Thicket has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The path stretching from that house to the bamboo thicket was laid with stone paving. | |
| 2. | By chance, they heard some suspicious activity in the thicket which indicated that a bear also smelled their food. | |
| 3. | From a thicket close by came three beautiful white swans, rustling their feathers, and swimming lightly over the smooth water. | |
| 4. | One morning soon afterwards, pretending that she was going to visit a neighbour, she followed the young couple to the fields; and hiding herself in a thicket, that she herself might not be seen, she saw and heard all that passed between them. | |
| 5. | Sami hid in a dense thicket. | |
| 6. | It seemed inevitable that the father or daughter, or both, should have fallen victims to the impending danger, when a shot from the neighbouring thicket arrested the progress of the animal. | |
| 7. | He might have supposed the bull had been arrested in its career by a thunderbolt, had he not observed among the branches of the thicket the figure of a man, with a short gun or musquetoon in his hand. | |
| 8. | The Master wrapt himself in his cloak, made a haughty inclination toward Lucy, muttering a few words of courtesy, as indistinctly heard as they seemed to be reluctantly uttered, and, turning from them, was immediately lost in the thicket. | |
| 9. | The tiger is hiding in a bamboo thicket. |