How To Use Quag In A Sentence

It is a political and legal quagmire, so nobody will go near it. Times, Sunday Times
It is a pity that a book that has such detail is unable to overcome the obstacles of intricacy without leaving the reader stuck in the quagmire of literary and historical obscurity.
In Chinese traditional culture , quinquagenarian audience pursue the ethnic harmony and they need ethnic cares .
Obama was hawkish about Afghanistan during the campaign, despite well-aired fears that Afghanistan is a quagmire-in-waiting. War: Politics and Power
This would be particularly severe for low income economies that are striving to pullout of their current economic quagmires.

Fourth, the "quagga"; and fifth, the undetermined species known as the "white zebra," so called from its pale yellow, or Isabella colour. Popular Adventure Tales
Each standalone part of the trilogy tells the story of a Stuart king and the political quagmire surrounding them. Times, Sunday Times
Even so, this is a legal quagmire with the possibility of litigation or fines flying in all directions.
Unpaved roads, the great majority, could become quagmires with the passage of the first few vehicles.
By midnight we had crossed the Ghadaf and the quag felt too awful for further progress. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
PROBATUM fuit Test [= m] coram d [= n] o ca [= n] t Archie [= p] o apud London decimo die mensis Junij Anno d [= n] o mille [= m] o quingentesimo quinquagesimo secundo Juramento Thome Atkynson E [= x] in hmoi testamento noiat Ac Approbatu et insumatu et comissa fuit admotraco om [= n] bonoru The Ship of Fools, Volume 1
Nicholas V, in 1450, reverted to the quinquagesimal period, while The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
The battlefields had become a quagmire of blood, gore, mud, miles of trenches and poor generalship on both sides of no-man's land.
Here is some unsolicited advice for the Obama administration: you essentially have four days to put US involvement in the Libya war on a path that doesn't look like open-ended quagmire. Robert Naiman: When the House Comes Back, You're Gonna Get in Trouble
Without a clear approach, companies could see themselves involved in a bureaucratic quagmire.
Then the "chinooks" came with their warm winds that changed the snow-laden landscape into a quagmire of mud, water, and open stretches of road which raised all kinds of havoc with the metal cleats. American Chronicle
The chatterers who argued two weeks ago that the war was turning into a quagmire have found a new cause for feigned despair: looting.
If the top mastermind is in Yemen, what the hell are we doing building a quagmire in Afghanistan? Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 9, 2010
If the pessimists are right and it turns out to be a long and costly quagmire then people will remember the negatives and the pendulum will swing back the other way.
The quinquagenarian easily outmanoeuvred a reigning World champion Who Was less than half his age. Times, Sunday Times
Within the space of a single lap the whole course had been turned to a quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
The path itself, or rather the portion of more solid ground on which the travellers half walked, half waded, was rough, broken, and in many places quaggy and unsound.
Turres quoque Nobilium Florentinorum, ut fcribit fuora lau - datus Ricordanus quum Populus do - minationem arripuit, publico decreto M ED II AEVI aio jugulatae ac depreflTje, non ultra quinquaginta cubitos afcendere juffae funt. Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi, sive, Dissertationes de moribus, ritibus, religione, regimine, magistratibus, legibus, studiis literarum, artibus, lingua, militia, nummis, principibus, libertate, servitute, foederibus, aliisque faciem & mores Italic
If the council rejects the deal, it will catapult Brussels into a legal quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
The little River Quaggy has been liberated from decades of confinement in a concrete culvert and given a new naturalistic course; a home for wildlife and a delight for people.
The next year they were hot favourites in the grand final against Warragul Industrials before losing in a quagmire at Drouin.
The only good thing about your garden becoming a quag is that the weeds pull up really easily.
That's why these two political nonentities are stuck in the political quagmire of Vietnam.
We came at last to a bit of quaggy road, which one man, by making a dash as over thin ice, might possibly have got through; for six men and a stretcher this was impossible.
So the moral argument disappears into a colonial quagmire.
One facet of this tragedy is the absence of visionary leadership capable of leading humanity out of its quagmire.
