thicket
noun
a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.
thickets
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pluralof thicket.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The camera tracks the characters with startling skill and speed, from above, below, alongside and even behind as they rush through groves and thickets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Pygmy slow loris are a species of primate that comes from the rainforests and bamboo thickets of Vietnam, Laos, eastern Cambodia and southern China.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
Traveling along the Paraná, Darwin observed thickets which “afford a retreat for capybaras and jaguars. The fear of the latter animal quite destroyed all pleasure in scrambling through the woods.”
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2024
Love him or hate him — and there’s little in between — they have long considered him an escape artist through career-spanning thickets of legal, business and political thorns.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
He trotted her west, across the grassy flat toward the cerros, gently rounded hills of dark lava rock which were covered with a thin crust of topsoil and grass, edged with thickets of scrub oak.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
