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Example sentences for "thickly"

Lexicographically close words:
thickest; thicket; thicketed; thickets; thickish; thickness; thicknesses; thickset; thicky; thider
  1. The island was thickly inhabited by many Indians, whom the cruel conduct of the Spaniards had driven from the mainland.

  2. It was constructed simply, of boughs of trees thickly worked together.

  3. Inland the country was broken and mountainous; the hills being, in all cases, thickly covered with trees.

  4. The windows were placed high up from the ground, far beyond their reach, and were thickly barred.

  5. After traversing for some miles a flat, level country, they began to mount; and for about two hours ascended a mountain, thickly covered with forest.

  6. Presently he passed a huge, half-decayed windfall, thickly draped in shrubbery and vines.

  7. The point he chose was where a dense growth of huckleberry and withe-wood ran out to within a few feet of the water's edge, and where the sand of the beach was dotted thickly with tufts of grass.

  8. Streaks and twines of yellowish white were scattered thickly amid the ragged blackness of the old man's hair and beard.

  9. When Grenville regained his senses, he found himself pinioned hand and foot, and lying in a great hall, which was thickly packed with Mormons of both sexes.

  10. On the right were thickly wooded hills; and, far away in the distance, glittered the peaks and pinnacles of Metz, the whole forming a lovely panorama, spread out below in the smiling valley of Lorraine.

  11. The floor of the church is thickly covered with flat tombstones.

  12. Shepherd's Bush and many of the adjoining roads are thickly lined with bushy young plane-trees.

  13. Opposite to the church is a public recreation-ground, and south of it the Fulham cemetery, not so large, but more thickly planted with shrubs than that of Hammersmith, already noted.

  14. There is a broad gravel walk down the centre, and two small chapels, round which the graves are thickly clustered, spreading gradually westward as space is required.

  15. The tree is upright-spreading, with numerous thick branches over which the cherries are rather thickly scattered in ones, twos and threes and never in clusters.

  16. The fruit is especially attractive on the tree as it hangs on long stems in twos and threes thickly scattered and never much clustered.

  17. The trees are readily told from those of the earlier Duke, being more open and spreading, scanter of foliage, with slender branches and with fruit more thickly clustered along the branchlets.

  18. The bushes are thickly clothed with leaves densely tomentose on the underside, in this respect and in shape, as well, very unlike the foliage of common cultivated cherries.

  19. Lesser faults are that the cherries are not uniform in shape and are borne thickly in close clusters so that when brown-rot is rife this variety suffers greatly.

  20. The branches are stout and bear the crop thickly placed close to the wood and in prodigious quantities.

  21. It was now that the strangers began to perceive the real beauties of the Land of Oz, for they were passing through a more thickly settled part of the country and the population grew more dense as they drew nearer to the Emerald City.

  22. One evening I walked into the Convent Hospital where the wounded lay so thickly that I had to step over the stretcher loads.

  23. Out over the canal stretched footbridges, and these were thickly sown with barbed wire.

  24. To preserve oranges and lemons for several months, take those that are perfectly fresh, and wrap each one by itself in soft paper, and put them in glass jars, or a very tight box, strew white sand thickly round each one and over the top.

  25. Then roll out your crust very thin, lay the pieces of butter thickly over it.

  26. The ground was thickly carpeted with red and yellow leaves, little columns of smoke rising at intervals where people were burning weeds or rotten wood in the fields; and just enough purple mist to poetize everything.

  27. The ladders were thrown down as fast as they were placed, while the defenders, thickly clustered on the walls, drove back those who tried to cross from the tower.

  28. Groping about they presently came upon a heap of forage, and taking off their outer garments lay down on this, covering themselves thickly with it.

  29. Heavily and thickly did the locusts fall; they were lavish of their lives; they choked the flame and the water, which destroyed them the while, and the vast living hostile armament still moved on.

  30. The crew were thickly clustering on the rigging to see them return, and from among them another man missed his footing and fell overboard from the main-chains.

  31. This they did in the most spirited manner, receiving a hot fire in return both from the forts and from riflemen posted in the neighbourhood, rifle bullets and shot and shell falling thickly on board.

