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Example sentences for "dense thicket"

  • But before going far they sank down in a dense thicket, and lay quite still.

  • Henry led the way along the shore, and from a dense thicket at the water's edge he took a light canoe.

  • Two warriors, having Paul between them, crouched in a dense thicket, and one of them tapped the unarmed boy meaningly with his tomahawk.

  • On April 15th we left Yindi, having seen the last water twenty-six miles back near Gundockerta, and passed Mount Quinn, entering a dense thicket of mulga, which lasted for the next twenty miles.

  • Next we find a dense thicket, and, this passed, we come again to open plains.

  • However, we were agreeably disappointed, for after a few miles the spinifex ceased, and on penetrating a dense thicket we debouched on a fine grassy flat.

  • As she was rounding this point, her eye fell on a dark protuberance, in a dense thicket a few rods in-shore, which appeared of a more oblong and regular form than is usual in such places.

  • It required a lot of labour to get sufficient firewood to boil a quart pot, for, although we were camped in a dense thicket, the small wood of which it was composed was all green, and useless for firewood.

  • In this case, Diaway, finding me attached to him, commenced to lash out his newly shod heels at me, bounding away at the same time into a dense thicket of scrub close by.

  • The bed and banks of the stream were gravelly, and on the latter grew a dense thicket of Myricaria, Hippophae, willow, and rose.

  • Those hills are perhaps the most rugged part of the whole State, and are covered with a dense thicket of underbrush, making it a wild, uninhabited wilderness.

  • After disposing of our prisoners, we secreted our horses in a dense thicket, and ten of us took our stations on a road leading from Benton, Scott county, Missouri, to watch for Federals.

  • While keeping a vigilant watch over the surrounding country, we discovered one of our men emerging cautiously from a dense thicket in the valley at the foot of the hill.

  • I left six of my men with our horses in a dense thicket, and three of us started out separately to visit the negro cabins.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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