How to Use thicket in a Sentence

thicket

noun
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  • In the years since the lake drained, a dense thicket of brush and trees has taken over the lake bed.
    — Josh Baugh, ExpressNews.com, 13 Oct. 2019
  • From a treestand, Young called to the buck with a grunt tube, and the deer emerged from a thicket and closed to 30 yards.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 1 Jan. 2021
  • White and the child were found in a thicket just over one hour later.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Wedged into the crevices of each grade of rock are tiny thickets of green and black life.
    — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • The buck stepped out of the thicket and offered him a broadside shot at 12 yards.
    — Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The lodge had two floors, made of wood and stone, and was tucked away in a thicket of guava trees.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Builds cup nest in dense shrub, small tree or vine thicket.
    — Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
  • Under a thicket of cranes, the very face of Paris was changing.
    — Tom Sancton, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The name of the 135-page thicket of tables and diagrams?
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2021
  • The city’s wild thicket of street vendors serves as the setting for the show’s central tragedy.
    — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
  • The Windy City is, after all, a thicket of mighty high-rises.
    — Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
  • To listen to the music of Michael Jackson in the year 2021 is to enter a moral thicket.
    — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2021
  • An hour before dark, the black forms of two boars—perhaps 100 pounds apiece—flash through the thicket.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Leopards, bears, and blackbucks lurk in the dense thickets.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 15 May 2019
  • Branches popped, cracked, and shattered in the thicket.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Framed by two trickling creeks and a thicket of trees, the course is a picturesque swath of green a short walk from Main Street.
    — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2022
  • Images of the bus accident show the vehicle in the midst of a thicket of trees.
    — Laura Studley and Amir Vera, CNN, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Tight-jawed and drawn, he is enveloped by a thicket of reporters.
    — Rob Hodgetts At Longchamp, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
  • One way to cut through the thicket is to consult with a fee-only planner.
    — Chris Farrell, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • On the shore of Tiger Lake, cows crowd into a thicket of live oaks, seeking relief from the hot sun.
    — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2021
  • The buck took off into a thicket bordering the food plot.
    — Outdoor Life, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Lawyers on both sides are readying for a thicket of last-minute challenges.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Keep an eye out for a wooden lean-to and fire pit hidden in a thicket about a tenth of a mile from the parking lot.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 July 2021
  • The sound was coming from a speaker hidden in a thicket.
    — Sara Benincasa, Longreads, 22 June 2018
  • The game started under a thicket of silver and gray clouds.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Several of the bodies were found in thickets along a sandy stretch known as Gilgo Beach.
    — Michael Balsamo and Jake Offenhartz, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
  • Though difficult to locate in the midst of bears and a thicket of mosquitos, the find was worth it.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2018
  • Instead, zig toward the most promising tangle or thicket in front of you, then zag to the next.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Three years ago, the county created a team to bushwhack through a thicket of bureaucracy to get the jail closed and the inmates diverted.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Shrubs can produce suckers and slowly spread into a thicket, but they are easily pruned to prevent this.
    — Rebecca Bull Reed, Southern Living, 10 June 2024

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