1
: a dense growth of shrubbery or small trees : copse
2
: something resembling a thicket in density or impenetrability : tangle
a political thicket
a thicket of reporters
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Examples of thicket in a Sentence
a dense thicket of rosebushes
flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows
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Young oaks create an understory that turns colorful in autumn, thickets of wild rose line the trail with carpets of fleabane and yarrow.
Pinetop Springs forms another marshy area near the halfway point of the hike.
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
Day 1 Morning and afternoon Wake up well before dawn and make your way through a thicket of forests buzzing with cicadas to view the beautiful spectacle of daybreak lighting up the skies above the corn-cob spires of Angkor Wat.
—Chaitali Patel, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2024
Beyond the thickets of trees, where birds sheltered from the rain, lay mud huts built by Mackenzie’s followers.
—Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
When the target, a Hezbollah operative, climbed out and fled into a roadside thicket, a second missile finished the job.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
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Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024
Day 1 Morning and afternoon Wake up well before dawn and make your way through a thicket of forests buzzing with cicadas to view the beautiful spectacle of daybreak lighting up the skies above the corn-cob spires of Angkor Wat.
—Chaitali Patel, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2024
Beyond the thickets of trees, where birds sheltered from the rain, lay mud huts built by Mackenzie’s followers.
—Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
When the target, a Hezbollah operative, climbed out and fled into a roadside thicket, a second missile finished the job.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thicket. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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thicket
noun
thick·et
ˈthik-ət 
1
: a thick usually small patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
2
: something resembling a thicket in being crowded together or impenetrable
a thicket of fans
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