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
Examples of thicket in a Sentence
a dense thicket of rosebushes
flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows
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Cerys Jones, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
As the narrator, a professor separated from his wife, obsessively researches the death, his investigation fuels his parenting and relationship woes and leads him into a thicket of conspiracy theories.
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With deer lying tight in the thickets along the streams, stalking mistakes would be easy to make.
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Cerys Jones, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
As the narrator, a professor separated from his wife, obsessively researches the death, his investigation fuels his parenting and relationship woes and leads him into a thicket of conspiracy theories.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
With deer lying tight in the thickets along the streams, stalking mistakes would be easy to make.
—Jim Moore, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
The entire property bursts with thickets of shaggy palm trees, enormous birds of paradise, and other tropical plants.
—Sarah Buder, AFAR Media, 8 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for thicket
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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thicket. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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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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