How To Use Quicksand In A Sentence
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With its quicksands the river usually drowns a few unwary visitors every season.
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As Martin Luther King Jr. told us, "Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice."
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Each day we seem to sink deeper into the quicksand of self-indulgence.
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Unconventional measures - quantitative easing - seem to have been sufficient to avoid the quicksand of deflation.
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The quicksand of compound interest is real.
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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.
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And even if it could land safely upright, might it not sink into the dust, to be trapped in lunar quicksand, never to escape?
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We've all done it, its like walking in quicksand, the more you struggle the faster you sink.
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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
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We naturally turn to the Bible for guidance and find ourselves mired in interpretive quicksand.
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With its quicksands the river usually drowns a few unwary visitors every season.
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Suddenly its own chosen ground of national security had turned into quicksand.
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But in recent years attendance has plunged, forcing the track into financial quicksand.
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Far from holding the intellectual high ground, economics rests on foundations of quicksand.
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Dropping to a crouch, the princess crept to the edge of the quicksand.
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She walked towards him as if she was struggling through quicksand.
THE WHITE DOVE
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But the Middle East has proved more of a quicksand for her talents.
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In desperation, she tried to force her unwilling feet to move, but it was as though she were mired in quicksand.
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Because quicksand is so viscous, it's difficult for air to penetrate it.
Boing Boing
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In fact, one of the true dangers of quicksand is exhaustion.
Boing Boing
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The boom that was built on the quicksand of inflation then comes to a sudden end.
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Explore the sands, catch some fish and learn about quicksands with Cedric Robinson.
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When John died, in October 1216, shortly after losing part of his baggage train in quicksands in the Wash, the country was torn in two by a civil war which was going badly for the Angevins.
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There's no worse place on earth for quicksand and nobody can top my men for sand rescue.
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Stay too long and you inevitably drown in a quicksand of disappointment, seedy nostalgia and self-deception.
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In recent years, one local farmer and one from a neighboring community suffocated in quicksand-like grain bins.
Some workers face danger for our convenience
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Occasionally, the rutted tracks of a 4x4 cut through the sabkha - the soft and salty crust of quicksand tables that lie at the lowest troughs of the mountainous dunes - the vehicles invisible or long gone.
Undefined
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But going negative could be political quicksand for Senator Obama.
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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.
Arabian nights. English
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Geological problems such as landslides, quicksand, cave-in were persistent through the entire process of construction, and we have built a 5,800-meter-long tunnel in a stratum known as tuff, a type of rock composed of compacted volcanic ash, which is the world's first of the kind," Shen said.
The Times of India
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It is into this quicksand that the public finances are now fast sinking.
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His warnings proved to be accurate during the building of the Tuam Street pumping station as there was great difficulty because of the quicksands and beds of shingle around the site.
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Despite valiant efforts from the cast, the two hours that follow it prove to be nothing more than a descent into the quicksand of mediocrity.
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Knowing Seiko is bad enough, but caring about her is the same as getting caught in quicksand.
FLOATING CITY
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I was sinking in a quicksand of bitterness.
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Born with a legal claim to honour and to affluence, he was in two months illegitimated by the Parliament, and disowned by his mother, doomed to poverty and obscurity, and launched upon the ocean of life only that he might be swallowed by its quicksands, or dashed upon its rocks.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
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Victims are sucked down by quicksands and drowned by the tides that can race in faster than a man can run.
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When an old coach route from Lancaster to Kendal used to take a shortcut across the bay, several coaches were either overtaken by the tide or sucked under in quicksand.
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We'd go on, but disputing these petty points is the quicksand of journalism.
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Born with a legal claim to honour and to affluence, he was, in two months, illegitimated by the parliament, and disowned by his mother, doomed to poverty and obscurity, and launched upon the ocean of life, only that he might be swallowed by its quicksands, or dashed upon its rocks.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
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With its quicksands the river usually drowns a few unwary visitors every season.
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Broad expanses of open sand undulate, sweeping up into steep mountains or falling off into lakes, ponds, and shallow quagmires of quicksand.
