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Example sentences for "quaggy"

Lexicographically close words:
quaffing; quaffs; quag; quagga; quaggas; quagmire; quagmires; quahaug; quahog; quaich
  1. Weston, blinking about him, discovered in the quaggy mould two foot-prints half filled with water.

  2. He lay still among the undergrowth about the rocky places where the deer come out to sun themselves clear of the dew-wet fern, and crawled into quaggy swamps where the little black bear feeds, but he could find no sign of life.

  3. For all that I was cumbered with the poor wretch, I made better speed back than forth, because he knew the way, and avoided rough and quaggy places.

  4. The heavy coach came lumbering along the quaggy road, the old coachman's "Whoa!

  5. Twas her ladyship's coach, no doubt, plying its slow, wearying way along the quaggy road.

  6. And then, farther inwards, as shelter of the Russians, there is another quaggy Brook, branch of the above, which is without bridge altogether.

  7. The Quaggy was handy, it is true, but when you have collected money to feed poor children and spent it on pudding it is not right to throw that pudding in the river.

  8. And we felt less and less able to face the Matron if she was horrid, and one of us at least wished we had chosen the Quaggy for the pudding's long home, and made it up to the robbed poor in some other way afterwards.

  9. They seemed to be a very long way off, and though he feared that he could not keep the sights upon any of them standing, the ground looked horribly quaggy to kneel in.

  10. Among other things, he noticed that a little trickle of water flowed across it, and that the soil was quaggy in the neighborhood.

  11. They spent half an hour over the operation, and Frank realized that trailing had its drawbacks when he found that it entailed burrowing among thorny thickets and crawling across quaggy places on his hands and knees.

  12. Even the place where the booths were situated was quaggy and muddy, but the soldiers had covered it with a thick layer of chips and branches of fir and pine-trees, which enabled them to camp upon it as upon perfectly dry ground.

  13. It was a little easier where there was only foul slime and water, and in places there were signs of a path, that is, they could see where somebody else had floundered through the quaggy waste of corruption.

  14. They went by without a sound but the confused patter of weary feet upon the quaggy trail, and left an impressive silence behind them when they plunged into the gloom again.

  15. Sky and water brightened while he swam; and as he rose, wrapped in the leaden weight of dripping clothes, the sun, before and above him, touched wonderfully the quaggy bank and parched grasses.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quaggy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boggy; flabby; marshy; miry; muddy; mushy; paludal; pulpy; soft; spongy; squashy; swampy; yielding