Then she duckwalked away from the body and tugged a couple of thick, leafy weeds out of the ground.

Running through the high thick weeds was like wading in water.

A grown-up Sheridan tried to run through the thick weeds and escape the endless tunnel in which she was trapped.

'Well, no train has been out of this tunnel here for years,' said Julian, looking at the thick weeds.

Underneath him the thick weeds moved as if in the wind, and minnows darted here and there.

But thick weeds, yards of them, ahead of him.

New cane had started to grow, interspersed with high, thick, stringy weed.

Phragmites are thick weeds that crowd out animal life.

The twisted hulks of burned cars lay here and there about the houses, entwined with thick weeds.

They stopped twenty feet from the gate in thick, wet weeds.