quicksilver
Example Sentences
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But after that, Carpenter’s quicksilver timing and ease, plus a diverse set of sketches, put the episode over the top.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2025
That combination of hard-running forward and quicksilver backs, connecting with superb handling skills, was in evidence again and again.
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025
Music director and conductor Stephen Oremus maintained the production’s high musical standards, bringing out the extensive palette of a rock score with quicksilver moods.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025
Above all, he was fast, possessed of that urgent, quicksilver sort of speed that carries with it an air of permanent menace.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2023
Dr. Hauptmanns hounds bound through frozen fields beside the school, drops of quicksilver skittering through the white.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
