As natural architects, the pueblo Indians figured out exactly how thick the adobe walls needed to be to make the cycle work on most days.

Further up, the weather changes— low clouds envelope the mountainsides, which are covered with thick grass.

It is so cold that you can't go outside unless fully covered in thick clothes.

It was a thick enough book.

One early morning, I went into the living room to find my mother reading a thick book called best loved poems to read again and again.

When combined with berries of slices of other fruits, frozen bananas make an excellent base for thick, cooling fruit shakes and low fat \ice cream\.

The busy streets in Paris were uneven and caked in thick mud, but there was always a breathtaking sight to see in the shop windows of Patisserie de la Rue de la Paix.

The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more slippery.

where lawyer-moms are thick on the ground.

The West Antarctic ice sheet was about 7,000 feet thick.

Scientists agree that key player in this scenario is the West Antarctic ice sheet, a Brazil-size mass of frozen water that is much as 7000 feet thick

That presumably included much more water than the tiny trace we find blowing in the thick air today.

That was confirmed in the early 1990s by the American Magellan orbiter which used radar to peer through the planet's thick clouds and mapped out a rich, varied and dynamic surface.

John Gottman, the marriage expert, explains that we quickly\thin slice\information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in \thick sliced\ long-term study.