How to Use quicksand in a Sentence

quicksand

noun

• The town, and her home, may as well be made of quicksand.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 1 Apr. 2020
• The soil here is not very deep and there's no quicksand, so no fear of that.
  — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020
• That’s the kind of quicksand that can swallow your day.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2019
• The World Wide Web and its many platforms feel like fizz and ping and quicksand.
  — Gemma Sieff, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• To fall into the quicksand of you and be swallowed whole.
  — Reema Zaman, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2019
• This was the Raiders sinking deeper in the quicksand, losing their fifth game in the past six.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
• There’s a pork loin braised in milk and served in a quicksand of soft polenta.
  — Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
• It's not known if the boy lost consciousness because of the fumes or if the quicksand pulled him in.
  — Valentina Di Donato, CNN, 12 Sep. 2017
• Saudi Arabia has been keen to get out of the quicksand since late last year.
  — Sam Kiley, CNN, 4 June 2020
• The lineup at OzyFest also seemed to be built on quicksand.
  — Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• Say no to the nostalgic quicksand of the past to make room for a meaningful present.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 21 June 2021
• The cornerback froze for a split second and soon was stuck in quicksand.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• Will the robotic arm sink into the surface like quicksand?
  — Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2020
• The Hoosiers stuck their feet in quicksand and spent two hours doing nothing but sinking.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 7 Dec. 2019
• The mere sight of a plane flying overhead yanked me into a quicksand of scrolling through my camera roll of trips past.
  — Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2021
• Now is the time to lift our nations from the quicksand of racial injustice, to the solid rock of brotherhood.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2023
• So many people want to have the right to die and take others down into their selfish quicksand.
  — Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 12 May 2020
• So much so, in fact, that some leaders get stuck in the quicksand of indecision.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• This puts the Americans in the position of fighting a war that’s like quicksand.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
• Every driveway in South Brook is like that in the summer of 1974: kickstand quicksand.
  — Steve Rushin, SI.com, 21 June 2017
• It’s like filling the starting blocks with quicksand, for the Olympic 100-meter finals.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2021
• Just be aware someone around you could be treading quicksand soon.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• Main street—the wide trench that ran through the center of camp—was bedded with what Langway recalls as filthy white quicksand.
  — Jon Gertner, WIRED, 12 June 2019
• Shaking from an earthquake can cause land to behave like quicksand, causing the ground to fail.
  — Rosanna Xia, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
• The Sox are falling off a cliff, with a few sticks of dynamite strapped onto their backs, and into a vat of quicksand.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• Like anyone who lived through the 1970s, Maguire recalls the feeling of an economy that seemed to rest on quicksand.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
• Sections of rocks and sand feel like never-ending speed bumps mixed with quicksand.
  — David Curcurito, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2019
• It was assumed that the AI would never fall into that kind of shameful quicksand.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• Still, just days before the trip, certain sections of the roughly 50 miles of desert roads leading to the launch site turned into axle-deep quicksand.
  — Pete Zimowsky, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Watch Driver discuss his son's cynical approach to cinema — and his own childhood fear of quicksand — in the clip above.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024