thicket
Example Sentences
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When we reach the bluff, Babs points to a patch of dense thickets surrounding its base.
From Literature
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Along a remote stretch of the north Somerset coast, views of rolling hills and farmhouses are suddenly interrupted by a thicket of construction cranes.
From BBC
I whip around and run, fast and hard, through the trees, over rocks, through thickets of weeds.
From Literature
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Then brush, predominantly whitethorn and manzanita, interspersed in waist-high thickets.
From Los Angeles Times
To make this photo I crawled into a thicket of ferns at the Sunset Marquis Hotel.
From Los Angeles Times
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