0 deep wet sand that sucks in anyone trying to walk across it, or an area of sand like this:
It took 50 rescuers two hours to free a runner who got stuck in quicksand.
Surveys had failed to reveal stretches of quicksand and deep clay.
The country had managed to extract itself from the quicksand at last.
I seemed to be floundering deeper and deeper into the most lethal of social quicksands .
1 a mass of wet sand into which people and objects can sink
Are there not lions and tigers and poisonous snakes and quicksand and other hazards?
Building a recovery on leverage is like building your new home on quicksand.
The cockles are in an area between two channels, one of them notorious for quicksands.
They were never going to make any progress while running in quicksand.
I cashed my check without guilt, but was mired in the quicksand of middle age and unfulfilled potential.
Like stepping into quicksand, often walkers do not realize that a surface is slippery until they have already stepped onto it.
It does include some eccentricities, most notable of which is a detailed set of instructions of how to get out of quicksand!
You can only jump out of quicksands when there is a springboard which is sufficiently strong and resilient to enable you to make that leap.
