[ UK /kwˈæɡma‍ɪ‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˈkwæɡˌmaɪɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
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How To Use quagmire 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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