thickets
- plural of thicket.
Example Sentences
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Moreover, “Anemone” teasingly delves into a paternal legacy— the price sons pay for inheriting their fathers’ flaws—as it considers the moral thickets of Britain’s late-20th-century history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 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
The thickets of ironwood and sentinel and oak that had once grown there had been harvested centuries ago, to create a broad swath of open ground through which no enemy could hope to pass unseen.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
