Explore Quagmire through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like mire or morass. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Quagmire meaning
- A swampy, soggy area of ground.
- A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
Using Quagmire
- The main meaning on this page is: A swampy, soggy area of ground. | A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
- Useful related words include: mire, quag, morass, slack.
- In the example corpus, quagmire often appears in combinations such as: the quagmire, quagmire of, quagmire that.
Context around Quagmire
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quagmire
- In this selection, "quagmire" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mcduck, refugee, new, mcduck and tara stand out and add context to how "quagmire" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a muddy quagmire according to and a new quagmire by the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quagmire" sits close to words such as aadmi, aang and abducting, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quagmire
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
TMO has been in an earnings quagmire along with much of the biotech industry. (14 words)
Quagmire McDuck Quagmire McDuck was Dingus McDuck's brother and Scrooge McDuck's great uncle. (15 words)
This ties them into the growing movement without requiring participation in the quagmire of social media. (16 words)
In a movie where one co-lead is an emotionless loner with a mental illness and the other is a popular upper-class student who puts her friend in an ethical quagmire, it feels funny to focus on the much less flashy character of the two. (46 words)
However, the greatest burden that Zuma would leave for his successor isn’t the political and judicial quagmire, but rather an energy crisis that had been passed on to Zuma by his predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, that has only worsened in recent years. (42 words)
She said the party has started a public outreach programme to “save the people from this situation” and to fulfil the agenda of its founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed “to take Jammu and Kashmir out of this trouble quagmire”. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Quagmire McDuck Quagmire McDuck was Dingus McDuck's brother and Scrooge McDuck's great uncle.
A half-inch of rain fell on Friday, turning the site into a quagmire, and attendees were ordered not to leave because the exit roads were impassable.
Egypt has so far resisted, wary of complicity in the purging of fellow-Arabs and of seeding its own refugee quagmire.
I had already driven an early pre-production prototype around a quagmire-like off-road course near the hi-tech factory in Hambach in France where the British-designed, German engineered 4x4 is built.
In order to save their daughter’s life, the entire family is dragged into a new quagmire by the promises of two African immigrants.
She said the party has started a public outreach programme to “save the people from this situation” and to fulfil the agenda of its founder Mufti Mohammad Sayeed “to take Jammu and Kashmir out of this trouble quagmire”.
The amended recommendations of the bishops and recommendations of Igbo clerics must be followed to resolve the quagmire in Ohanaeze.
The narrative feature debut of Erica Tremblay traverses much of the same ground as other films set on and around reservations, highlighting poverty, a spirit to hustle, human trafficking, and the quagmire of political relations between sovereign nations.
TMO has been in an earnings quagmire along with much of the biotech industry.
After the international quagmire that was the Vietnam War, movies were no longer all fun and games.
Battling back from 2-0 down with 18 minutes to go on a quagmire of a pitch at Field Mill signalled a charge up the table and success for Evatt in his first season in charge.
However, the greatest burden that Zuma would leave for his successor isn’t the political and judicial quagmire, but rather an energy crisis that had been passed on to Zuma by his predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, that has only worsened in recent years.
In a movie where one co-lead is an emotionless loner with a mental illness and the other is a popular upper-class student who puts her friend in an ethical quagmire, it feels funny to focus on the much less flashy character of the two.
Mr Redfern made a passionate plea to councillors to fix “the quagmire that we must endure to get our kids to school; run our businesses and conduct our lives”.
Ogunmolasuyi promised that the budget, when passed, would reposition the state’s economy from the current financial quagmire by ensuring full compliance with the financial rules, openness and adoption of world best practices.
This ties them into the growing movement without requiring participation in the quagmire of social media.
As club dealings dragged her further into the quagmire, Tara became aware of a series of letters that could have damning ramifications for her future.
As it sinks in for Roger what a quagmire he’s gotten himself into, he tries to flee; William’s friends grab and detain him.
A snowstorm had dumped over a foot of snow in the panhandle, leaving the Chadron field a “muddy quagmire,” according to the News.
Future capital project update and replacement projects also include upgrading the 20-year-old building backup generator, and modernizing the dispatch consoles and cables, which are “a wiring quagmire on the dispatch floor,” he said.
Common combinations with quagmire
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: