MORASS in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for MORASS, such as:

1. In some parts it widens into a morass.
2. This morass was not her home, she insisted.
3. The artillery would have been lost among the morasses.
4. We're trying to drag the country out of its economic morass.
5. There is another morass down yonder, and a narrow neck between.

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 Meanings and Examples of MORASS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
morass
 n.  anything that entraps or makes progress difficult; a tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh
 n.  something that hinders or overwhelms; low-lying, soggy ground
Classic Sentence:
1  The path from the wood leads to a morass, and from thence to a ford, which, as the rains have abated, may now be passable.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  God help those who wander into the great mire now, for even the firm uplands are becoming a morass.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
3  Somewhere in the heart of the great Grimpen Mire, down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in, this cold and cruel-hearted man is forever buried.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
4  In some parts it widens into a morass.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
5  With high hopes we struck across the peaty, russet moor, intersected with a thousand sheep paths, until we came to the broad, light-green belt which marked the morass between us and Holdernesse.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
6  There is another morass down yonder, and a narrow neck between.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
7  It was not, alas, a clean rush of waves they had to win through, but a clogging morass of old associations and habits, and for the moment its vapours were in his throat.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
8  This morass was not her home, she insisted.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  Two of the sweeping bastions appeared to rest on the water which washed their bases, while a deep ditch and extensive morasses guarded its other sides and angles.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
10  The artillery would have been lost among the morasses.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
Example Sentence:
1  Her parents had started her on drum lessons at age ten to help dissipate some of her inexhaustible energy. But at fifteen, she fell into an emotional morass.
2  Government authorities have expanded investigations into multiple business lines at some of the nation's largest banks, a sign that the legal morass enveloping the industry has no clear end in sight.
3  We're trying to drag the country out of its economic morass.