Use thick in a sentence
Sentences starting with thick
- Thick cushions, covered with lion and panther-skins, tempted fatigue or indolence; and when the hero of the hour joined his guests, after his progress through the precincts, every couch was occupied. [10]
- Thick clouds of smoke hovered over its towers, obscuring the light of the burning May sun. [10]
- Thick silk curtains shut out the bright May sunshine from the quiet room. [10]
- Thick clouds of gnats followed these tormented gangs, who with dull and spirit-broken endurance suffered alike the stings of the insects and the blows of their driver. [10]
- Thick thwack, cut and hack, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, head-over-heels, rough-and-tumble! [4]
Sentences ending with thick
- The coat of wool was unbelievably thick. [5]
- Almost instantly we were shut up as in a fog, the driving snow was so thick. [5]
- He had the Wall street slang at his tongue's end; he always talked like a capitalist, and entered with enthusiasm into all the land and railway schemes with which the air was thick. [5]
- It is no use to call; no one can hear, for it is all roar outside, and these walls are solid and very thick. [11]
- By that time there was a heavy sea running; night came on, and the weather grew very thick. [11]
- The waggons stopped the way, and neither could the rest of the train, nor their armed outriders, nor our own folks come past, by reason that the ditch was full deep and the underwood thick. [10]
- Think of the stone shingles of the roof eight inches thick! [5]
- Jethro liked the spot, and was in the habit sometimes of taking refuge there when the atmosphere of the Pelican House became too thick. [9]
- On the other side of the temple is a monstrous seven-ton rock, eleven feet long, seven feet wide and three feet thick. [5]
- A terror, a shame, a dreadful cruelty entered into him, but he was still and numb, and his tongue was thick. [11]
Short sentences using thick
- Bring a thick one, Walter. [9]
- How thick the names were! [5]
Sentences containing thick two or more times
- One, a fat face, framed in thick hair and a short, thick and ragged beard, was of a dusky brown and as coarse and brutal as the other was smooth, colorless and lean, cruel and crafty. [10]
More example sentences with the word thick in them
- At Pocasset the young men explored all the thick woods,--some who ought to have known better taking their guns, which made a talk, as one might well suppose it would. [6]
- There's gossip for you, thick as mortar," cried the charcoalman, and the mealman's fingers beat a tattoo on his stomach. [11]
- Money may desert you, friends forsake you, enemies grow indifferent to you, but the scarlet fever will be true to you, through thick and thin, till you be all saved or damned, down to the last one. [5]
- Rabbits so thick you can't step without kicking one out. [13]
- Manners tells me you are to remain awhile in London, Mr. Carvel," he said, in his thick voice. [9]
- The spray of yellow wall-flowers on her breast had been cut from the blooming plant in the window of her room, and Barbara had helped arrange her thick hair. [10]
- Every letter Comyn writ me was nine parts Dolly, and the rest of his sheet usually taken up with Mr. Fox and his calamities: these had fallen upon him very thick of late. [9]
- Then his forehead would knot and furrow itself, and the drops of anguish stand thick upon it. [6]
- Not a single word unconnected with his trade, the weather, or an accident, had ever reached the friends' ears from Chello's thick lips, and this circumstance seemed to warrant Hermon in the expectation of learning from him the pure, unadulterated truth. [10]
- It consisted of wood and stones, and was covered with a thick layer of moss, raised at the head in a slanting direction. [10]
- He rose and without any word of command from his master, he silently and carefully placed on the high-priest's bare head a long and thick curled wig, [Egyptians belonging to the higher classes wore wigs on their shaven heads. [10]
- It was covered with ivy, which grew thick and hungry upon it, and it was called the Cloistered House. [11]
- He had brought with him a small statue of a riverman with flannel shirt, scarf about the waist, thick defiant trousers and well-weaponed boots. [11]
- Low and wide-roofed, with dormer windows and a wide stoop in front, and walls three feet thick, behind, on the river side, it hung over the water, its narrow veranda supported by piles, with steps down to the water-side. [11]
- He was armed with a musketoon (which he carried rather as a joke), a pike and an ax, which latter he used as a wolf uses its teeth, with equal case picking fleas out of its fur or crunching thick bones. [2]
- The streets are wisely made narrow and the houses heavy and thick and stony, in order that the people may be cool in this roasting climate. [5]
- What it held will, perhaps, never be known, until they are dead and gone, and same curious eye lights on an old yellow letter with the fossil footprints of the extinct passion trodden thick all over it. [6]
- The tall lady, whose noble face and majestic figure were shrouded in a thick veil, was Juliane's mother--and she had offered the sick ropedancer a home in her wealthy household. [10]
- The old ones, wet, discoloured, and torn, were stripped off, and thick, woollen ones substituted. [9]
- They were thick, wet woods, unlike our woods of the mountains; and more than once we had excitement enough with the snakes that lay there. [9]
