How to Use quicksilver in a Sentence

quicksilver

noun

• Its boom time was the mid- to late 1800s, when its quicksilver mines thrived.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
• The district was the site of a number quicksilver mines in the 19th century.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• Crawford wins the fight and the argument with his quicksilver skillset and durable smarts.
  — Manouk Akopyan, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
• There’s way too much darkness, and not enough quicksilver wit.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Twin Cities, 6 June 2019
• The tears will flow like quicksilver this weekend in New Almaden.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2017
• At other times of day, its opaque blackness, which seems to absorb all the light that surrounds it, acts as a kind of backdrop for the sky’s quicksilver mood changes.
  — Amanda Fortini, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2017
• Police found quicksilver, lead and cadmium in the man's home.
  — Darko Janjevic, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
• The guns, as elusive as quicksilver in a country awash in weapons, now belonged to whoever bought the contents in a blind auction.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
• Schools of smolt salmon flicker like quicksilver, preparing for their journey out to sea.
  — Neil Ever Osborne, Smithsonian, 24 Oct. 2017
• Arthur Ashe was a quicksilver figure on the court, erratic at times but never boring.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018
• For the most part, though, Ms. Rapace portrays her with a quicksilver mix of severity and serenity.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• This is the latest feature from Pixar, quicksilver in its pacing and clear-eyed in its conflicts between parents and children.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2022
• There was a recognition that passed between us in that first moment, quicksilver fast and white hot, like a lightning strike on a deserted beach.
  — Jill Gleeson, Woman's Day, 9 June 2017
• Pointed, nimble rhythms defined the quicksilver changes in the second movement, concluded with a somber brass chorale and subtle tag.
  — Libby Hanssen, kansascity.com, 17 June 2017
• Each strophe creates a distinctive sound world on the fly — now fiercely dissonant, now languid and sweet-toned — and the piece moves from one to the next with quicksilver elusiveness.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• The film is elevated by Ms. Danner’s quicksilver presence, and leavened by Ms. Chomko’s sly sense of humor and lyrical sense of loss.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
• The currencies are a new ghost in the machine, enticing strands of codes and squiggles that move like quicksilver and hold strange power over our imaginations.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• This to-and-fro’ing might have led to a common ground for grazing, with laws of its own, and certainly open to reivers: mayhem-makers whose specialty was cattle rustling and quicksilver raids on farmsteads and whole towns.
  — Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 June 2018
• Dickie, a student at Trinity College, wanders into a club debate, where he’s bewitched by the quicksilver sophistry of one of his peers, Willie, who is openly gay.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2023
• The New York Times runs an article about it almost every day, and stories of nightmare commutes race like quicksilver across social media.
  — Ryu Spaeth, New Republic, 6 June 2017
• The element mercury is the liquid metal also known as quicksilver.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 3 July 2019
• That is but one example of Smith’s quicksilver technique in service to his panoramic imaginings.
  — Alexander C. Kafka, Washington Post, 8 June 2019
• Both can assume any guise and, when smashed or shredded, mold themselves back into shape; the difference is that, whereas the earlier model was like quicksilver, the new one appears to be made of molasses.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2019
• Cobham-Hervey, who, like Reddy, is Australian, is a quicksilver actor who doesn’t overplay the role’s iconic trappings.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Sep. 2020
• Wolcott Balestier was a darting, quicksilver figure, who probably deserves a book of his own.
  — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
• Seeing the thoroughbreds run live was a far different experience than on television, which doesn’t give a sense of their quicksilver speed.
  — Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
• Realism is the default for writers and actors today, but the universe that Hnath constructs is pure theatrical quicksilver.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 5 June 2017
• The La Foret building, which dates to 1848, was the first two-story hotel in California and originally housed workers from the quicksilver mines, according to the restaurant’s website.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2017
• Allowing the quicksilver winger to leave is illogical for a myriad of reasons.
  — SI.com, 11 July 2019
• Injury has kept him out since February, but the quicksilver defender will be returning very shortly.
  — SI.com, 24 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024