QUAGMIRE in a Sentence

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There are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires which special science calls moutardes.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUAGMIRE
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quagmire
 n.  soft wet boggy land; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself
Classic Sentence:
1  Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached the other side of the quagmire.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE FONTIS
2  Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL
3  Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
4  The heavy lumpish phrase sank slowly out of hearing like a stone through a quagmire.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  There are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires which special science calls moutardes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
Example Sentence:
1  In the rainy season the roads become a quagmire.
2  At the end of the match, the pitch was a real quagmire.
3  Up to her knees in mud, Myra wondered how on earth she was going to extricate herself from this quagmire.