How to Use quicksand in a Sentence

quicksand

noun
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  • The town, and her home, may as well be made of quicksand.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The soil here is not very deep and there's no quicksand, so no fear of that.
    — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020
  • That’s the kind of quicksand that can swallow your day.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The World Wide Web and its many platforms feel like fizz and ping and quicksand.
    — Gemma Sieff, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
  • To fall into the quicksand of you and be swallowed whole.
    — Reema Zaman, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2019
  • This was the Raiders sinking deeper in the quicksand, losing their fifth game in the past six.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
  • There’s a pork loin braised in milk and served in a quicksand of soft polenta.
    — Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
  • It's not known if the boy lost consciousness because of the fumes or if the quicksand pulled him in.
    — Valentina Di Donato, CNN, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Saudi Arabia has been keen to get out of the quicksand since late last year.
    — Sam Kiley, CNN, 4 June 2020
  • The lineup at OzyFest also seemed to be built on quicksand.
    — Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Say no to the nostalgic quicksand of the past to make room for a meaningful present.
    — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 21 June 2021
  • The cornerback froze for a split second and soon was stuck in quicksand.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Will the robotic arm sink into the surface like quicksand?
    — Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The Hoosiers stuck their feet in quicksand and spent two hours doing nothing but sinking.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The mere sight of a plane flying overhead yanked me into a quicksand of scrolling through my camera roll of trips past.
    — Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2021
  • Now is the time to lift our nations from the quicksand of racial injustice, to the solid rock of brotherhood.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2023
  • So many people want to have the right to die and take others down into their selfish quicksand.
    — Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 12 May 2020
  • So much so, in fact, that some leaders get stuck in the quicksand of indecision.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • This puts the Americans in the position of fighting a war that’s like quicksand.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Every driveway in South Brook is like that in the summer of 1974: kickstand quicksand.
    — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 21 June 2017
  • It’s like filling the starting blocks with quicksand, for the Olympic 100-meter finals.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Just be aware someone around you could be treading quicksand soon.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Main street—the wide trench that ran through the center of camp—was bedded with what Langway recalls as filthy white quicksand.
    — Jon Gertner, WIRED, 12 June 2019
  • Shaking from an earthquake can cause land to behave like quicksand, causing the ground to fail.
    — Rosanna Xia, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
  • The Sox are falling off a cliff, with a few sticks of dynamite strapped onto their backs, and into a vat of quicksand.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Like anyone who lived through the 1970s, Maguire recalls the feeling of an economy that seemed to rest on quicksand.
    — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
  • Sections of rocks and sand feel like never-ending speed bumps mixed with quicksand.
    — David Curcurito, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2019
  • It was assumed that the AI would never fall into that kind of shameful quicksand.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Lift you to safety when the downward pull of quicksand is mightiest.
    — Time Staff, Time, 22 May 2017
  • The nine-ton sandstone block containing the fossils appears to be a quicksand trap.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2020

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