Thickets is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Thickets meaning
plural of thicket
Using Thickets
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of thicket
- In the example corpus, thickets often appears in combinations such as: thickets and, thickets of, and thickets.
Context around Thickets
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thickets
- In this selection, "thickets" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nearby, dense, verdant, punctuated and lying stand out and add context to how "thickets" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and alder thickets punctuated by and and low thickets a creeping. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thickets" sits close to words such as aarons, abra and accelerations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thickets
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Once established, it can form impenetrable thickets. (7 words)
The stream widens into marshes and alder thickets, punctuated by emphatic beaver dams and lodges. (15 words)
Rather, he was directed to sacrifice instead a nearby ram that was stuck in thickets. (15 words)
Down the road from where Reed lives lies New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, a hiker’s paradise of evergreen thickets and snow-capped lakes where young white voters make up about a quarter of the electorate, compared to 21 percent nationally. (42 words)
In particular, early Aborigines are thought to have been fire-stick farmers using fire regularly and persistently to drive game, open up dense thickets of vegetation, and create fresh green regrowth for both humans and game animals to eat. (39 words)
Shisou(Thickets of Poetic Criticism) Li Bai especially excelled in the Gushi form, or "old style" poems, a type of poetry allowing a great deal of freedom in terms of the form and content of the work. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
In Texas, their habitat is mainly dense chaparral brush and they den in caves, hollow trees, and thickets, so they’re difficult to find.
The now-quenched soil breathes life back into the bushland as clumps of millet and sorghum spring up just about everywhere, transforming parched savannahs into verdant thickets.
The stream widens into marshes and alder thickets, punctuated by emphatic beaver dams and lodges.
Numerous other predators, such as the lions, cheetahs, and hyenas, gather around nearby thickets, lying in wait of the crossing grazers.
Pouncing on her, he dragged her into nearby thickets and reportedly outraged her modesty, after gagging her.
They fully realized that mangroves form low-lying thickets that hug the shore and protect coastal areas from storms, hurricanes typhoons and storm surges in tropical regions around the world.
Once established, it can form impenetrable thickets.
Down the road from where Reed lives lies New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, a hiker’s paradise of evergreen thickets and snow-capped lakes where young white voters make up about a quarter of the electorate, compared to 21 percent nationally.
Federal officials said Noman’s offers ideal habitat for New England cottontails, which live in dense thickets found in young forests or shrubland.
I was alone when I ducked under a fallen tree to take a well-used shortcut called “the swoop,” a thin, tangled thread of a trail dropping fast through thorny thickets and trees.
Some of them come with wounds because they pass through thickets that scratch and tear their bodies.
Soon a small army of volunteers arrived as well, though not all were up to the task of stomping through muddy thickets in the February cold.
While Amazon has terrified whole industry segments when it targets them, finance is thought to be relatively protected by thickets of regulation.
Dense submarine thickets of long-stemmed crinoids appear to have flourished in shallow seas, and their remains were consolidated into thick beds of rock.
During Sachet's visit in 1958, the vegetation was found to consist of a sparse cover of spiny grass and low thickets, a creeping plant ( Ipomoea sp.), and stands of coconut palm.
In particular, early Aborigines are thought to have been fire-stick farmers using fire regularly and persistently to drive game, open up dense thickets of vegetation, and create fresh green regrowth for both humans and game animals to eat.
In the region of Niebla, specifically at Las Rocinas, the land is flat, covered by thickets, and wild boars are always to be found there..
Poaching and the absence of fires, which had been the result of human activity, set the stage for the development of dense woodlands and thickets over the next 30–50 years.
Rather, he was directed to sacrifice instead a nearby ram that was stuck in thickets.
Shisou(Thickets of Poetic Criticism) Li Bai especially excelled in the Gushi form, or "old style" poems, a type of poetry allowing a great deal of freedom in terms of the form and content of the work.
Common combinations with thickets
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- thickets and 6×
- thickets of 6×
- and thickets 3×
- nearby thickets 2×
- thickets that 2×
- dense thickets 2×
- by thickets 2×
- in thickets 2×