quicksand
Example Sentences
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For those of us sinking in email quicksand, a curated list instead of a wall of new messages is compelling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026
A man has been rescued from quicksand in Morecambe Bay, in what emergency teams described as a "close call" as the tide was "rapidly pushing in".
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025
For the next eight years, as if submerging into quicksand, I sank deeper into debt.
From Salon • May 11, 2025
So I know all too well that the hype is built on quicksand — specifically, a seven-decade history of failure.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
Horsemen, riding very swiftly, had indeed been sighted: still far behind but gaining on the Orcs, gaining on them like a tide over the flats on folk straying in a quicksand.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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