QUICKSILVER


Meaning of QUICKSILVER in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Hunt, the team's quicksilver guard, slipped in and made the basket.

the quicksilver beauty of Khan's singing

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Beckett's playing is all quicksilver and lyricism with an often sardonic edge.

His eyes had lost their quicksilver fear.

In fact, its core is crystal, shining night and day, veined with quicksilver and gold.

It wriggled and squirmed like quicksilver and, apart from that, the box was only just long enough to take it.

The essential Gielgud was all quicksilver intelligence.

The old man was a cracked leather bottle trying to contain quicksilver .

The tar on the roads glistened like liquid quicksilver .

Under that flippant attitude he liked to show at Park Crescent was a mind like quicksilver .

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