thick
Example Sentences
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By engineering a subwavelength grating, they were able to trap infrared light within a layer only 40 nanometers thick.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
Americans often treat their nation’s founding text as a relic best observed through thick glass at the National Archives.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
After hours spent in the thick pollution-choking parts of northern Thailand, Pon Doikam gets home and blows her burning nose to find blood clots spattered across the tissue.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
They are both in the thick of the relegation battle at the bottom of the table and will surely have at least one eye on that, rather than being fully focused on the FA Cup.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
Although Luna’s notebook is my favorite kind—with lie-flat pages that are thick enough that ink doesn’t bleed through.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
