“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.”

“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.”

“Look for wineberries in thickets, fields, edges of woods or trails, in moist soil throughout the northeast.”

“Spindle-thin trunks of Douglas fir and western larch stood in anemic, dying thickets, toppling like the flagpoles of small, failed nations.”

“They are abundant in early-successional shrub habitats and in salmonberry thickets.”