"Our headwriter made sure that the story is "thick" from the start and everything remains the same", he added.

The blocks around the mosque, cut off to traffic by the police, were thick with city officials and people from the neighborhood.

I am right in the thick of it from the word go.

Only this one was perhaps a furlong thick from their side of the peak to the other.

The still air was thick with dust from high-rise construction.

She was slender throughout her upper body and thick from the hips down.

The air was thick with humidity from last night's storm.

The air had been thick and sweet from his marijuana.

"I think so," the fellow replied, his voice thick from lack of sleep.

"I started here in 1979 and back then the air was so thick from smoke that it would choke you," he said.