Meanwhile British politics remained fiercely partisan, with the country mired in an economic quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
Was it not better to quash all emotions entirely, the better to avoid the quagmire of feelings? Seminary Boy
Ring Number Three: The [EU] European Union, Germany, [NATO] the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and all European interests, in the [21st] Century, which means the rapid withdrawal of all offensive military European Forces from the Islamic Crescent/Arabian Peninsula/Hindu Cush, with out being dragged into yet another quagmire. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
Awesome and all of you nay sayers can just go and re-watch the Christmas special if you need a reminder as to how bad it could have been … R2 says: Whreooouuuv! quag EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Clone Wars trailer leaked
There are few roads, and some of these are impassable quagmires in the rainy season.
Most of the species that remain - notably, all five living species of rhinoceros - are in danger of extinction; others, like the quagga, have already been driven to extinction.
This quagmire is the legacy of the WORST PRESIDENT EVER. 10/22/2005
Tim Lampe demonstrates how to check trailer tires and the surrounding areas for invasive aquatic species, such as quagga and zebra mussels, which could come from using boats in other bodies of water. Nevada Appeal - Top Stories
Hence the time of our sorrow and affliction is fixed at forty days; the state of blessed joy which shall be hereafter is figured in the quinquagesimal festival, i.e. the fifty days from Easter to Pentecost. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
Quae postquam Metello comperta sunt, quamquam inter Thalam flumenque proximum in spatio milium quinquaginta, loca arida atque vasta esse cognoverat, tamen spe patrandi belli, si ejus oppidi potitus foret, omnes asperitates supervadere ac naturam etiam vincere aggreditur. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
Both novels focus on the desolation of a family trapped in the quagmire of poverty, victimization, and oppression in the Harlem ghetto.
Community leaders say the playground is a muddy, smelly quagmire even in the height of summer.
It is bogged down in a quagmire, and its credibility has been undermined internationally.
As summer rains began to fall, black wildebeest, perhaps a million of them, would trek south from winter pastures in the northeast, joined at times by springbok, blesbok and quagga.
No; the big, solid-hoofed antelope that eats like nylghau or quagga. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
Five provinces have declared for young Stadt, and there will be inundation, conflagration, constupration, consternation, and every sort of nation and nations, fighting away, up to their knees, in the damnable quags of this will-o'-the-wisp abode of Boors. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
The quagga and the blaubok became _extinct_ before the world learned that their existence was threatened! Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
The following is a brief synopsis of the quagmire we would be entering.
The quags are usually very quiet with only the odd walker or birder to be seen and seem far removed from the busy spots further along the coast at Cley and Salthouse.
He wanted to go into the quaggi, the Singing-House, when the hunters gathered there for their mysteries, and the angekok, the sorcerer, frightened them into the most delightful fits after the lamps were put out, and you could hear the Spirit of the Reindeer stamping on the roof; and when a spear was thrust out into the open black night it came back covered with hot blood. The Second Jungle Book
Either course of action will bring short-term howls of recrimination from the right ... but this mini-surge deeper into the quagmire is going to sink the administration without question. declining 35 percent approval rating for management of the war in Afghanistan Five questions for Obama on Afghan war
The quagga was a strikingly beautiful variant of the zebra.
George Bush repeated his pledge of noninvolvement last week even as he announced what amounted to a new military intervention in Iraq -- one that ran a distinct risk of drawing the United States into another quagmire. A Lifeline In Iraq
Spain was plunged deeper into the economic quagmire yesterday after its central bank predicted that growth would grind to a halt in the third quarter. Times, Sunday Times
About the other candidates, he said, excuse me, he was -- you know that Steve Martin thing, excuse me, he was the only major candidate who made the right judgment, and said, don't tell me this guy can't deal with national security when the Bush people and some of the Democrat candidates supported him in getting us into what he calls a quagmire, that's a Vietnam phrase. CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2003
Ab urbe Roma condita, anno septingentesimo quinquagesimo secundo: Archive 2009-01-01
The fact that every club Harry has ever been in charge of – Bournemouth, West Ham, Southampton, Pompey – has stumbled into a financial quagmire after he left is actually the surest indication there could possibly be of the canniness of his stewardship. For Steve Claridge, setting the team upright is a vertical challenge
There used to be another called the ‘quagga’, but mankind hunted poor quagga down and the last of the species was killed in the 1880's so that someone could have a striped hide on their living room floor.
