How to Use morass in a Sentence

morass

noun
  • But a new landmark study could lead the way out of this morass.
    — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2023
  • And that concludes our journey through the morass.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • An end to this morass is going to be this fight for the rest of his agenda.
    — NBC News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • But that hasn’t stopped him from leaping head first into the racist morass of the far right.
    — Jane Coaston, Vox, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Deciding what kind of data to mine is a morass of its own, too.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • That version was in some ways delved into more of a morass of darkness.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Just as much as women have been lost in some morass of how to do everything.
    — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • The ground around it resembles marshland, a wet morass of mud and grass.
    — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2024
  • And into this morass comes cooking videos by people who do not know how to cook.
    — Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2024
  • This is the kind of deal-making required to pull the Mavs out of their morass.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
  • But are Americans too mired in the morass of our health-care system?
    — Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The result has been the battlefield morass in which his forces now find themselves.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Macron now faces the task of steering France out of its financial morass.
    — Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Somewhere buried in this morass is a theme about trying to recapture and deal with the past.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Those who resist the orders to cut their plants down can encounter a morass of fines and legal threats.
    — Ellen Airhart, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Movies are there to enable you to sit on over-comfortable chairs, to sink into a morass of sleep.
    — Dorany Pineda Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
  • Rain had fallen the night before and threatened to turn the road into a slippery morass.
    — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2019
  • That seems like a key part of where the morass starts—this desire to maintain a focus on liberal arts.
    — Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2023
  • Soon enough, Peter Quill and his friends will be drawn into the bigger morass.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 11 May 2017
  • These elements and more could help move the needle on the nation’s housing morass.
    — Alex Schwartz, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
  • All that happened Thursday, though, was a step back into the morass of mediocrity.
    — Ethan Sears, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2021
  • Texas public education is in a morass.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • But Goins does not milk the story, as Kalief’s tragedy is only one piece of a larger morass.
    — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Bacon’s Swamp was once a large morass choked with clouds of mosquitoes and home to a plethora of unique plants.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2022
  • France was pushed backwards and Wales' scrumhalf Tomos Williams ripped the ball out from the morass.
    — Daniel Gallan, CNN, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The way out of this morass may come not from the POA’s leadership but from its rank and file.
    — Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The massive language model is a morass of words connecting to other words.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • The pursuit of Xerox plunged the company into a two-year morass.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Thankfully, my colleague Steven Vargas is here to guide you through the morass.
    — Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The Terps needed a coach who could credibly begin leading the climb out of that morass in days, not weeks.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 1 Apr. 2025

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