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Meanings of thicket in English
Synonyms
Examples for "brush"
Examples for "brush"
1
The roller work was almost done; next came the nit-picky brush work.
2
The religious freedom law was not Pence's only brush with national controversy.
3
However, we perhaps had our own brush with a national tragedy, here.
4
So far, it has made its case with only a broad brush.
5
I also used a striping brush to create the heart and lines.
1
At the faintest sound of movement in the brushwood, the jingle ceases.
2
A great fire of brushwood and pine-apples was blazing in the dining-room.
3
A stealthy brown figure glided away in silence through the tangled brushwood.
4
We were thus engaged when we heard a rustling in the brushwood.
5
Between these rows of brushwood runs the path frequented by the deer.
1
A few moments later the two friends had disappeared in the copse.
2
Darker, darker grew the copse and the chill of the night descended.
3
We will lose no time in searching the copse you speak of.
4
The soldiers will scatter about, and penetrate every part of the copse.
5
But one season previously the copse seemed to belong to the missel-thrushes.
1
Turkeys run into the coppice, and pheasants whirr up from the path.
2
Our tent was on the border of a coppice of young trees.
3
They came to a larger space where the coppice had been cut.
4
Round a small pool of water a coppice of branches was interlaced.
5
Arrived there we went by a narrow pathway driven through a coppice.
Usage of thicket in English
1
No; he could not see me; I was right in the thicket.
2
The buck ran into the thicket; but the doe eyed him curiously.
3
Back in the thicket he heard the prowling of some small animal.
4
Scholes had to fight his way through a thicket of selectorial challenges.
5
S: The dwellers of the thicket gave the lie to the messengers.
6
A slinking gray shadow crossed the undulation and disappeared in the thicket.
7
The whole plateau and thicket were as light as in the day.
8
They whistled in the dog and sent him scouring through the thicket.
9
They rested on a tin pan on the ground in the thicket.
10
From his covert in the thicket behind the rocks he saw everything.
11
Matthew was thinking furiously while watching the thicket on the far side.
12
Once I came upon the big buck lying down in a thicket.
13
It grew in the thicket, and was sheltered from sun and storm.
14
Then I peered keenly into the red rose shadows of the thicket.
15
We shot down, suddenly, and lit in the centre of the thicket.
16
The branches stood apart a little at the foot of the thicket.
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Thicket through the time
Thicket across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common