thick with
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It’s a personal book, thick with narrative and recollection and, unsurprisingly, a pleasure to cook from.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Piles of belongings and rotting food covered the bed and the air was thick with flies.
From Barron's • Nov. 2, 2025
Especially when that dead end is surrounded by crashing surf on empty beaches, dramatic cliffs and lonely trails through forests thick with redwoods.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025
His memo was so thick with lies that it would take a week to debunk them all.
From Salon • Oct. 22, 2025
Her throat felt thick with a wish to say, simply, “You” but she said, “Mark Twain.”
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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