quicksand

Example Sentences

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"Everything changes," he said, adding "It seems like quicksand."

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

We’re sinking into a quicksand of tiny, dumb administrative tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

For the next eight years, as if submerging into quicksand, I sank deeper into debt.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

Liquefaction occurs when shaking from an earthquake effectively turns the land into quicksand.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2024

Just beneath the crust lay a twenty-foot stratum of the same quicksand Chicago builders always confronted, only now it was ice cold and a torment to workers.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson