quicksand

How To Use quicksand In A Sentence

• With its quicksands the river usually drowns a few unwary visitors every season.
• As Martin Luther King Jr. told us, "Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice."
• Each day we seem to sink deeper into the quicksand of self-indulgence.
• Unconventional measures - quantitative easing - seem to have been sufficient to avoid the quicksand of deflation.
• The quicksand of compound interest is real.
• Confronting seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us.
• And even if it could land safely upright, might it not sink into the dust, to be trapped in lunar quicksand, never to escape? Apollo Talk « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
• We've all done it, its like walking in quicksand, the more you struggle the faster you sink.
• The sleepy Celestial seasons had gone flowering their way to paradise, and the opium-smuggler and her sycee silver lay safe and swallowed in ribs and jowl of quicksand. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
• We naturally turn to the Bible for guidance and find ourselves mired in interpretive quicksand.