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
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
For the next eight years, as if submerging into quicksand, I sank deeper into debt.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
He had dimples like quicksand, and his hazel eyes reminded me of the sluggers’ skin.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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
For long passages they were overwhelmed by a side who had spent 237 days in the relegation quicksands.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2016
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
Towards the sea the solid land gives place to a vast network of streams and creeks, whose sluggish waters are constantly depositing silt, and forming morasses or quicksands.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
