The word 'thickets' is correct and usable in written English.
'Thickets' refers to a dense and tangled growth of small trees, bushes, or shrubs. It can be used in both formal and informal writing, as well as in spoken language. Example: The hunters searched through the thickets for the lost hiker, struggling to move through the tangled branches and undergrowth.
First, it must move away from the empty and squalid anti-SNP rhetoric of some of its elder statesmen, who now resemble old Japanese soldiers in the thickets of an island in the Pacific fighting a war that was lost a long time ago.
And perhaps the finding and matching of objects mimics tasks our brains are good at, but don't get to do very much any more, like searching for ripe fruit in tangled thickets, or picking stones out of dried lentils.
This exhibition of vintage prints, organized by Jack Macrae and Kristoffer Haynes, includes some lush, accomplished and wonderfully unobtrusive images of nesting birds and unruly thickets of foliage.
Faced with more taxes, thickets of red tape, interference with pay and a new and hostile regulator, the Bank of England, these firms darkly hint that they might move elsewhere.
Mr Garton Ash brings the reader sure-footedly through the thickets of Germany's post-war history and through the marshy ground of moral relativism.
Millions of "bombies"—tennis-ball-sized devices from American cluster bombs lurk in topsoil and bamboo thickets, along with hand grenades and mortar and artillery shells.A Christian group, the Mennonite Central Committee, began to help Laos start clearing bombs in the 1970s.
The bigger snares are thickets of politics and ideology in which all the principals are enmeshed.
On the contrary, she acted to protect rules that her superiors flouted.In leading us through such thickets, Mr Press points to studies in psychology and to philosophical work on moral dilemmas.
By the end of the 1980s, Ghana was being declared a success story and held up as a model reformer.But in the 1990s reform got bogged down in the thickets of privatisation.
Instead, he is trying to hack his way out of two nasty legal and political thickets.
Mr Abad relates the colonisation of south-western Antioquia, then a remote mountainous tract of nothing but "trees, wild beasts, birds, torrents, thickets, snakes, butterflies, ravines and mosquitoes".
