How to Use thicket in a Sentence

thicket

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Search and rescue crews wade through the thicket, scattered with debris and plane parts.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Hayes left the roadway westbound at Flower Hill Way, where the fire truck wrecked in a thicket about a quarter mile from the road.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2022
  • When Viktor’s infantry unit first arrived here, thickets of oak and birch trees lined the grassy fields.
    — Mari Saito, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024
  • From behind the branches of a thicket, a deer stared at me, unmoving.
    — Tucker Nichols, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Its sparse plant life consists of scraggly shrubs and pines, along with thickets of poison oak.
    — Heather Knight, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • On the afternoon return to the Les Cayes airport, Siem’s rented car breaks down in a thicket near a bridge.
    — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Deer tend to rest in tall grass and thickets to preserve energy and hide from predators.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The Western saw-whet owl likes a twelve-year-old thicket of fir and ponderosa pine; deer find soft green bites in a four-year-old stand of red cedar and white pine.
    — The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Woodcock can also be found mixed in with ruffed grouse in aspen stands and thickets of dogwood and hawthorn.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • And Garden-Monheit said the agency is poised to look at other types of patents that may be invalid, which pile up to add to the thicket.
    — Elisabeth Rosenthal, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024

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