Sentence examples for a sort of thick from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a sort of thick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has a certain thickness or density, often in a vague or approximate manner.
Example: "The paint had a sort of thick consistency that made it difficult to apply smoothly."
Alternatives: "somewhat thick" or "kind of thick".

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The Higgs should manifest itself both as a particle and as a sort of thick molasses of pure energy permeating space.

We had mussels to start, dipping into hearts of artichoke, button-mushrooms, salami and other sausages the while, followed by a sort of thick clam and tomato soup followed by spaghetti..."....

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It was set into the wall under a sort of baldequin of thick damask.

A much older woman looks back on her wedding day and recalls the sole witness, the minister's wife: "She had a wen or some sort of thick, fleshy protuberance under her lower lip".

He is pushed by his immigrant father, Mike, a captain, or usher, at a casino in Las Vegas whom Agassi portrays as a sort of comic Caliban, tearing thick bouquets of black hair from his nose and hanging himself from a homemade noose to relieve chronic neck pain.

Ideally, the perfect stick should have measurements about as long as the distance between your feet and the point of your chin, and about one inch (2.5cm) thick, if possible with a decorative knot or burl forming a sort of handgrip at the thicker end.

I ended up adopting a sort of ironic nerd look, with thick, plastic-framed glasses and a clip-on tie.

Mr. Kelley has a girlfriend, a younger artist named Trulee Hall, who works a sort of naughty-librarian look in thick-rimmed cat eye glasses and tattoos.

Covering the ruins of his bulky musculature was the sort of thick coating of insulation traditionally worn by 19th-century bankers and modern TV repairmen.

Under the direction of Moisés Kaufman ("33 Variations," "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo"), each performance is drawn in the sort of thick, quick strokes that might be used for literary caricatures in The New York Review of Books.

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