- Its precipitous sides were powdered over with snow, and the upper half hidden in thick clouds which now and then dissolved to cobweb films and gave brief glimpses of the imposing tower as through a veil. [5]
- Let's go where we'll be in the thick of the broiling when it comes. [11]
- Working by night, we stowed the powder in the tower--dug stones out, on the inside, and buried the powder in the walls themselves, which were fifteen feet thick at the base. [5]
- This granite couch we covered with the dry and springy moss, which we stripped off in heavy fleeces a foot thick from the bowlders. [4]
- Her thick, slightly waving hair framed the lovely oval of her face under the veil, and Alexander agreed with his sister when she expressed the wish that she might but once see this rarely beautiful creature. [10]
- Our first thought was to build a fire, which would drive back the thick darkness into the woods, and boil some water for our tea. [4]
- But my voice was thick, my affection for him having grown-past my understanding. [9]
- But the storm was so thick they could not see the ship's length out into the river. [9]
- The third blade was of better temper; or perhaps the thick of the work was already over. [5]
- This ancient temple was built of rough blocks of lava, and was simply a roofless inclosure a hundred and thirty feet long and seventy wide --nothing but naked walls, very thick, but not much higher than a man's head. [5]
- The Greek prince was an old man, his beard and thick hair were grey, but his movements were youthful and light, though dignified and deliberate. [10]
- And the log-chains, wagon tyres, and rotting wrecks of vehicles were almost as thick as the bones. [5]
- The roofs are very thick, and so are the walls; the latter have square holes in them for windows. [5]
- He was a very busy man, in the thick of the struggle for a great fortune. [4]
- The dust settled upon you in a thick ashy layer and turned you into a fakeer, with nothing lacking to the role but the cow manure and the sense of holiness. [5]
- Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows. [5]
- He lay just under the icons; his large thick hands outside the quilt. [2]
- One hand lay under her head, hidden among the thick dark brown hair, the other clasped unconsciously a little amulet of green stone, which hung round her neck. [10]
- It raised a turmoil of excited conversation, and opinions fell thick and fast. [5]
- I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods. [5]
- As we crept toward the shore, in the thick darkness, a blinding glory of white electric light burst suddenly from our forecastle, and lit up the water and the warehouses as with a noon-day glare. [5]
- The storm had tossed and torn her garment and tumbled all her thick, white hair, so that locks of it fell over her face. [10]
- This paper is too thick to fold, which is the reason I send only a half-sheet. [7]
- I say, appeared to be; for we stood in thick fog or in the heart of clouds which limited our dim view to a radius of twenty feet. [4]
- A devil born to a young couple is measurably recognizable by them as a devil before long, but a devil adopted by an old couple is an angel to them, and remains so, through thick and thin. [5]
- But after a tiresome march of almost half a mile, we came to a hill covered thick with a crumbly rubbish of stones, and so steep that no man of us all was now in a condition to climb it. [5]
- Most of the time had been taken up with apparently idle and purposeless inquiries about the Chinon events, the exiled Duke of Orleans, Joan's first proclamation, and so on, but all this seemingly random stuff had really been sown thick with hidden traps. [5]
- We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. [5]
- I can run this institution without any outside assistance, and I shall have a wife who will stand by me like a soldier through thick and thin, and never complain. [5]
- His voice was thick, while the Selwyn of Annapolis was never soberer in his life. [9]
- The door was thick, solid oak slabs. [5]
- The woods warn't thick, so I looked over my shoulder to dodge the bullet, and twice I seen Harney cover Buck with his gun; and then he rode away the way he come--to get his hat, I reckon, but I couldn't see. [5]
- He wore a thick, short coat, a red sash about his waist, a blue flannel shirt, and a loose red scarf, like a handkerchief, at his throat. [11]
- Her hair was thick, brown and very full, like that of her father, and in all respects, save one, she had an advantage over both her parents. [11]
- The walls are thick, and those big mahogany doors fit like a glove. [11]
- His voice was thick with uncontrolled passion, his hand was cold. [9]
- The air was thick with tobacco-smoke, trays were scattered about, laden with stubs of cigars and ashes, and empty and half-filled glasses were everywhere. [11]
- Rustlings in the thick undergrowth told him of stealthy movements of these animals. [13]
- It was so thick that it resembled a book. [5]
- I cut the thick skin, which easily falls apart and discloses the luscious quarters, plump, juicy, and waiting to melt in the mouth. [4]
- Troubles were gathering thick round her; how soon they would break upon her, and blight or destroy her, no one could tell; but there was nothing in all the catalogue of terrors which might not come upon the household at any moment. [6]
- They are so thick on the map that one would hardly expect to find room between them for a canoe; yet we seldom glimpse one. [5]
- For in the thick of the fight there is cheer, but you are far away and cannot hear the drums nor see the wheeling squadrons. [5]