So the war in Afghanistan must be gradually downshifted to the Left's pre-Iraq take on it: the "improvident" "quagmire" that "really solves nothing" and has only (as Obama said of the Bush approach) "given a huge boost to terrorist recruitment in countries that say, 'Look, this is how the United States treats Muslims.' National Review Online
Regardless of what you think about the job (temporary, contractually a quagmire, and possibly vague in its mission) or the campaign (missing some basic social media fundamentals, mysterious in its process, depersonalized), the gimick of the search has splash landed as one of the top 10 topics we wine bloggers talk about. A Summer of Social Media in Wine « California Life: Better Than Happy Hour
The author is convinced that the officers should be taught to think originally, to reject shopworn patterns and approaches, and to avoid bureaucratic quagmire.
Wartah" = precipice, quagmire, quicksand and hence sundry secondary and metaphorical significations, under which, as in the "Semitic" (Arabic) tongues generally, the prosaical and material sense of the word is clearly evident. Arabian nights. English
The natural extension of his work on the genetics of pigmentation led him into a study of piebald mice, this turned out to be a quagmire.
He's getting caught up in his own controversy, situating himself in an ethical quagmire he might not be able to escape from.
But there are a string of easy measures which those of us who are in the red can still take to escape the debt quagmire. The Sun
But, after two successful years, the 1958 County Show was such a minor disaster on a quagmire site that the society made the best move in its history to its present showground at Withybush.
It may also distract its members from the present quagmire with legends of a storied past or promises of an ecstatic future.
The short detour to a plank bridge had itself become a quagmire, and he edged his way along from tussock to tussock. A DEATH IN TIME
quaggy terrain
A native of southern Africa, the quagga used to occur in vast herds in the Karoo regions of Cape Province and the southern part of Orange Free State.
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The thick blanket of depression stole around her, enticing her into the depths of a silent quagmire with it's sullen truths.
Community leaders say the playground is a muddy, smelly quagmire even in the height of summer.
The most consuming mental quagmire is an unresolved personal problem. Christianity Today
The heavy rain soon turned the field into a quagmire.
Quinquaginta intus famulx; quibns ordine longo Cura penum (Iruere, et flammis adolere Penates: P. Virgilii Maronis Opera
So individuals who can translate complex terms and navigate the quagmire are in great demand.
It's time for true Conservatives to admit that the Battle in Iraq has ground to a halt and recognize that we should support pulling back militarily from the quag in which it has become mired. Sound Politics: Democrats May Be in a Quandary on Iraq
Breen sticks closely to the politics, avoiding getting bogged down in the quagmire of personal detail.
Rushing wind and lashing rain; pale gleams of a fitful moon to show swaying trees that tossed wild arms to heaven, and a splashing quag below, mud and wind-swept pools, all lost again in the swirling dark. Peregrine's Progress
Clayton devised the first empirical tests for wisdom, which she defined as the ability to acquire knowledge and analyze it both logically and emotionally — picking up on the work begun by Socrates, around the time the Peloponnesian War began to turn into what we would call a "quagmire. Don’t Forget the Owls
Jane Austen was also writing about dating, but in her day the rules were very clear, whereas now it's a quagmire of bluff and counterbluff. An interview with Helen Fielding by Ashton Applewhite
As an extinct animal, the quagga is well qualified to act as a tour guide for a paleontological museum.
Even so, some fear that the situation might degenerate into a quagmire in which the rebels resort to protracted guerrilla warfare.
Whether he was choked with gases, or perished in a quag, or was removed bodily by the Evil Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
Ping-Ponging back and forth between Alain Juppé, Jacques Chirac, and Lionel Jospin, France raised its VAT by two percentage points, instituted its notorious thirty-five-hour workweek, and sank into the quagmire of prounion, antigrowth rhetoric. RETURN TO PROSPERITY
Either course of action will bring short-term howls of recrimination from the right ... but this mini-surge deeper into the quagmire is going to sink the administration without question. declining 35 percent approval rating for management of the war in Afghanistan Five questions for Obama on Afghan war
They followed the spoor of a company of elephants in the East country, they watched through the November mist the blesbok flying across the veld, a herd of quaggas taking cover with the rheebok, or a cloud of locusts sailing out of the sun to devastate the green lands. The Judgment House
Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima, which denote the Sundays which immediately precede, and the word Quadragesima, which denotes the first The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands
The material employed by him for this purpose is a kind of agglutinated mud, which he procures from the neighbouring watercourse or quagmire, and somewhat similar to that used by the common house-swallow for constructing _its_ peculiar nest. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
When you have a temperature of, like, 39 degrees and you're at a depth where there's no wave action or current, the only thing that can damage the wood would be zebra or quagga mussels as they collect and grow in big clumps and fall off, Kennard said. Wreck of Canadian schooner found in Lake Ontario
The ground was easy to dig - not so wet as to be a quagmire, but soft enough that the only problems were the odd stone, piece of wire and a couple of boulders.
