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• Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket.From the entry open
• The deer darted from the thicket.From the entry dart
• He slithers like a limbo dancer under alder thickets girding the cliff faces.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic. From the entry gird
• Our favorite writers can lead us into ideological brier patches and ethical thickets.2016 February 28, A.O. Scott, “In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump”, in The New…. From the entry briar-patch
• To her, the ethical thicket consists of "frontsies and backsies," a phenomenon she noticed in kindergarten.1988, William L. Rivers, Cleve Mathews, Ethics for the media, page 45. From the entry backsie
• Fortunately we're out of that thicket for now, but only in a hackish sort of way.1982 November 30, Stuart, “Re: New proposal for handling net traffi - (nf)”, in net.news (Usenet), retrieved 15 Dec 2016, message-ID…. From the entry hackish
• He crossed the douit and forced his way into the thicket.1965, John Christopher, A Wrinkle in the Skin. From the entry douit
• Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused.1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies. From the entry refocus
• Escaped from thicket and from fen at last he saw the tilth of men.1945, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, HarperCollins, published 2019, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry tilth
• Some of the peasants escaped the massacre and were hiding in the thickets.1938, Robert Ervin Howard, chapter 1, in (Black Vulmea's Vengeance). From the entry Irishry
• He taken out through the bresh and thickets, yelpin’ and hollerin’ and hoppin’ most bodacious.1935 October, Robert E. Howard, “The Riot at Cougar Paw”, in Action Stories. From the entry bodacious
• And suddenly he found himself pushing head foremost into a hedgelike thicket of brush and stopped weakly.1920, Henry Oyen, The Plunderer. From the entry hedgelike
• Cope presently found himself scuffling through the thin grass and the briery thickets alongside the young business-man.1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope at His House Party”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The…. From the entry scuffle
• To add insult to injury it carried a small thicket of railway signals as well as regular steam trains.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry add insult to injury
• A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow.2011 May 28, Jim Perrin, The Guardian. From the entry riparian
• Their bootprints turned to face the thicket of briar and bramble in exactly the same place mine had.2009 February 11, Paul Evans, “Country diary”, in The Guardian. From the entry bootprint
• There were assorted trees growing in it, some forming thickets and thinnets, and a number of tents and ramshackle small buildings.2007, Piers Anthony, Stork Naked, page 278. From the entry thinnet
• The police trotted out there, amid juazeiro trees with sharp-edged branches and thickets of velame that irritated their skins.1984, Helen R. Lane, transl., The War of the End of the World, London: Folio Society, translation of La guerra del fin del mundo by Mario…. From the entry juazeiro
• Open, damp to dryish sites: borders of woods, thickets.1960, D.S. Erskine, The Plants of Prince Edward Island, Canada Department of Agriculture, page 244. From the entry yellowweed
• The lissom birch thrives ungarnered in the thicket, where grace and gentleness supply the whilom vigor of its sway.1913, John H. Stapleton, Explanation of Catholic Morals. From the entry ungarnered
• The sage and thickets of oak and brakes of alder gave place to piñon pine growing out of rocky soil.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC. From the entry piñon pine
• The fifty villagers of Tongguzbasti ("The invading boar") live in a thicket behind a stockade which protects them from the wind and sand.2004, Christian Tyler, “Separate Tables”, in Wild West China: The Taming of Xinjiang (History/Asia), New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University…. From the entry Tongguzbasti
• She stops the car by an ochre-coloured bach at the end of the beachline, by the shelter of a massive thicket of African thorn.1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 163. From the entry bach
• The large swamps of the Nile delta with their thickets of lotus, papyros and reed, were favourite hunting grounds in Ancient Egypt.1980, Erich Hobusch, Fair Game: A History of Hunting, Shooting, and Animal Conservation, Arco Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 45. From the entry papyros
• For artists their work objectifies their yearning for love, "thatched" as we all are "in a thicket of loneliness, huddled in onlyhood."1963, The Critic - Volume 21, Issue 4. From the entry onlyhood
• He run in a circle, too, for in three minutes he come bellerin’ back, gave one last hop and dove back into the thicket.1935 October, Robert E. Howard, “The Riot at Cougar Paw”, in Action Stories. From the entry bodacious
• He razored his lip and chin as well, but kept his side-whiskers, two great thickets of wiry golden hair that covered most of his cheeks from ear to jaw.1996, George R. R. Martin, “Tyrion”, in A Game of Thrones, New York: Bantam, published 2016, page 641. From the entry razor
• He generally spoke without academic mannerism, though on occasion he dipped into the over-wrought thickets of eduspeak to find words like “antithetical” or “foci” or “interface.”1992, C Fraser Smith, Lenny, Lefty, and the Chancellor. From the entry mannerism
• Always, always look in the darkest thickets for the boundlings, a curious myth in which babies are rescued from their light covering of troubles if found in time.1991, Douglas Oliver, Three variations on the theme of harm. From the entry boundling
• The safest cover lay close under the wall of the cañon, and here through the dense thickets Venters made his slow, listening advance toward the oval.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC. From the entry listening
• In thickets and woods, Wisteria floribunda is a common native there and is about to reach its flowering peak, filling its glades with that characteristic fruity, tuberose, mildly camphory scent.2012 May 24, Sarah Raven, “Wonderful Wisteria”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry camphory
• Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings.1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit. From the entry bygone

Meaning of thicket

1. noun A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
2. noun A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
3. noun The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.

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Questions about thicket in a sentence

How do you use thicket in a sentence?

Thicket is used as a noun. For example: “He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.”

What is a short sentence with thicket?

“The deer darted from the thicket.”

What does thicket mean?

Thicket means a dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.