  32. Then we smeared them thickly with blood and, though the Catholics strove their hardest, not one of them managed to get a footing on the top.

  33. Then a number of retainers came in with trusses of straw, which were shaken down thickly beside the walls; and as soon as this was done, all present prepared to lie down.

  34. The whole surface is most thickly clothed with minute spines, which are not visible when the specimen is dry; I think it probable that they may sometimes all drop off before a new period of exuviation.

  35. Penis, of small size, narrow, pointed, and thickly clothed with delicate hairs; in length equalling only one fourth of the sixth cirrus.

  36. First pair far removed from the second pair, and not above half their length; segments rather broad, with transverse rows of bristles not very thickly crowded together; terminal segments very obtuse, and furnished with thick spines.

  37. First cirrus is short, and placed not quite close to the second pair; the basal segments are broad and thickly paved with bristles.

  38. The pedicels of all the cirri are thickly covered with bristles.

  39. Second cirrus (as well as the third in a less degree), with the anterior ramus thicker than the posterior ramus, and with all the lower segments in both rami thickly clothed with three or four longitudinal rows of spines.

  40. Valves, 15 in number, placed close together, clouded pale red, covered with membrane, which is thickly clothed with minute points.

  41. First cirrus not very short; rami nearly equal, with the four terminal segments of both tapering; all the basal segments much thicker, and thickly covered with bristles.

  42. It is separated from Flinders by a channel, which I named after Sir John Franklin, four miles wide, thickly strewed with islands and shoals.

  43. We found the banks of the river thickly clothed with tall reeds, through which with some difficulty we forced our way.

  44. About seven miles in an East by North direction the country was thickly wooded, and appeared to be a little higher--the only interruption to the level monotony of the portion of the continent by which we were surrounded.

  45. We found here considerable difficulty in forcing our way through the tall and thickly growing reeds which lined the bank.

  46. The banks were so high, and so thickly covered with tall reeds, that it was only by the very green appearance of the trees about its banks that its course could be made out.

  47. The latter is slightly elevated, and thickly wooded; it is large in comparison with its neighbours, being about ten miles in extent either way.

  48. On opening the cavity I found it throughout thickly coated with slimy or mucal secretion (the only uterus found by me in this state.

  49. The eastern islands are said to be more thickly inhabited.

  50. As we were now in what appeared to be a rather thickly populated district of the country, it was requisite to choose a position beyond the reach of sudden attack.

  51. The country just here was so thickly wooded that I was obliged to climb a tree in order to get the bearings.

  52. The banks are steep and high, thickly clothed with the acacia, drooping eucalyptus, and tall reeds.

  53. Pulo Douw appeared to be thickly inhabited, and was encircled by a reef, except at its North-North-West point, where there is a cliffy projection.

  54. The base and sides of these heights were thickly strewn with small fragments of sandstone.

  55. There was a piano, too, but the dust lay so thickly on it that he decided that the family were not very musical, or else that they were too busy with other things to have much time for relaxation.

  56. Rockefeller had been unharnessed and turned into the doctor's paddock, which stretched away from the back of the house up to a line of hills thickly wooded.

  57. He who had looked death in the face without emotion, who had seen the deadly cannon-balls falling thickly around him without a trembling of the eyelids, now felt a presentiment of danger, and shrank from it.

  58. The white, soft mist settled more thickly around them.

  59. But his doings are nothing to the working of another wafer-shelled bivalve, whose tiny habitations are so thickly imbedded in the body of a nodule of flint as to render its exterior like a sieve, diducit scopulos aceto.

  60. It was steep at first; but soon the rocks grew lower; and we came out presently on to a great desolate plain, with stones lying thickly about, among a coarse kind of grass.

  61. The Gurkhas waited patiently, lining the trenches as thickly as they could stand.

  62. It was of a dark reddish-brown colour, thickly dotted over with grey spots.

  63. Why, of course, those eyes, so lashless then, so thickly fringed to-day!

  64. People chatting over their consommations sat right out, almost into the middle of the square, so thickly packed that there was scarcely room for the busy, lively, white-aproned waiters to move between them.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thickly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    close; closely; firmly; heavily; immeasurably; infinitely; profusely; thick