in the thick of

idiom

: in the most active or intense part of (something)

a soldier in the thick of battle

Examples of in the thick of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Parks forces the audience to contemplate how intimacy takes root in the thick of injustice. —Imani Perry Janina Edwards Krish Seenivasan Devin Murphy, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024

Human resources need to be in the thick of it, understand the business, the product, and all the services, offerings, and components, and then utilize that knowledge in managing the company’s human capital. —William Mullane, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024

Green was in the thick of it, carrying the Warriors on both ends. —Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024

There’s the first-time Super Bowl attendee who’d never been to a NFL match in her life — and who watched the Big Game in the thick of the pandemic. —Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024

In the years that followed, McKinley was in the thick of the chaos at the state’s marijuana coordination office, dodging and weaving as a new industry took form and regulations were put in place. —John Aguilar, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024

The quarterback — who is consensus top-five prospect at his position — is in the thick of the group waiting to run in front of NFL decision-makers. —Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 29 Mar. 2024

Corporate earnings have been robust, the stock market continues to break record after record and America might be in the thick of a productivity boom that could boost growth without stoking inflation. —Bryan Mena, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024

For gay audiences, his existence, rarely in the thick of the action but rather just next door to it, offered, at its best, a brief glimpse into a universe of possibilities — a universe that mainstream culture was still unwilling to enter more immersively. —Mark Harris Rf. Alvarez, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024