How to Use thicket in a Sentence

thicket

noun

• In the years since the lake drained, a dense thicket of brush and trees has taken over the lake bed.
  — Josh Baugh, ExpressNews.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• From a treestand, Young called to the buck with a grunt tube, and the deer emerged from a thicket and closed to 30 yards.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 1 Jan. 2021
• White and the child were found in a thicket just over one hour later.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 23 Aug. 2019
• Wedged into the crevices of each grade of rock are tiny thickets of green and black life.
  — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
• The buck stepped out of the thicket and offered him a broadside shot at 12 yards.
  — Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2023
• The lodge had two floors, made of wood and stone, and was tucked away in a thicket of guava trees.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• Builds cup nest in dense shrub, small tree or vine thicket.
  — Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
• Under a thicket of cranes, the very face of Paris was changing.
  — Tom Sancton, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2022
• The name of the 135-page thicket of tables and diagrams?
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2021
• The ancient Egyptians took cats on their boats to catch birds in the thickets of the Nile River.
  — Bethany Ao, Philly.com, 25 May 2018
• The city’s wild thicket of street vendors serves as the setting for the show’s central tragedy.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
• Dense thickets of thorny branches slashed their arms and legs.
  — Lauren Markham, The New Republic, 26 Feb. 2018
• The Windy City is, after all, a thicket of mighty high-rises.
  — Peter Terzian, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
• To listen to the music of Michael Jackson in the year 2021 is to enter a moral thicket.
  — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2021
• An hour before dark, the black forms of two boars—perhaps 100 pounds apiece—flash through the thicket.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 2 Mar. 2021
• Leopards, bears, and blackbucks lurk in the dense thickets.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 15 May 2019
• Branches popped, cracked, and shattered in the thicket.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 16 Aug. 2022
• Framed by two trickling creeks and a thicket of trees, the course is a picturesque swath of green a short walk from Main Street.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2022
• Images of the bus accident show the vehicle in the midst of a thicket of trees.
  — Laura Studley and Amir Vera, CNN, 19 Sep. 2021
• Tight-jawed and drawn, he is enveloped by a thicket of reporters.
  — Rob Hodgetts At Longchamp, CNN, 15 Oct. 2019
• One way to cut through the thicket is to consult with a fee-only planner.
  — Chris Farrell, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• On the shore of Tiger Lake, cows crowd into a thicket of live oaks, seeking relief from the hot sun.
  — Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2021
• The other side of the Black River from the base camps is a thicket of woods without campgrounds or trails.
  — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 2018
• The buck took off into a thicket bordering the food plot.
  — Outdoor Life, 27 Sep. 2023
• Lawyers on both sides are readying for a thicket of last-minute challenges.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
• Keep an eye out for a wooden lean-to and fire pit hidden in a thicket about a tenth of a mile from the parking lot.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 July 2021
• The sound was coming from a speaker hidden in a thicket.
  — Sara Benincasa, Longreads, 22 June 2018
• The game started under a thicket of silver and gray clouds.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Other versions portray the Higgs field as akin to molasses, a thicket, a crowd of people or an expanse of snow.
  — Matt Strassler, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
• Kimmy towels off, changes into shorts and a long-sleeve shirt, and before long is bounding into the thickets on the south side of the lake, following an overgrown trail.
  — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 24 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024