quicksand

"It's like quicksand," he shouted in surprise to his family watching from a distance.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The half-submerged mammoth sculpture in the museum’s iconic outdoor Lake Pit gives the common but inaccurate impression that the tar worked like quicksand, sucking its victims fatally downward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

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 ● Oct. 26, 2025

Climbing out of quicksand can be a long process, so be sure to take breaks when you feel your breath running out or your body beginning to tire.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

The words of that movement — “Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood” — still echo.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2022

A family spokesman said: "He pioneered fundraising cross-bay walks and was responsible for leading 6,000 charity walkers a year, avoiding the treacherous quicksands and dangerous areas."

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2021

Who, seriously, would be taken aback now if Villa, confidence shot to pieces, could not clamber out of the Premier League's quicksands?

From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 2013

Next up for the Dukes is a play about the perilous quicksands of Morecambe bay.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2010

Blackfriars Bridge had just given way, and two over the Tyne, one built by Smeaton, had collapsed by reason of quicksands under their piers.

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway