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  • adjective comparative form of thick: more thick
  • adverb comparative form of thick: more thick

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Examples

  • Plus, with longer life expectancies, there are more potential new partners out there -- "what we call a thicker remarriage market," Coontz says.

    KTVZ.com - Local Headlines 2010

  • -- Why, I'd sooner fight before broke-down old plugs of work-horses that's candidates for chicken-meat, than before them rotten bunches of stiffs with nothin 'thicker'n water in their veins, an' Contra Costa water at that when the rains is heavy on the hills.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • -- Why, I'd sooner fight before broke-down old plugs of work-horses that's candidates for chicken-meat, than before them rotten bunches of stiffs with nothin 'thicker'n water in their veins, an' Contra Costa water at that when the rains is heavy on the hills.

    Chapter 10 1913

  • Slightly thicker is ok, but the cake should be quite thin.

    Homemade Hotteok | Baking Bites 2009

  • The 30/30 I use mainly if I'm hunting in thicker brush. either way one can't go wrong.

    Whats the better cal. 2009

  • The Signs one way to tell if a coyote is approaching in thicker cover is to look for a following magpie or crow.

    How To Shoot A Winter Coyote 2009

  • The 30/30 I use mainly if I'm hunting in thicker brush. either way one can't go wrong.

    Whats the better cal. 2009

  • In "The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack," gentlemen still wear top hats, carry sticks and visit their clubs; young ladies are expected to observe the Victorian proprieties; Limehouse is dirty and dangerous; and the London fog rolls in thicker than ever.

    "The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack," steampunk by Mark Hodder Michael Dirda 2010

  • Food writer Mark Bittman shows you the process — or, at least, shows how little process there is — of making store brand yoghurt into “Greek”, strained, thick or whatever you call your thicker, more delicious yoghurt.

    Use A Dish Towel To Make Regular Yoghurt “Greek” | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Up through the chimney and out, the smoke mingled with the mist that was gathering speed, sweeping in thicker and thicker, obscuring things in partshalf a hill, then the other half.

    Excerpt: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 2006

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