, we shall eventually create two Nigerias – one, relatively well off and living above the poverty line and the other sinking deeper into the morass of extreme poverty.
The broader discourse suggests that public schools are a morass of academic underachievement and social disorder.
Through the morass of migration, words become encumbered with meaning, determining who speaks, what language we choose, and where we may or may not go.
Yet its ethical morass holds you.
From this morass, von der Leyen wants a quarter of the budget to kick start a trillion euros of green spending.
The left-wing camp, backed by many former army officers and public servants, is portraying the idea as such a morass of risks as to invalidate the possibility that it contains any kind of opportunity at all.
War must not and shall not rob us of our equipment of society and drag us down into the morass of barbarism.
I must be but a hop, skip and a jump from being sectioned, I thought, and sunk even further into the morass of anxiety and fear.
Peters was also critical of Bennett in the morass of the Jami-Lee Ross debacle.
The club is stuck in a morass, the conventional wisdom goes, because its last unqualified success on the transfer market was bringing in Robin van Persie in 2012, before Woodward’s promotion.
Venezuela remains a morass with Nicolas Maduro still in power despite attempts to dislodge him.
A “fully automated” factory in Fremont, California turned into a costly morass requiring the airlift of an entire assembly line from Germany, at eye-watering expense.
But the pitch of the steps and ramps are too steep for the larger animals, and the goat farmer thinks they would churn up the lawn to a muddy morass in no time at all if given the chance.
The Arab nationalist movements have been long sunk in a morass of despotism.
The conservatives warned that this case would lead the courts into a morass.
The movie's pinwheeling plot—criss-crossing romantic affairs, a drug and money-laundering scandal, employment woes, etc., etc.—is an overwhelming morass of wit, language, deviance, insecurity, and perhaps above all, pleasure.
While the political morass was playing out here in the US last week, things were not going much better in the UK, where uncertainty over the potential Brexit remains high.
You can probably make yourself a suitable playlist out of this morass of Kinks stuff and reinstate the album’s original track order, or just pretend you’ve got the box on shuffle.
Common combinations with morass
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- morass of 11×
- the morass 5×
- into morass 4×
- this morass 2×
- in morass 2×
- morass with 2×