Thicket

//ˈθɪkɪt//

"Thicket" in a Sentence (13 examples)

The path stretching from that house to the bamboo thicket was laid with stone paving.

By chance, they heard some suspicious activity in the thicket which indicated that a bear also smelled their food.

From a thicket close by came three beautiful white swans, rustling their feathers, and swimming lightly over the smooth water.

One morning soon afterwards, pretending that she was going to visit a neighbour, she followed the young couple to the fields; and hiding herself in a thicket, that she herself might not be seen, she saw and heard all that passed between them.

Sami hid in a dense thicket.

It seemed inevitable that the father or daughter, or both, should have fallen victims to the impending danger, when a shot from the neighbouring thicket arrested the progress of the animal.

He might have supposed the bull had been arrested in its career by a thunderbolt, had he not observed among the branches of the thicket the figure of a man, with a short gun or musquetoon in his hand.

The Master wrapt himself in his cloak, made a haughty inclination toward Lucy, muttering a few words of courtesy, as indistinctly heard as they seemed to be reluctantly uttered, and, turning from them, was immediately lost in the thicket.

The tiger is hiding in a bamboo thicket.

We'll need to push our way through this thicket.

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Suddenly from a lumpy tussock of old grass some twenty yards in front of them, with black-tipped ears erect and long hinder limbs throwing it forward, started a hare. It bolted for a thicket of alders.

He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.

Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

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