In the rainy season the roads become a quagmire.
The first DNA to be extracted from an ancient specimen was from 150-year-old tissues from the quagga, an extinct relative of the zebra.
The Cape Colony extended systematic protection to elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, buffalo, zebras, quaggas and antelopes in 1886.
Your simple behaviour may result a quagmire of errors, mis - directed activity and utter frustration.
The main landscape feature is endless peatbog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
Even a decent rainstorm will turn the battlefield into a quagmire. TREASON KEEP
At the end of the match, the pitch was a real quagmire.
The previous day's pre-winter storm also turned anything that was not paved into a mud-caked quagmire. Army Lt. Chad Ware Wins 2011 Marine Corps Marathon (VIDEO)
She pulled it off in the quagmire at Loch Lomond, but it will certainly be a tougher proposition under the hostile glare of Minneapolis.
On hearing this, off galloped Thorir and his men, but the bogs were a sort of quagmire, wherein the horses stuck fast; and remained wallowing and struggling for the greater part of the day, while the riders 'gave to the devil withal the wandering churl who had so befooled them.' The Book of Romance
The deal includes a medical check-up and four treatments a day, including hydromassage, algae bath, underwater showers, jet showers, algae and mud packs and the use of the aquagym.
The Cape Colony extended systematic protection to elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, buffalo, zebras, quaggas and antelopes in 1886.
The invention provides fiber base protein molecularly imprinted polymer aquagel and a preparation method thereof.
The only way of getting the economy out of the quagmire is by lowering public sector wages, said Rachlevsky. Israel's Public Sector, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
When once I had seen from the leads of our house the quag of reeking life around, the stubs and snags of chimney-pots, the gashes among them entitled streets, and the broken blains called houses, I was quite ashamed of paying any thing to become a Christian. Erema
Hamas, he sadly claimed, had "fallen into the quagmire of surrender," and the leadership had "sold out" to the king: "The leadership of Hamas has committed an aggression against the rights of the Islamic nation by accepting what it called respecting international agreements [a code word for the Oslo process]. Newmatilda.com - Comments
Straw, sand and pine needles have been dumped onto spectator walking areas, creating a smelly quagmire.
Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
Joel, who isn't racing, is wise enough to stay out of the quagmire and cruise the scene at the top of the mountain.
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Farmers began developing more land, establishing wheat production and other crops in areas which traditionally were home to Cape mountain zebra and the extinct quagga.
Broad expanses of open sand undulate, sweeping up into steep mountains or falling off into lakes, ponds, and shallow quagmires of quicksand.
Allfou and the rest of incurables and the last of immurables, the quaggy waag for stumbling. Finnegans Wake
The problem is that code developed under different licences all gets mixed together in implementations, producing a legal quagmire.
The ground over which the attack had to be delivered was an almost inconceivable quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
He regrets that he chose the phrase 'tar baby,' rather than the word 'quagmire.' The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Then I flung my body suddenly backward against the squelching quag, and, grabbing wildly behind my head, laid hold of her fetlock. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
HEUVEL: John McCain is -- gives new meaning to the term quagmire as a warmonger, has an 82 percent American Conservative Union rating. CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2008
Within a few days, the heaviest rain for 30 years had turned the soil into a quagmire, producing thick mud that clogged up rifles and immobilised tanks.
Accusative; as, -- quadrāgintā annōs vīxit, _he lived forty years_; hīc locus passūs sescentōs aberat, _this place was six hundred paces away_; arborēs quīnquāgintā pedēs altae, _trees fifty feet high_; abhinc septem annōs, _seven years ago_. New Latin Grammar
Officials in Indonesia have warned that if the legal quagmire is not sorted out before Tristan reaches the age of five, he cannot be adopted.
