How to Use morass in a Sentence

morass

noun
  • But there are ways to at least creep out of this morass.
    Scott Kushner, NOLA.com, 20 Jan. 2021
  • But a new landmark study could lead the way out of this morass.
    Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2023
  • This is the kind of deal-making required to pull the Mavs out of their morass.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
  • An end to this morass is going to be this fight for the rest of his agenda.
    NBC News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • For the Sisyphean morass that is the U.S. Congress, sometimes the attempt is what counts.
    Byleo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 22 June 2023
  • But that hasn’t stopped him from leaping head first into the racist morass of the far right.
    Jane Coaston, Vox, 8 Aug. 2018
  • France was pushed backwards and Wales' scrumhalf Tomos Williams ripped the ball out from the morass.
    Daniel Gallan, CNN, 20 Oct. 2019
  • The way out of this morass may come not from the POA’s leadership but from its rank and file.
    Caille Millner, SFChronicle.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • But more broadly, some in the House GOP viewed this approach as the only way out of the morass.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The ground around it resembles marshland, a wet morass of mud and grass.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2024
  • In two and a half years of this morass, the regime has brought Russia back to the habits and mindset of the Stalinist era.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Despite the mixed verdict, messages emerged from the morass.
    Molly Ball, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Instead, there’s the usual morass of ideas and agendas.
    Mustafa Suleyman, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Many of those who did reach the U.S, are stuck in an immigration morass.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
  • But are Americans too mired in the morass of our health-care system?
    Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
  • That version was in some ways delved into more of a morass of darkness.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2022
  • A speckled fin, three feet long, flicked out of the water as Al Dove surfaced in a morass of fish guts and foam.
    Peter Guest, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
  • But Goins does not milk the story, as Kalief’s tragedy is only one piece of a larger morass.
    Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Somewhere buried in this morass is a theme about trying to recapture and deal with the past.
    Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Just as much as women have been lost in some morass of how to do everything.
    Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • Soon enough, Peter Quill and his friends will be drawn into the bigger morass.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 11 May 2017
  • The result has been the battlefield morass in which his forces now find themselves.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2022
  • But Uber remains mired in a morass of red ink, with losses of $6.2 billion during the first half of this year.
    Michael Liedtke, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Those who resist the orders to cut their plants down can encounter a morass of fines and legal threats.
    Ellen Airhart, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Why would any savvy politician wade back into that morass?
    Natalie Wexler, Forbes, 7 May 2021
  • And into this morass comes cooking videos by people who do not know how to cook.
    Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Movies are there to enable you to sit on over-comfortable chairs, to sink into a morass of sleep.
    Dorany Pineda Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
  • Rain had fallen the night before and threatened to turn the road into a slippery morass.
    David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Bacon’s Swamp was once a large morass choked with clouds of mosquitoes and home to a plethora of unique plants.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2022
  • All that happened Thursday, though, was a step back into the morass of mediocrity.
    Ethan Sears, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2021

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