quicksand

How To Use quicksand In A Sentence

• With its quicksands the river usually drowns a few unwary visitors every season.
• When you feel like a world you create has solid underpinnings is it easier to write than something that feels like it's written on quicksand, or harder because it feels constrained? January 12th, 2007
• If I were to glance out the window I would see the occasional forlorn exerciser stolidly jogging off to nowhere and back, or a dog walker slogging ankle-bone-deep through the beige quicksand-like sand: early risers, God bless 'em. Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town
• “Wartah” = precipice, quagmire, quicksand and hence sundry secondary and metaphorical significations, under which, as in the “Semitic” (Arabic) tongues generally, the prosaical and material sense of the word is clearly evident. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The production of the game is decent, the cards are clean and the explorer pieces are thick wooden disks with a picture on one side and quicksand on the reverse.
• The difficulty in nailing down the hardware/software cost component isn't in the definitions, it is keeping your footing in the quicksand of technology.
• The sludge was so soft and sticky it had a quicksand effect, for the more he tried to free himself, the deeper he sank into the mud.
• Getting unstuck from quicksand is really a Vulcan-esque endeavor, requiring rationality, intelligence and emotional distance. Boing Boing
• Our constitutional system, despite six major revisions, has apparently become trapped by a quicksand of confusion.
• Okay, so the album's not a step forward so much as a squirm in quicksand.