There are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires which special science calls moutardes. 59 The pick advances laboriously through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Les Miserables
It took a different sort of player in ye olden days to survive on what was a quagmire for most of the season. The Sun
Thayer's talk will bring board members up to speed regarding current non-native species that pose a threat to the ecological balance of the basin, while also discussing techniques designed to prevent aggressive species such as quagga and zebra mussels from entering the lake. The Record-Courier - Top Stories
An old joke among the Dutch, the first Europeans to settle in South Africa, was that the quagga was a zebra that had forgotten its pajama pants. Quagga-breeding
The idea of an expanding U.S. commitment, however, is precisely what raises the specter of quagmire for critics, raising ghosts of Vietnam.
The unmetalled road became a quagmire of mud in winter, and a rough, dried up track in summer.
If one slips into the quagmire of the so-called multiparty democratic republic, one cannot escape from upholding these so-called independent institutions. Archive 2006-07-01
From the end of it a small wand planted here and there showed where the path zig-zagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
Unfortunately it seems like the Democratic quagmire is full of emotion and very little reasoning. Obama picks up superdelegate
We should not be guided by how to get the United States out of the quagmire it has so maladroitly manufactured.
If Iraq is key to Bush's 'terror war' ... we're losing yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'If Iraq is key to Bush\'s \'terror war\' ... we\'re losing '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: If Democrats are going to continue to acknowledge Bush\'s \'terror war\ ', they should oblige him and aggressively tie it to the quagmire in Iraq and his regime\'s wallowing failures elsewhere in the world.' If Iraq is key to Bush's 'terror war' . . . we're losing
Within the space of a single lap the whole course had been turned to a quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
The rain is sheeting down out of a heavy sky, turning the Knavesmire into more of a quagmire.
Partibus equidem in illis miles unus quinquaginta generat, sortitus more barbaro denas aut amplius uxores. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
We have wiped out more species than I can name, from the dodo to the moa to the quagga to the thylacine.
The quagga is a placental mammal, a group also called Eutheria by scientists.
As you get to the more complicated and perplexing aspects of physical science you reach a quagmire in having a unified answer.
Museum specimens of the Quagga have dark stripes on the head and neck, but further back the stripes become paler and the interspaces darker, until they merge into a plain brownish color.
The article goes on to say one option is to boost the force level by up to 50,000 even though any increase greater than 20 - 30,000 would be "prohibitive" - but it won't deter the Pentagon, on administration orders, from extending tours of duty even longer for forces now there and calling up thousands of reservists and greatly extended National Guard units to get into this quagmire even though it's recognized their presence will only make things worse as well as place an unfair burden on those called up, who've served before, and their families. A Look Back and Ahead In An Age of Neocon Rule
When all this takes place in a quagmire it becomes more depressing and difficult for all concerned.
Perhaps the word is only one of a numerical series: Quadragesima, Quinquagesima, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
The South African museum staff feels confident that they can ‘resurrect’ the quagga by back-crossing plains zebra specimens most resembling it.
Much is made of whether it is a "real" quagga or not, but according to Jonathan Kingdon, in Volume 3 B of his magisterial 7- volume East African Mammals, the quagga is a mere race, conspecific with the common zebra. Back to the Blog!
Meanwhile British politics remained fiercely partisan, with the country mired in an economic quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
This political quagmire does relate closely to the economic situation.
Looking to the future, the legal quagmire of the Internet presents new issues and challenges to both free speech and morality.
The sticker fees, which help fight invasive species such as quagga and zebra mussels, are IdahoStatesman.com News Updates
We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
This is expected to become a legal quagmire, with landholders' interests already warning of test cases over compulsory purchases.
Welling provides an overview of the key debates in the contemporary field but becomes mired in a definitional quagmire.
Both tires have deep, conical lugs that grip like a colony of leeches but are spaced well-enough apart to shed even the most adhesive quag with ease.
But some also think he has awakened to the idea that he needs broad consensus, not least because he doesn't want to be blamed for an Iraq quagmire -- one that may involve a long-term peacekeeping presence in an Arab country -- when the 2004 election rolls around. Hawks, Doves And Dubya
Many developing and poor nations, however, are stuck in a quagmire of debt and impoverishment, no matter how much assistance they receive.
