| 1 | The tank (got) bogged down in the mud. | |
| 2 | "Why have you got us into this mire?, " he asked. | |
| 3 | Peatlands or mires are another major store of greenhouse gases. | |
| 4 | Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached the other side of the quagmire. | |
| 5 | All that borrowing set the stage for our current economic morass, and now thrift is back in vogue. |