- He had the thick hand, stubbed fingers, with bristled pads between their joints, square, broad thumb-nails, and sturdy limbs, which mark a constitution made to use in rough out-door work. [6]
- It was too thick for game, there was no roadway leading anywhere, but only an overgrown path, used in the old days by Indians. [11]
- Behind curtains of thick faded brocade was her bedstead, a heavy structure of enormous width. [10]
- The well-formed head, thick dark hair, and magnificent beard corresponded with the powerful figure. [10]
- There was a thick coating of ice over men, yawl, ropes and everything else, and we looked like rock-candy statuary. [5]
- He takes the thick and thin as it comes, as to pie, for instance. [4]
- It swept along, thick and solid, five hundred thousand angels abreast, and every angel carrying a torch and singing--the whirring thunder of the wings made a body's head ache. [5]
- Not only did they so decide at that time, but they stuck to it during sixty years, through thick and thin, as long as there was one of the Revolutionary heroes upon the stage of political action. [7]
- From the fleches they rode still farther to the left, along a road winding through a thick, low-growing birch wood. [2]
- He had left these quiet scenes inexperienced and untravelled, to be thrust suddenly into the thick of a struggle of nations over a sick land. [11]
- The walls of these dungeons are as thick as some bed-chambers at home are wide--fifteen feet. [5]
- In one place there was a public building which was fenced about with a thick, rusty chain, which sagged from post to post in a succession of low swings. [5]
- Every now and then I stopped a second amongst the thick leaves and listened, but my breath come so hard I couldn't hear nothing else. [5]
- Where he was the woods were thick, and here and there on either side it was almost impenetrable. [11]
- The cause of the unaccountable delay of Sir George and the relief parties among the heights where the disaster had happened was a thick fog--or, partly that and partly the slow and difficult work of conveying the dead body down the perilous steeps. [5]
- Still lower, beyond the turn of the staircase, one could hear the footstep of someone in thick felt boots, and a voice that seemed familiar to Princess Mary was saying something. [2]
- The curves of the tiled roof enfolded the upper windows; the walls were thick, the note one of mystery. [9]
- He was in the thick of literary projects. [4]
- Now here, in the thick of life, then, out there, beyond this world in the darkin purgatory. [11]
- When we reached the summit, the mist came boiling up after us, rising like a thick wall to the sky, and hiding all that great mountain range, the Vallais Alps, from which we had come, and which we hoped to see from this point. [4]
- All abroad over the spacious floor, and clear down to the doors, in a thick jumble, lay or sat the scrofulous, under a strong light. [5]
- You can't get the simplest little thing through your thick skull. [5]
- Lying down in the shadow of a thick tamarisk bush, above which a tall palm towered proudly, he stretched his limbs comfortably to rest in the assurance that the people were now provided for, in war by his good sword, in peace by the Law. [10]
- This was not the pie of commerce, but the pie of the country,--two thick slabs of dough, with a squeezing of apple between. [4]
- At first Dietel, the old waiter, whose bullet-shaped head was covered with thick gray hair, also failed to notice them. [10]
- Once early in the morning, a multitude of white villas not before perceived, revealed themselves on the far hills; then we recognized that all those great hills are snowed thick with them, clear to the summit. [5]
- Nay, even in the midst of the silent dwelling of the speechless Sisters, right merry laughter might be heard during the hours of rest, and in spite of the thick walls of the class-room it reached the nuns' ears. [10]
- You cannot eat the grizzly--he is too thick and coarse; but the puma--well, you had him from the pot to-night. [11]
- For a while the enemy came thick and fast; but no matter, the head man of each procession always got a buffet that dislodged him as soon as he came in reach. [5]
- Natasha looked in the direction in which her father's eyes were turned and saw Julie sitting beside her mother with a happy look on her face and a string of pearls round her thick red neck--which Natasha knew was covered with powder. [2]
- The flesh on the corpse was not as thick as the back of a knife, and incisions in it brought not one drop of blood. [5]
- All along under the centre of Virginia and Gold Hill, for a couple of miles, ran the great Comstock silver lode--a vein of ore from fifty to eighty feet thick between its solid walls of rock--a vein as wide as some of New York's streets. [5]
- The woodman rims the bark near the foot of the tree, and again six feet above, and slashes it perpendicularly; then, with a blunt stick, he crowds off this thick hide exactly as an ox is skinned. [4]
- It was in the back of the niche formed by the unusually thick walls. [10]
- We stood on the ashy edge of the crater, the sharp edge sloping one way down the mountain, and the other into the bowels, whence the thick, stifling smoke rose. [4]
- Probably ten times the age of the birches that formed the forest, it was ten times as thick and twice as tall as they. [2]
- We have seen that this massed array of peeresses is sown thick with diamonds, and we also see that it is a marvellous spectacle--but now we are about to be astonished in earnest. [5]
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