quicksand
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"It's like quicksand," he shouted in surprise to his family watching from a distance.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
"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
I run my fingers along the line of my jaw as my feet sink into the concrete like quicksand.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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
“Her last words to me were a message to him, for she does not know he is dead beneath the quicksands of Big Sandy.”
From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Burt L. Standish
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