Quicksand

If you find yourself in quicksand you'll sink more slowly if you don't move.

Tom pulled Mary out of the quicksand.

Tom could talk his way out of quicksand.

The tenacious depths of the quicksand, as is usual in such cases, retained its prey.

Yanni's house is built on quicksand.

So Jerry kept getting deeper and deeper into his predicament, like a man in quicksand.

I stepped into quicksand.

I'm stuck in quicksand. Help!

My feet were firmly lodged in the quicksand, and the more I struggled the more I sank into it.

the quicksands of youth