Definition of thicket
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Examples of thicket in a Sentence
a dense thicket of rosebushes
flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows
Recent Examples of thicket from the Web
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A Long-eared owl peeps, wide-eyed, through a thicket.
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Mistakes may be made along the way, but that’s inevitable: cutting a new course through a thicket spiky with thorns can’t help but draw blood.
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But so far, China’s foray into the mistrustful thicket of Afghan-Pakistan relations appears to have been low-key and helpful.
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There aren’t many tools that can hack through the political and financial red tape required, and that thicket has become even denser in today’s increasingly partisan and polarized political climate.
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Their nests can appear as little more than a dead patch of grass in an otherwise green yard, or as a dense clump of grass, brush pile or thicket in or around a garden, typically in proximity to shedded rabbit hair.
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Upstream, in Ponderosa Gorge, where the lush mountain river transitions to a red-walled desert canyon, impassable alder thickets guard the banks.
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The sound frequencies themselves are generated by a small thicket of transducers deep in the ship.
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Their waterfront houses 10 miles southwest of Fredericksburg, Va. are about 300 feet apart, divided by a thicket of woods so dense that the dwellings and the border between the properties all but disappear in the summer foliage.
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Origin and Etymology of thicket
Middle English *thikket, from Old English thiccet, from thicce thick
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THICKET Defined for English Language Learners
thicket
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: a group of bushes or small trees that grow close together
THICKET Defined for Kids
thicket
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: a thick usually small patch of bushes or low trees
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