quicksilver
Example Sentences
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"I just love the quicksilver delivery and suave flamboyance of Coward, it's delightful to play."
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
All would be lost, however, without Mays’ quicksilver brilliance — the way he can shift from savage irony to vindictive rage to godless despair in the space of a line.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
Dupont, France's quicksilver XV-a-side captain, surprised the rugby world when he swapped the 2024 Six Nations for a shot at seven-a-side Olympic glory.
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024
Simpson’s trial coincided with the internet becoming an established phenomenon, which would decisively upend the already shrinking world of hard Gutenberg print and lean into the ephemeral, quicksilver phantoms of a digital web.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024
Below our hill, the lights of Oakland would gleam like a cloud of fireflies and the wrinkling waters of the bay would turn to quicksilver under the moon.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
Vocabulary lists containing quicksilver
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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"Coming of Age in the Dawnland," Vocabulary from the historical excerpt
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