noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dense
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Even after they have dropped, they are valuable, lying in a blood-red pool under the dense thicket of branches.
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The Fallen Road development used to be a thick pine woods with small scrub oak and dense thickets of cabbage palm.
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A lion roars in the dense thicket into which the watercourse runs.
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Over the millennia it has come to be surrounded by a dense thicket of folklore.
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If it had been carved to life all the detail would have disappeared in a dense and unreadable thicket of vegetation.
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Nightingales appreciate an open tree canopy with plenty of dense undergrowth and thicket below to provide nesting sites and shelter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As I drew close they both bolted, crashing loudly through the alder thicket .
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Even after they have dropped, they are valuable, lying in a blood-red pool under the dense thicket of branches.
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He was working in a thicket of briar, elder and dead wood from a fallen tree.
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Heavy-eyed, Mungo had fallen asleep and into a thicket of dreams.
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Hissing shells searched the dark thickets through, and shrapnel swept the road along which we moved.
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Malcolm Forbes spent a couple of decades in the thickets of New Jersey politics and nearly became governor in the 1950s.
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The thicket quivered, then moved.