quicksand
Example Sentences
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“Why don’t you two show Ingrid the house. Just watch out for the hallway that eats people. And the quicksand floor. And, of course, the bathroom of doom.”
From Literature
That early access gave Xi a front-row seat to the raw mechanics of military power—and taught him that the commander who doesn’t fully control the generals is a leader standing on quicksand.
For those of us sinking in email quicksand, a curated list instead of a wall of new messages is compelling.
A man has been rescued from quicksand in Morecambe Bay, in what emergency teams described as a "close call" as the tide was "rapidly pushing in".
From BBC
I had this idea 15 years ago, and the idea that everything was changing and it was quicksand under our feet was a little less prevalent back then.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
