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Sentence Examples A voluptuous black girl in leather and a thicket of beaded dreadlocks jumped in front of him and mirrored his strokes, his bumps and grinds. They suffer little from disease and spread by throwing up new suckers or shoots each year, forming a bristly, neat thicket. So he went to where a single blackthorn limb spired above a briary thicket, rayed with fine spikes. Lancaster drew rein, tethering his horse in the thicket of pine just off the crest of the hill. A winding road slopes downhill through a thicket of trees before looping once around a tiny manmade lake. She had a small house between the villages, on a small hill near a thicket of oak trees. The dense thicket of rules and exceptions will drive away, or drive mad, almost anyone else. Barely 20 feet below us was a dense thicket of bushes, and there the car lay on its side, undamaged. The owl soared downwards into the thicket of pine trees where its nest was. This study emerged from, and was carried out within, a dense thicket of contradictions. Medical technologies that offer new hope also lead to a bewildering thicket of options. When he looked up, he saw Kerna mocking him, imitating a woman drinking tea on the same log before the thicket. I knew that the bobwhite hustling toward a nearby thicket was going to be lunch long before I touched the trigger. She held a fig out in the palm of her hand, and the animal darted away and disappeared into the thicket. If you leave it unpruned you can get a huge unruly thicket within a few years. Our campsite is a sliver of sand bordered by a dense thicket of trees on one side and a river of gray unreflecting water on the other. Penn Common is a rolling meadow of tall bracken, moss and the odd thicket of birch trees. The names bracken and brake are sometimes also applied to other large, coarse ferns and, as general terms, to a thicket of such plants. I dove to my left again, and this time rolled into a somersault that landed me in a thicket of mountain laurel at the base of the ridge. Unfortunately, borrowers who take the time to read credit card agreements often finding themselves bushwhacking through a thicket of dense prose. Show More Sentences As I watch, it slips off the edge and rolls down the slope into a thicket of thorny bushes. Among the nearly 200 species found here are thicket tinamou, brown pelican, osprey, king vulture, and laughing gull. He escaped from the ship and hid in a thicket and then wandered into the forest where he found the hut of the swineherd. When she emerged from the thicket she saw a young girl, nothing more than a girl of fifteen, huddled up against the tree. Growing an impenetrable thicket is an alternative option that could blend in with the view beyond the boundary. The dogs cornered the bear in a thicket, and when it dashed for the water once more, the men fired and managed to kill it. As I strolled along a heavily used game trail, a covey of wild turkeys fled before me and hid in a thicket of wild roses. Where Lowell lived, this consisted of low-lying conifers, alders, and gorsy thicket. Regan walked through a thicket of trees and pushed a few branches away. The abandoned barracks of the Liberian Army lay just beyond in the tropical thicket. I did not catch those few roses because they were well hidden behind a thicket of thorns. I plunged off the summit back into the razor grass and crawled my way through the last two hundred feet of dense thicket back to the quarry and my car. The major populations of whitewoods can be found within the Diana's Peak National Park growing along side the dogwoods, black cabbages trees and tree fern thicket. She is an informative, analytically rigorous, yet always companionable and deeply humane guide through the moral thicket that is early 21st century assisted reproduction. Just so with Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, whose identity seems increasingly lost in a cyber thicket that no one can penetrate. A shrewder wordsmith might have better navigated the thicket of legislative traps during the Arizona debate. A canvas portrait of a woman with a Medusa-like thicket of hair shows a spray-paint can tucked decorously in her locks. The sea buckthorn Hippophae rhamnoides should not be planted on sand dunes as its vigorous suckers can reduce species rich dunes to an impenetrable thorny thicket. She screamed, wrenching a sizable twig out of her hair and hurling it at him, after disentangling herself from what must have been the twentieth or so bramble thicket. She continued till the path curved, where she did not follow it, and instead began to bushwhack through the small poplar trees and briar undergrowth of the Island thicket. Show More Sentences You strain to make this out through a thicket of orange loops that give a subtle texture and an unsubtle effervescence to the canvas, which looks ready to bounce off the wall. After a while, as we were arguing about the thicket, it occurred to us that all in the house save Arch and me had gone to bed. I shall not attempt to enter on the thorny thicket of Jacob Behmen's polemical and apologetical works. On this particular hunt I had my stand hung to let me watch a mountain laurel thicket on a ridge, as described above. It has to do with trying to negotiate through a thicket of lawsuits. Their bootprints turned to face the thicket of briar and bramble in exactly the same place mine had. The lissom birch thrives ungarnered in the thicket, where grace and gentleness supply the whilom vigor of its sway. The forest type was a simple microphyll vine-fern thicket, on a Leptosol formed on granite. Sports Illustrated sent Shrake down at his insistence to do a piece on the beautiful and haunting Big Thicket area of East Texas. And in this sort I found my selfe in a fresh shadowe, a coole ayre, and a solytarie thicket. Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket. For most of the year, there are more small birds in coastal thicket than in fynbos. Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused. A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow. 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. The black-tailed jackrabbit is distributed throughout most of Texas with the exception of the Big Thicket region of southeastern Texas. George Bernard Shaw the Grovy A shaw is a small thicket or grove. Examples from Classical Literature We began to think of halting for the night and bivouacking under the lee of some thicket. The trail led us, for the dozenth time, from the high grass into the thicket along the river. Impetuously the canoe swung to pass around a spit of land covered with a thicket of sweet bay. On the day of your lawn party, I chanced to see you behind a certain rose thicket, in conversation with Arch Brookhouse. I cast around the thicket with my sense of perception and caught the layout. Molly, feeling a touch of rheumatism, was somewhere in the lower thicket seeking a teaberry tonic. Colin was standing in the midst of a blackthorn thicket when she reached him. Further converse was interrupted by the sudden bursting of a duiker, or large antelope, from a thicket close beside them. They leaped from their horses and plunged straightway into the thicket after Robin. Here there was a spring, a thicket of manzanita, and a small ruin of a house. So they all three went into a thicket of elderberry bushes and counted the money. To the left, a raggle-taggle thicket of beech brush crawled to within twenty feet of the valley's floor. A light gleamed and then glimmered in the midst of a thicket of tulipwood and magnolias. And now her senses began feebly to regather within truer limits and to tell her she was lying on the rooty ground of a thicket. He had lost track of his victim in the popple thicket, but had come across Kincaid's cap, which he had appropriated. But his companion had already vanished in the thicket with the undeliberate and impulsive act of an animal. A stealthy-footed, moon-faced, fierce-eyed beast came soundlessly to the edge of the thicket and glared in searchingly. He unstuck the snag from his shirt, pushed his way out of the thicket, and sat down weakly on the grass. Immediately flames leapt in great tongues from the brambly thicket beyond the reeds. A hundred feet to the left was a wild thicket of ground thorns, their needlelike tips bristling. Show More Sentences The girl started nervously as a night-owl hooted suddenly from a near-by thicket. I was working in my field, throwing out manure, when I saw the prisoner come out of the popple thicket on Pritchard's place. And crossing the gardens rapidly, he soon reached the outskirts of the brambly thicket. Magnificent vase-like clusters of the ostrich fern spread above our heads in the thicket along the river-shore. Two years later, and for the last time, Koolau crawled into a thicket and lay down among the ti-leaves and wild ginger blossoms. At the same time, a volley of imprecations came from the thicket on shore, from the angry owners of the oyster bed. Wood-choppers have been interrupted by the apparition of a huge, palmated head through a thicket. At the sound the rabbit sprang into the open and zigzagged toward a thicket. From a thicket, in utter darkness, Zorn and Larner and the two Belas waited for the possible catch. The sound came from the further corner of the deserted quarry, where a crest of soft and shingly rock overhung a briary thicket. The enemy, seeing it all through the thicket, were confirmed in their fears of an ambuscade. Floating in nebulous masses about the blackberry thicket, the delicately conspicuous hue of the fireweed catches the eye. As soon as they had gone out of my hearing I emerged from the brier thicket. The red-bird flutters lower down in the coppice of green pawpaws, or amidst the amber leaflets of the beechen thicket. But she still bore that heathen name, which she had received in the reedy thicket. In his eyes was the vision of nest and mate, where the serviceberry thicket grew by the wide sub-arctic waters. Trees were small in this part of the woods, with a well developed understory thicket of coralberry and sumac. Lying full length in a wet thicket he saw a party of about twenty warriors-Mohawks he took them to be-in an oak opening. Taking the haversack, he left the thicket and went back to the brink of Chickahominy. He rested the better for it during the early part of that night in a haw thicket. Show More Sentences A bilberry thicket straggled down to the opposite bank of the stream on both sides of the road. The whoot, whoot, whoot of the crow-pheasant booms from almost every thicket. Smoky Delbert, always the poacher, had known of the beech thicket and the trail through it. No break occurred, and presently I was stopped by a dense thicket of bushes. Folk said she snared birds and rabbits, in the thicket that came down to her hovel. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a jungle, close about the door. You could see that the puma had leaped upon the huemul from a neighbouring thicket, and there had been a struggle. Yet from this mysterious thicket had hurtled that boulder, swift and deadly. Just at dawn, in a dew-drenched thicket of spirea, I found three nests not six feet apart. We had tethered our horses in a thicket of scrub oak where they would be out of bullet-reach until the enemy gained the bank. Davidson's men were between us and the scrub oak thicket, and we must wait till the column swept by. It was not another nightingale as I at first thought, but Imperia's voice from the laurel thicket mocking the melody. I remembered that there was a pawpaw thicket near this place. We camped in a thicket, without water, on a small patch of feed. There was a coralberry thicket beneath the trees on the adjacent hilltop. Some miles from the county seat they stopped in a thicket on a farm. Off they scudded and took refuge in a thicket of half-burnt pines. The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the thicket like a wild animal, had seemed to him to pre-figure death for himself also. On some trees in exposed locales, the leeward thicket can extend 20 feet from the trunk of the tree. But what is the edging of blacker smoke that hangs along its lower side, and which you may trace down into the thicket of hazel? Show More Sentences It was a dense thicket, in which rose huge cypresses, sycamores, tulip-trees, olives, tamarinds, oaks, and magnolias. And he took the Sheriff's horse by the bridle rein, and led him through the lane and by many a thicket till the main road was reached. The thicket, before so formidable, amounted to nothing at all. So together we got the gauger into a little thicket or planting. Soon we could hear their footfalls as they ran and the cracking of the branches as they breasted across a bit of thicket. The hog had now buried itself in the middle of a cabbage palm thicket, hunkered down. The dogs started a hare, and pursued it into a dense thicket. Instead, he must skulk in the thicket like a coyote until the man passed. They skulked along the watercourse and at the edge of the thicket. And that slab-sided Peters says he saw you turn into the thicket. G going into bivouac in a dense pine thicket on the hights beyond. They were charming up there, huddled together in the cart and peering down at me like curious deer when they come out of the thicket to drink. Their shape was very singular and deformed, which a little discomposed me, so that I lay down behind a thicket to observe them better. An arrowweed thicket had struggled up from a jutting spar of rock. What a labyrinthine thicket Is this place that I have entered! Then he unbuckled his scabbard, laid it and the sword aside, and walked deliberately over to the oak thicket. It rose with terrible distinctness from the thicket close before us. Is it in the glade or the thicket, or on the margent of the rill? Here and there, in the midst of the thicket, severe small oak trees and other small trees of which Saxon did not know the names. The bulls were turned, to the right this time, and crashed into the standing thicket. Show More Sentences And in a thicket, new-born, wet with moisture of birth, lay a day-old calf of the herd whose mother had died. The whole party moved in a body into the thicket of waxen stalks. Thanks to this thicket of pikes and arquebuses, the parvis was empty. As I approached the pawpaw thicket, I walked with lighter tread. The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him, ready for his leap. The thicket near the rancho rustled and shook, and Pepe appeared. They left the horses standing untethered, and she led her lover into the cool recesses of the thicket to where crystal water bubbled from out the base of the mountain. This guide was our friend Peppino, who dashed into the thicket of high weeds, through a path which none but lizards or polecats could have imagined to be an open road. At last she got away, and did not stop in her retreat till she was in the thicket of pollard willows at the lower side of the barton, where she could be quite unseen. He paused and turned his head quickly toward a thicket, and then bent his eyes suspiciously on their guide, who continued his steady pace, in undisturbed gravity. At last a nightingale, lost in a thicket of shrubs, in the midst of its most melodious cadences had fluted low and lower into stillness and fallen asleep. Each distant thicket seemed a strange porcupine with quills of flame. With these words she disappeared, and hardly had she done so than a huge wild boar started out of the thicket near and made straight for the Prince. A little to one side of the ford in the densest thicket he heard the faint sound of padded feet, and the brushing of a huge body against tall grasses and tangled creepers. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of thicket? Words that rhyme with thicket What is the plural of thicket? What is the adjective for thicket? What is the noun for thicket? Translations for thicket Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words thickest thicker thickens thickening thickener thickened thickets thick foliage thick hair thickhead thickheaded thick-headed 7-letter Words Starting With t th thi thic thick thicke