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Origin of thick register

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby thick register

thickleaf, thick milk, thickness, thickness piece, thicko, thick register, thickset, thick skin, thick-skinned, thick-skulled, thick-tailed ray

How to use thick register in a sentence

But the people from Valley Stream had such a thick New York accent that was all around me.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Annie Lee Cooper, well played by Winfrey, is shown trying but failing to register to vote.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’|Gary May|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Many dance instructors register their classes at gyms and teach women or men (separately) under the name of aerobics.
Iran’s Becoming a Footloose Nation as Dance Lessons Spread|IranWire|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Nor are we told that she lost her job at a local nursing home after she tried to register to vote in 1964.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’|Gary May|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

“They refused to register a case, saying the matter is out of their hands,” he told me.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan|Umar Farooq|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We stumbled along, close up, for the thick-piled clouds still hung their light-obscuring banners over the sky.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
The eyebrows were low and thick, the upper lip was sensitive, quivering sometimes as she talked, but the lower was firm and full.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Cystin crystals are colorless, highly refractive, rather thick, hexagonal plates with well-defined edges.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
In a voice thick with the torturing rage of impotence he gave the order upon which the grim Parisian insisted.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
She locks the door behind them, and throws the key among the nettles that grew in a thick grove at her right.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu