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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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 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 game started under a thicket of silver and gray clouds.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Several of the bodies were found in thickets along a sandy stretch known as Gilgo Beach.
  — Michael Balsamo and Jake Offenhartz, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
• Instead, zig toward the most promising tangle or thicket in front of you, then zag to the next.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
• From across the desolate country road amid a dense thicket of alders came the telltale sounds of a buck fight.
  — Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 29 Jan. 2020
• Search and rescue crews wade through the thicket, scattered with debris and plane parts.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
• The idyllic Wonderland trail takes you through thickets of wild roses and pops out on the ocean.
  — Lani Furbank, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
• That means patches of low-lying shrubs and some thickets of trees will remain when the job wraps up next year.
  — Matthew Brown and Christina Larson, SFChronicle.com, 14 Dec. 2019
• The area sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and the Currituck Sound is packed with maritime forests, sand dunes, and shrub thickets, all untouched, all wild, and all waiting patiently for visitors to explore.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 26 July 2024
• These early modern thinkers and tinkerers were trying to wrest rationality out of a thicket of mysticism.
  — Margaret O’Mara, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024