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Example sentences for "thickish"

Lexicographically close words:
thicker; thickest; thicket; thicketed; thickets; thickly; thickness; thicknesses; thickset; thicky
  1. She was sitting with her hands in her lap looking straight before her, pale-faced and not uncomely, with thickish mouth and nose--the woman whose bill we had thrown out.

  2. A low species with thickish crenate leaves and deep yellow heads.

  3. A dwarf prostrate plant with thickish evergreen toothed leaves and dull purple flowers, abundant on the rocks at 8,000 feet elevation.

  4. In a thickish memorandum book, with a stout cover of red leather, which he always carried in his pocket.

  5. The thickish leaves are light bluish-green and the thick stem, which straggles rather awkwardly over the ground, is a peculiar shade of pink and sticky and hairy, as are also the involucres.

  6. The paper to be split should be well pasted on both sides with a thickish paste, and fine linen or jaconet placed on each side.

  7. The cover can then be well pasted with thickish paste, that has been previously well beaten up.

  8. Perennial herbs, with simple stems from creeping or thickish rootstocks, alternate nerved mostly sessile leaves, and white, sometimes fragrant flowers in a terminal and simple or compound raceme.

  9. Root of thick fibres, from a somewhat fleshy creeping rootstock, bearing a tuft of thickish petioled leaves, usually reticulated with white veining.

  10. Achenes obovate or oblong, flattened, with thickish margins and beset with forked-capitellate hairs; pappus a single row of long awns or coarse rigid bristles, or reduced in the ray to chaffy scales.

  11. Achene (commonly solitary) enclosed in the 4-angled dry and thickish closed calyx-tube.

  12. Herbaceous or shrubby coarse plants, with thickish leaves, the lower opposite, and small nodding greenish-white heads of flowers; in summer and autumn.

  13. Shrubs, with brownish bark, rounded or wedge-shaped crenate and mostly small leaves of thickish or coriaceous texture, and oblong or cylindrical glabrous and mostly erect catkins, on short peduncles.

  14. Frond thickish but not surviving the winter.

  15. Sometimes a thickish bed of clay or a black band of charcoal catches the eye; in another place an overlapped bed is seen to shelve out and disappear altogether.

  16. Here, a bed of fibrinous matter, in which quantities of the partly decomposed fibres of flax could be readily recognisable; there, a thickish deposit of a brownish glutinous stuff like peat.

  17. Mix the oil and wine together, with sufficient flour to make them into a thickish paste; cleanse the anchovies, wipe them, dip them in the paste, and fry of a nice brown colour.

  18. Put the sugar and water together into a lined saucepan, and let them boil until forming a thickish syrup, when lay in the apples with the rind of the lemon cut thin, and the juice of the same.

  19. In answer to it, he bids her "put it into some liquid of a more thickish substance.

  20. We were congratulating ourselves on getting all snug at night, when once more the wind breezed up with a thickish fog, and as we were then in only forty fathoms of water I was obliged again to run to sea.

  21. It had been most difficult to pick a good hiding-place, as there were no trees and very few bushes; and some thickish heather behind a small boulder was the best cover I could find.

  22. That day we lay up in a lonely spot in a thickish wood on one side of a railway cutting overlooking the town of Treuchtlingen.

  23. It was a thick copse of small pine trees with thickish undergrowth, about a mile northeast of the village of Billenhausen--on the whole, about the pleasantest place we found during the expedition.

  24. A thickish man's voice said: "I don't know as that matters.

  25. When cooled a little, add distilled turpentine till it has the consistence of a thickish paste, scenting it with any essence at hand, thinning it when necessary from time to time, by adding distilled turpentine.

  26. The little whisper of the sea by the cliffs joined with the whisper of the wind over the grass, the hum of insects in the thyme, the ruffle and rustle of the flock below, and a thickish mutter deep in the very chalk beneath them.

  27. Then the hunted beast led me into hard ground of limestone formation, heading straight down an open valley leading to a thickish grove of mimosa thorns, and exactly facing the great fiery disc of the setting sun, now very near the horizon.

  28. Subulate, awl-shaped; tapering from a broadish or thickish base to a sharp point.

  29. Perianth complete (in two series) but not corolline, mostly thickish or glumaceous.

  30. The materials for this growth have been supplied by the cotyledons or seed-leaves, still in the seed: it was the store of nourishing material they held which gave them their thickish shape, so unlike that of ordinary leaves.

  31. Tongue-shaped, long and flat, but thickish and blunt.

  32. Boil your turbot as in the last but dress it upon a dish without a napkin, sauce over with a thickish melted butter (having placed a border of well-boiled small potatoes round), sprinkle a few capers over and serve.

  33. Increase is effected by dividing the thickish rootstocks in spring.

  34. The thickish bulbs, about 2 inches through, may be planted out about the end of May, only just covering the tops with an inch or two of soil.

  35. A thickish white veil extends from the stem to the inner margin of the cap.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thickish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.