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thick

adjective as in deep, bulky

adjective as in dense (referring to weather)

adjective as in friendly

adjective as in unreasonable

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Example Sentences

Fans generally believe that the ideal oat porridge should be thick enough to offer some resistance, but smooth enough to go down easily.

From Eater

We’re moving away from the convention period of the race and into the thick of the election.

Then we woke up with its thick, hot smoke upon us and realized it was smothering our lives.

The wheels are 200 millimeters thick, and can maintain great speed and a smooth ride over almost any city street or sidewalk.

A slimmer knife will be more comfortable to carry than a thicker one.

But the people from Valley Stream had such a thick New York accent that was all around me.

His chin rested on the thick plastic collar buckled around his neck.

At the highest navigable point of the Congo River, thick jungle creates an impenetrable wall of green around a large island.

Small rooms off its graffiti-covered foyer provide shelter from the thick rain that can unexpectedly, and vengefully, hit.

The Barclays Center where the Duke and Duchess will be seated would have stood in thick of where the pivotal action transpired.

We stumbled along, close up, for the thick-piled clouds still hung their light-obscuring banners over the sky.

The eyebrows were low and thick, the upper lip was sensitive, quivering sometimes as she talked, but the lower was firm and full.

Cystin crystals are colorless, highly refractive, rather thick, hexagonal plates with well-defined edges.

In a voice thick with the torturing rage of impotence he gave the order upon which the grim Parisian insisted.

She locks the door behind them, and throws the key among the nettles that grew in a thick grove at her right.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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