quag
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of quag
First recorded in 1580–90; expressive word, obscurely akin to quake
Vocabulary lists containing quag
Example Sentences
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But a combination of mishaps and bungled central planning finally plunged the country into a hopeless economic quag mire that enraged the workers.
From Time Magazine Archive
This I did, and the deer ran for the shore, Burr pushed his boat to the quag, took the jack, and followed the track.
From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by George S. Boutwell
That was a place of wailings, And the grisly things of Death,— The bare black arms of the trees above, And the black quag underneath.
From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by John Oxenham
And oh, it was a fell, fell place, With dead black trees all round, And a quag that boiled and writhed and coiled Where had been solid ground.
From Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse by John Oxenham
Into that quag King David once did fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered, had not HE that is able plucked him out.
From The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan
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