THICK in a Sentence
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272 example sentences for THICK, such as:
1. The air was thick with cigar fumes.
2. Faults are thick where love is thin.
3. The dinner plates were thick with grease.
4. She wears glasses with very thick lenses.
5. She had thick black hair and smooth dark skin.
2. Faults are thick where love is thin.
3. The dinner plates were thick with grease.
4. She wears glasses with very thick lenses.
5. She had thick black hair and smooth dark skin.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of THICK
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thick
a. having a short and solid form or stature
a. not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The cold was less sharp than earlier in the day and a thick fleecy sky threatened snow for the morrow.
2 Gerald was a small man, little more than five feet tall, but so heavy of barrel and thick of neck that his appearance, when seated, led strangers to think him a larger man.
3 The lawn, reclaimed from weeds, grew thick with clover and Bermuda grass, and Gerald saw to it that it was well kept.
4 The red color of her skin, narrow high forehead, prominent cheek bones and the hawk-bridged nose which flattened at the end above thick negro lips, all showed the mixture of two races.
5 The thick deep-gold lashes that set off the gray eyes of John Wilkes and Ashley were sparse and colorless in the faces of Honey and her sister India.
6 And her thick sooty lashes--they were fluttering just like the eyes of girls in romances he had read, fluttering with timidity and love.
7 Beyond it, Peachtree road narrowed and twisted under great trees out of sight into thick quiet woods.
8 And suddenly she grinned for, as a voice thick with brogue and whisky came to her, raised in "Peg in a Low-backed Car," she knew.
9 The side window of the newspaper office opened and a hand was extended, bearing a sheaf of long narrow galley proofs, smeared with fresh ink and thick with names closely printed.
10 It was a beautiful piece of material, thick and warm and with a dull sheen to it, undoubtedly blockade goods and undoubtedly very expensive.
11 It was a long yellow sash, made of thick China silk and edged with heavy fringe.
12 If for no other reason she hated the Yankees because they kept her from having real coffee with sugar and thick cream in it.
13 The spurred horse went off as though on springs and Scarlett was left standing in the middle of the street with the red dust thick upon her ankles.
14 She hurried into the crowd at Five Points, now so thick there was no room on the narrow sidewalks and she was forced to walk in the street.
15 Scarlett picked up the small baby and wrapped him hastily in a thick towel.
Example Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1 The air was thick with cigar fumes.
2 She almost choked to death in the thick fumes.
3 They had to approach the castle through thick swamps.
4 They had to battle through thick mud to reach construction workers.
5 The town was covered in a thick blanket of fog.
6 Today most of England will be under a cloak of thick mist.
7 She wears glasses with very thick lenses.
8 Faults are thick where love is thin.
9 He dipped the brush into the thick white paint.
10 I misheard the word "sick" as "thick".
11 She had thick black hair and smooth dark skin.
12 Clouds of thick black smoke billowed from the car's exhaust.
13 You'll have to break the branches away to get through the thick forest.
14 A thick overcoat is a good defense against the cold.
15 The dinner plates were thick with grease.