How to Use quicksand in a Sentence

quicksand

noun
  • And yet those tracks are laid on quicksand.
    — David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The soil here is not very deep and there's no quicksand, so no fear of that.
    — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Just be aware someone around you could be treading quicksand soon.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The cornerback froze for a split second and soon was stuck in quicksand.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Saudi Arabia has been keen to get out of the quicksand since late last year.
    — Sam Kiley, CNN, 4 June 2020
  • Most of them had been birthed into tough luck and raised in the quicksand of rural poverty.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Sections of rocks and sand feel like never-ending speed bumps mixed with quicksand.
    — David Curcurito, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2019
  • 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
  • And maybe that's how to escape the loyalty quicksand.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Say no to the nostalgic quicksand of the past to make room for a meaningful present.
    — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 21 June 2021
  • 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
  • Wise companies will keep plowing through this quicksand and prepare for the next wave.
    — Andrew Winston, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Lift you to safety when the downward pull of quicksand is mightiest.
    — Time Staff, Time, 22 May 2017
  • Shaking from an earthquake can cause land to behave like quicksand, causing the ground to fail.
    — Rosanna Xia, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
  • The Hoosiers stuck their feet in quicksand and spent two hours doing nothing but sinking.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The World Wide Web and its many platforms feel like fizz and ping and quicksand.
    — Gemma Sieff, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • In our view, the only way to escape this play-in quicksand is to pick one of the three aforementioned paths.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Just a few weeks ago, the Dallas Cowboys looked to be sinking in quicksand.
    — Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The nine-ton sandstone block containing the fossils appears to be a quicksand trap.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2020
  • Even the stuff Trump can do on his own — executive orders — have hit quicksand.
    — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2017
  • But the quicksand flowed back as soon as the backpacker shoveled it away, Marshall said.
    — CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Chicago and Illinois are sinking in a quicksand of pension debt.
    — Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Lockdown felt like quicksand — an inertia that led to a frenzied effort to restart the engine of my life.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 1 Aug. 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
  • Forget the corny black and white movie scenes of a jungle explorer getting swallowed whole in a pit of quicksand.
    — Joe Spring, Outside Online, 18 June 2013
  • It was assumed that the AI would never fall into that kind of shameful quicksand.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • 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

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