Synonym: close, compact, compressed, crowded, dull, heavy, solid, stupid, thick. Antonym: dilute, sparse, thin, weak. Similar words: sense, offense, license, defense, expense, intense, density, in a sense. Meaning: [dens] adj. 1. permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter 2. having component parts closely crowded together 3. hard to pass through because of dense growth 4. having high relative density or specific gravity 5. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity.
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91 South-facing slopes where snow lies late support meadows of grass and herbs; drier ridges carry a dense growth of dwarf shrubs.
92 When baked, the loaf is usually thick-crusted and dense and does not color to a dark gold.
93 Shrubs for autumn interest include the berry-bearing pyracantha, which also displays dense clusters of hawthorn-like blossoms in the spring.
94 Distant walls disappear in a fog of dust as dense to the eye as the black fogs of old London.
95 Britain has a particular problem because of dense population and a policy of promoting road use at the expense of public transport.
96 It forms dense growths that are short in bright situations but taller in half-shade.
97 I was not the only one enjoying the apples, nor the new dense growth of trees.
98 He detected an inscription of Kleomenes on the figure's clothing, obscured by a dense network of incisions.
99 Even after they have dropped, they are valuable, lying in a blood-red pool under the dense thicket of branches.
100 The billet has to be highly dense and of high integrity and will be used to make new kilogram mass standards.
101 The Fallen Road development used to be a thick pine woods with small scrub oak and dense thickets of cabbage palm.
102 Like all liquids, water that is less dense tends to float upon water that is more dense.
103 During summer a dense green or olive carpet is formed on the bottom.
104 As the pace of deforestation picked up, the area of land covered by dense forest declined considerably.
105 We watched the men bundle up their parachutes and move off through the dense undergrowth, chopping at it with jungle machetes.
106 Environmentalists have also criticised the dense smoke from buses which pollute the town centre.
107 Nightingales appreciate an open tree canopy with plenty of dense undergrowth and thicket below to provide nesting sites and shelter.
107 Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
108 Half an hour later and we were ready for a ride through the dense vegetation and forests of palms.
109 It flings its fine hairs in the face of the assailant, in a dense cloud.
110 Further gravitational segregation of the iron core means that denser material moves inwards displacing less dense material outwards.
111 It will be remembered by old Spitfire pilots for its boggy runway and dense fog.
112 Over the millennia it has come to be surrounded by a dense thicket of folklore.
113 Voice over Firefighters wearing special protective clothing made their way through the dense smoke towards the fuel flask.
114 I was at a point of crisis, lost, paralysed in the midst of a dense fog.
115 The tiger gained its stripes by evolving in dense jungle and wet, reedy areas.
116 In a gravitational field this causes the denser air to sink and buoy up the less dense gas.
117 Weather satellite images of the area taken from synchronous orbit show an immense circular area of dense clouds above the impact site.
118 It's now a sociological and historical fact that gay men and lesbians have constructed this dense network of relationships and communities.
119 Army helicopters could not land because of the mountainous terrain and dense jungle.
120 It is dense and heavy and bread crumbs from previously baked loaves are added to the dough.
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