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The shoreline's surface was like quicksand, loose and soupy, making the going difficult.
CORMORANT
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Further to the east, the geopolitical quicksand is getting steadily oozier.
Kevin Phillips: What the Democrats and the Republicans Won't Talk About: Defeat in the "Greater Mideast"
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Would Israel Defense Forces soldiers find themselves fighting on political quicksand?
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Right then was when I needed Eric Right then was when I needed somebody stronger than me to talk me through the coming quicksand hours.
ICED
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Some of these people make me think of someone who, while they are going down in quicksand, refuse the rope you throw them because it hurts their hands.
CNN Poll: Americans worry Obama health care plan will increase costs
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There is no doubt the playwright can turn a beautiful phrase, but By the Bog of Cats is so absorbed in its own desire to be lyrical and mysterious, it fails to notice that it is sinking into the quicksands of pretension.
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After Saturday's late disappointment left his team's tilt for the title threatening to sink into quicksand, the Arsenal manager, having
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If you're stuck in quicksand, frantic movements will only hurt your cause.
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With its quicksands the river usually drowns a few unwary visitors every season.
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With its quicksands the river usually drowns a few unwary visitors every season.
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There's no worse place on earth for quicksand and nobody can top my men for sand rescue.
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Okay, so the album's not a step forward so much as a squirm in quicksand.
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Our constitutional system, despite six major revisions, has apparently become trapped by a quicksand of confusion.
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Getting unstuck from quicksand is really a Vulcan-esque endeavor, requiring rationality, intelligence and emotional distance.
Boing Boing
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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
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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
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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
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With quicksand, the more you struggle in it the faster you will sink.
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Stay on the foreshore and do not go onto the sands - nobody knows where the quicksands are.
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It was the Nuggets who looked like they were stuck in quicksand by game's end.
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Why play four-four when your rhythm section could try to emulate the sound of a marching band skating on quicksand?
Man Alive by Everything Everything
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Toward the middle of her 1928 novel Quicksand, Nella Larsen thematizes her authorial relation to the literary past in a scene that uncannily adumbrates the future demise of her career.
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He could smell the swamp and its fetid odor of stagnant water, quicksand, dead garfish on the banks, and the mushrooms that burst into bloom off rotting tree trunks.
The Convict and Other Stories
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If you're out of work and find yourself sinking in financial quicksand, don't be too proud to yell for help.
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Undefined
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Well the quicksand phenom, is just about to take a new turn.
Religious right leaning toward Democrats?
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You're going to need to be patient; depending on how much quicksand is around you, it could take several minutes or even hours to slowly, methodically get yourself out.
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Queen Anne's commissioners were seriously concerned about foundations in Millbank's quicksands, calling repeatedly for reports from architects, surveyors and master tradesmen.
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The only person to come out well from the whole affair was Harold, who is portrayed on the Bayeux Tapestry rescuing some of William's men from the quicksands in front of Mont St. Michel.
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Morecambe Bay is notoriously dangerous, with fast rising tides and quicksands.
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Alito was treading carefully to avoid the same quicksand that dragged Miers down.
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With its quicksands the river usually drowns a few unwary visitors every season.
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All in all, the should-be 2 hour journey took us about 8 hours and included 2 taxis, 1 truck bed, 1 10km section on the back of motorcycles, 1 river forded, and one 500m long recently fallen mudslide with knee-deep quicksand-like mud crossed while mud and rocks continued to fall from above.
Life blurs in constant motion « Wanderings
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The sandbank was uncertain, like quicksand under his feet.
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Meaning that, under normal circumstances, a person in quicksand should really just bob around like buoy on the ocean.
Boing Boing
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Not everyone, however, is convinced, believing that while its achievement was considerable, latterly it was running into quicksand and was mired in dogma.
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His own transition came via the quicksand of television soap opera.
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Do this, and you're liable to end up thinking that quicksand is something that only happens in the jungle or the desert, and that the average patch has no discernible bottom.
Boing Boing
