"thick" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Hutton had camouflaged his criminality well, the veneer thick and brightly polished.
- These are usually owing to wood shrinkage and reveal themselves most often in antique items, which have relatively thick veneer that is not as flexible as thinner, modern veneer.
- "It has a lovely, crusty old surface and a thick veneer that had been cut by hand," he said.
- But in the Pequod's case this has been negated by the thick veneer of barbarity that has been overlayed onto the ship in the form of fantastic scrimshaw embellishment.
- She was a Tibetan, and of no high rank, which is to say that she was oily, covered with a thick veneer of dirt, and pig-eyed.
- She could no longer identify her own Englishness - it was lost under the thick veneer of assumed Italian ways and manners.
- Planum Boreum is home to a permanent ice cap consisting mainly of water ice (with a 1 m thick veneer of carbon dioxide ice during the winter).
- The biggest visible change in his coaching life was a thicker veneer of professionalism.
- Brooklyn-bred, with a thick veneer of theatrical charm, he seems at first an unlikely collaborator for a man who cries at carols.
- Soon Picard spied the figure of a man, human in appearance, sitting upon a granite boulder covered by a thick veneer of frost.
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