Sentence examples for mire by from inspiring English sources

But it has been dragged ever lower into the mire by Congressional special interests that are parochial in the extreme.

Dragged back into the mire by successive defeats, Gordon Strachan's squad had travelled up the M69 weakened by injuries and suspensions.

He also stuck himself into the mire by repeatedly and enthusiastically claiming that he was against the Iraq war from the beginning.

And that bellowing, drooling, chthonic lunatic will always resist being rescued from the mire by well-meaning hands, showered off, and rehabilitated as a mature recreation.

It's as though they're haunted, dragged into the melancholy mire, by the lyric to the very song that gave them life.

Gwenn Jensen Centennial, Colo., Feb. 22, 2010 To the Editor: Re "Into the Mire," by David Brooks (column, Feb. 23): Mr. Brooks avoids the ugly truth when he cites public opinion turning against health care reform.

Great writers transcend their times, but second-rate writers are mired by theirs.

They have already been mired by corruption scandals and anti-gay laws.

Montenegro, small and mired by organized crime, is still on an upward trajectory.

His recent months were mired by a messy and public divorce case with his fifth wife.

Laid in May 2002, its use has been stalled since then, mired by state environmental compliance issues.