She listened to the sermon as from a warm nest safely raised above the quaggy ground of personal feeling. Red Pottage
For dinner they each ate a carton of tepid rice and quaggy vegetables. Heaven Lake
The main landscape feature is endless peat bog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
The whole middle east quagmire is as a result of the U.S. policy in backing the most unbending nation in the world. Kennedy says no to joint ticket
The Cape Colony extended systematic protection to elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, buffalo, zebras, quaggas and antelopes in 1886.
In Chinese traditional culture , quinquagenarian audience pursue the ethnic harmony and they need ethnic cares .
Saturday's final was a battle of two very game teams on an absolute quagmire of a pitch.
As the economy recovers, organisations will want to be fleet of foot and may find themselves entrenched in a quagmire of contact clauses and restrictions.
Heavy rain turned the car parks into quagmires to such an extent that cars were banned for Saturday's official qualifying day.
“Wartah” = precipice, quagmire, quicksand and hence sundry secondary and metaphorical significations, under which, as in the “Semitic” (Arabic) tongues generally, the prosaical and material sense of the word is clearly evident. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The English forces were hopelessly exposed without shelter as torrents of freezing rain lashed down and the ground turned into a quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
However, there is one interesting thing about wild, remote, quaggy old Isle of Lewis.
Meanwhile British politics remained fiercely partisan, with the country mired in an economic quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
To call recent storylines a quagmire would cause me to go look up ‘quagmire‘ and make sure I’m using it correctly “a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position”, yeah he’s had a few of those. The Fifth Color – Accentuate the Positive
Each of the AquaGate's Fan Speed settings also shows a direct result on its cooling ability.
Plains, or Burchell's zebra, also known as bonte quagga ( Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Breen sticks closely to the politics, avoiding getting bogged down in the quagmire of personal detail.
Or if we had this plan over here then that would address this economic quagmire that we found ourselves in. Christianity Today
The recent snow and rain turned some of the peat hags into quagmires and a stiff westerly wind made the going tough.
When we got there it was raining very hard and the patio area was a quagmire.
IT HAS become a public - relations quagmire and China is struggling to escape.
The quagga was a horselike animal native to southern Africa that went extinct in 1883. Quagga-breeding
It is a certain bureaucratic quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
The ground over which the attack had to be delivered was an almost inconceivable quagmire. Times, Sunday Times
That helped explain why the river was so murky and why all the crossings were feculent quagmires of cow dung and mud, stirred up by scores of hooves and further churned by trucks, whose tracks laced the riverbanks for miles above and below me.
They belonged to what seemed a giant body, sunk up to the shoulders in a quag. The Courts of Chaos
We bore to the south down a descent, and came to some moory, quaggy ground intersected with water-courses. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
The quaggas looked like a zebra in the front half of its body and at the back like a horse, in other words, it had zebra stripes on the neck and shoulders and pale, brown hindquarters.
The day's two earlier races had made these boggy Flanders fields even more of a quagmire by the time of the main event.
And I love finding new ones, like the one I discovered last week via Wordsmith: quaggy (KWAG-ee) adjective Marshy; flabby; spongy. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Music of Language
Well - the quagga was a subspecies of zebra, so you're not wrong.
Even under these circumstances imagination, as though rebelling against the conditions of sunshine and summer then maintaining, leaped to picture Mên Scryfa under the black screaming of winter storm or rising darkly upon deep snows; casting a transitory shadow over a waste ghastly blue under flashes of lightning, or throbbing to its deep roots when thunder roared over the moor and the levin brand hissed unseen into quag and fen. Lying Prophets
The Balkan situation became a political and military quagmire.
Since the coup, the country has sunk deeper into a quagmire of violence and lawlessness.
The soil raised the planting beds, lifting plant roots out of the quagmire and allowing excess water to drain away.
The main landscape feature is endless peatbog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.
And this year heavy rain turned most of the course into a quagmire, making conditions even more challenging, causing many slips and falls throughout the afternoon.
Along the way, as you know, we've had a lot of rain here over those days, a number of the trucks got stuck in quagmires because they were going off road to get there, had to dismount some soldiers.
One reason that Britain is in such an economic quagmire is because of decades of unbalanced growth, fuelled by consumption and debt rather than savings and investment. Times, Sunday Times
The town was mucid and quaggy in the extreme.
That campaign didn't exactly become the quagmire critics predicted.
Even mature, responsible quinquagenarians do that from time to time. Times, Sunday Times
There are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires which special science calls moutardes. 59 The pick advances laboriously through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Les Miserables

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