1.   By this, I mean slogging around here lately has been like navigating an inescapable mud pit.

2.   Here it looked like a small bomb had been detonated in some mud pit.

3.   Make that an inescapable mud pit layered over with quicksand.

4.   No one bathed in the nude at Live Aid, nor were there mud pits or acid-tripping hippies to distract the media.

5.   Phil Wurthier, left, checks the pipe connections from a portable water drill rig to a mud pit at a water development training school in Cleveland, Texas.

6.   Strikers run the risk of tumbling along with the owners off the good-guy high ground and into the mud pit.

7.   The roads are torn up, Centennial Olympic Park is a mud pit and tempers are still frayed over the ticket lottery.

8.   The U.S. Army camp is in something close to a mud pit some distance from the runway.

9.   They said a broken pipe was seen gushing water into the mud pit minutes after the earth moved.

10.   What started as an informal challenge among motorcyclists to see who could get through the mud pit without getting stuck soon turned into a competition among junk cars.