How to Use quagmire in a Sentence

quagmire

noun
  • Trump wants to avoid a quagmire.
    — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The ball would slip out of my hands and the place became a quagmire.
    — Kalyn Kahler, The MMQB, 30 June 2017
  • Today, thanks to the beavers, the swamp is more of a pond than quagmire.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 14 June 2019
  • The city, much of which was built over a boggy swamp, has a quagmire on its hands.
    — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2022
  • Sending in the Marines could lead to a quagmire.
    — Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 2 Dec. 2025
  • But the Ravens have been stuck in a passing quagmire for three years now.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 10 Mar. 2021
  • But after a few beer samples, those who showed up to the quagmire got over it.
    — Matthew Martinez, star-telegram.com, 4 June 2017
  • You’re allowed to want more, of course, but be wary of getting stuck in the quagmire of self-pity.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Still, here was a man who cut through the political quagmire and got things done.
    — Joseph Hincks, Time, 29 June 2017
  • And as the torrential rains fell, the young city became a quagmire.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2020
  • The men opened the panel to find a quagmire of colorful wires in a cutout in the wall.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Ukraine’s rich, black earth is soft, and with the frequent rains, the roads and fields become a quagmire.
    — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • But Venezuela has the makings of a classic quagmire.
    — Nolan Finley, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The streets of skid row have long languished in an urban quagmire of trash, tents and neglect.
    — NBC News, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Investors recoiled out of fears of an endless quagmire.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The quagmire has sucked in hundreds of thousands of service members on both sides.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The game began in light rain, but showers turned to a steady downpour and the field became a quagmire.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The weather couldn’t have been worse – cold, sleet, rain, with the field quickly turning into a quagmire.
    — Phil Anastasia, Philly.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • But as Japan has learned the hard way, low inflation can be an economic quagmire.
    — New York Times, 15 July 2021
  • Not long ago, mahouts prodded their working elephants to help push trucks free of muddy quagmires on the road.
    — Doug Clark, New York Times, 28 May 2017
  • As free agency and the draft inch closer, the Jets are in a quarterback quagmire.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • For now, though, McCarthy is surely happy to move past the quagmire.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The Giants’ quagmire is best understood in the light of these rookies.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2018
  • But this is the wrong time for political sideshows or ethical quagmires.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The war in Afghanistan, launched by a coterie around Brezhnev, turned into a quagmire.
    — David E. Hoffman, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
  • And so, knowing when to stop is going to be key to this not becoming a quagmire for Israel.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
  • There is no single champion for the region, and there is no consensus on how to bring the area out of its quagmire.
    — Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The ongoing debate about whether the Iran war will become a quagmire misses the point.
    — Nicholas D. Kristof, Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2026
  • One by one, Apple’s six senior leaders in the room voiced their discontent with the quagmire.
    — Geoffrey Cain, Vanity Fair, 11 May 2026
  • Just 6 percent of those asked blamed Gantz for the political quagmire.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2019

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