Example sentences for: thicket

How can you use “thicket” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The court wandered back into this thicket last month, and wandered out again.

  • I offer my findings in the hopes that fellow readers and media followers will be able to see some light in this particular thicket, as I think I can myself discern now.

  • In his book, Jacoby deplores what he characterizes as a sort of fall, from the Edenic condition of what he calls "classical American intellectuals" born at the turn of the century--Lewis Mumford, Dwight Macdonald, and, inevitably, Edmund Wilson--to the generation born after World War II, whose intellectuals, he claims, have all retreated into academia, where they have lost themselves in a thicket of specialized professional jargon.

  • But by the end, the performance makes sense: It's as if she's scything her way home through a thicket of her own unmanageable emotions--and she gets there.

  • Excellent performances from the two leads, Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, lift this movie above the thicket of clichés it veers toward.


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