DENSE in a Sentence

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For DENSE, below is one of 102 sentences:
Carnal appetite makes one seize a beakful of prey: then up, up again, out of the dense into the ethereal, from the wet into the dry.

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 Meanings and Examples of DENSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dense
 a.  thick; crowded closely together; compact
Classic Sentence: (84 in 6 pages)
1  They came to the fence, beyond which the young fir-wood bristled dense.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
2  Connie climbed the fence into the narrow path between the dense, bristling young firs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
3  Constance didn't like this dense new part of the wood; it seemed gruesome and choking.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
4  All was dense and silent, save for the awed dog that lay with its paws against its nose.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  Carnal appetite makes one seize a beakful of prey: then up, up again, out of the dense into the ethereal, from the wet into the dry.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
6  The air grew colder, as day came slowly on; and the mist rolled along the ground like a dense cloud of smoke.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  The old smoke-stained storehouses on either side, rose heavy and dull from the dense mass of roofs and gables, and frowned sternly upon water too black to reflect even their lumbering shapes.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
8  Some were distant, and stood in a dense atmosphere, so that bundles of pale straw-like beams radiated around them in the shape of a fan.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
9  Diving into the dense obscurity in a line headed by Sam the turf-cutter, they pursued their trackless way home.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
10  The third time there was a dense fog; she looked around, but without much hope.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
11  Venn moved his elbow towards a hollow in which a dense brake of purple-stemmed brambles had grown to such vast dimensions as almost to form a dell.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
12  There no dense partition of yawns and toilets divides humanity by night from humanity by day.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
13  I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
14  Both road and stream wound up through a valley dense with scrub oak and fir.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
15  I have said that over the great Grimpen Mire there hung a dense, white fog.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  The mountain area is covered entirely in dense jungle.
2  A narrow track wound steeply up through dense forest.
3  The track led through dense forest.
4  The body was found hidden in dense undergrowth.
5  When baked, the loaf is usually thick-crusted and dense and does not color to a dark gold.
6  The path was completely covered by the dense foliage.
7  Either side of the river is dense, impenetrable jungle.
8  He led us on,into a dense forest.
9  Parts of the forest are still dense and inaccessible.
10  The temple lay deep within the dense forest.
11  Twenty million years ago, Idaho was populated by dense primordial forest.
12  He is so dense, he'll never understand your message.
13  Railway lines criss-cross in a dense network.
14  Plant chimneys belch out dense smoke.
15  This creature's fur is short, dense and silky.