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• Indeed, they are mired in corruption, incompetence and skewed to China’s strategic interests.2018 December 18, Karim Raslan, “2018 was meant to be Xi Jinping’s year. Then China’s Belt and Road unravelled”, in South China Morning Post. From the entry Belt and Road
• From the beginning her mini-campaign, with its many missteps and fumblings, seem mired in confusion.2009 January 25, Sam Tanenhaus, “A Fumbled Handoff of the Torch”, in New York Times. From the entry fumbling
• The paludic soils, coded "Pt," characterize peat accumulated in fen, transitional, or bog mire ecosystems.2002, Leon Etienne Parent, Piotr Ilnicki, Organic Soils and Peat Materials for Sustainable Agriculture, →ISBN, page 2. From the entry paludic
• If the jeep sank into mire, how could we pull it out?1989, Che Muqi (车慕奇), 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122. From the entry Barkol
• Major parties have long relied on large-scale campaign contributions, and the LDP was only recently mired in an illegal fundraising scandal.2025 July 24, Ned Temko, “In Japan, too, voters want their country to be ‘great again’”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from…. From the entry ldp
• There are mires, bogs, and 'featherbeds' or quaking bogs.2014 March 17, Laurie R. King, The Mary Russell Series Books 1-4: The Beekeeper's Apprentice; A Monstrous Regiment of Women; A Letter of…. From the entry featherbed
• A few unwary spectators were dragged into the mire, too.1955 May 7, “Students Stage 'Mudeo' Frolic”, in The Lincoln Star, →OCLC, page 2. From the entry mudeo
• To be 'bogged down' or 'mired down' is to be mired, generally in the 'wet valleys' in the spring.1928, American Dialect Society, American Speech, volume IV, page 132. From the entry bog
• Water drains from surrounding sandy banks into a peaty bowl where it is held by underlying clay, an example of a soligenous mire .2016 September 27, Susie White, “Shades of Tolkien in a Northumbrian mire”, in The Guardian. From the entry soligenous
• One end of the twine sank its tail deeply into the mire and froze there, resisting all your efforts to pull it out.2009, Gwen Petersen, edited by Margret Aldrich, EVERYTHING I Know About Life I Learned From MY HORSE, Voyageur Press, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry horse apples
• It takes the online RPG experience, increasingly mired in repetitive gameplay mechanics and Middle-earthian game-worlds, and makes it seem new and exciting again.2004 spring, ZM, “Final Fantasy XI Online”, in Surge, page 110. From the entry Middle-earthian
• Indeed, with Europe mired in recession and the U.S. barely stirring, many stockpickers believe Asia offers some of the most attractive plays around.1993 June 21, Bill Javetski et al., “The Pacific is Terrific, and Europe Isn't Terrible”, in BusinessWeek, retrieved 28 May 2009. From the entry stockpicker
• If “Afropessimism” is not to take hold, African nations still mired in autocracy, bureaucracy, and corruption must begin to democratize their political systems.1990, Africa Report, vol 35/36, p. 97. From the entry Afro-pessimism
• Even with the nuance, the vote was a momentous step for a church that has been mired in intrafactional warfare over homosexuality for more than a decade.2009 July 16, Laurie Goodstein, “Episcopal Bishops Give Ground on Gay Marriage”, in New York Times. From the entry intrafactional
• Swincombe, formerly Swan-combe, runs to the north of the ridge, and has the sources of its river in the Fox Tor mires and near Childe's Tomb.1900, Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Dartmoor. From the entry decant
• The most obvious — for a junior struggling to lift himself from the mire by his bootlickings — is to go to his Chief and say — frankly — "Out!1951, The Library Assistant, volumes 44-45, page xiii. From the entry bootlicking

Meaning of mire

1. noun Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
2. noun A bog or fen; (in wetland science, specifically) a peatland which is actively forming peat, such as an active bog or fen.
3. noun An undesirable situation; a predicament.

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How do you use mire in a sentence?

Mire is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Swansea seemed to be pulling clear of trouble with five wins in their first eight games following head coach Paul Clement's appointment, but two successive defeats had dragged the Swans back into the mire.”

What is a short sentence with mire?

“to mire a horse or wagon”

What does mire mean?

Mire means deep mud; moist, spongy earth.