Definition of Quicksand

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Quicksand

Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.

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Quicksand Quotations

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.
Steven Wright

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
John Updike

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand

I worship the quicksand he walks in.
Art Buchwald

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
Rose Wilder Lane

If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.
Richard Shelby

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More

Quicksand Translations

quicksand in Dutch is drijfzand
quicksand in German is Triebsand, Treibsand
quicksand in Spanish is arena movediza
quicksand in Swedish is kvicksand

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