Definition: 1. Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter. 2. Closely crowded together. 3. Hard to pass through because of dense growth. 4. Having high relative density or specific gravity.
Use 'dense' in a sentence:
1. There are numerous high buildings, heavy traffic, and dense population in modern cities.
2. Birch trees sprouted from the rubble and grew into a dense young wood.
3. The house was set amid dense trees and surrounded by an electrified fence.
4. Both oil and gas are less dense than water, so they generally tend to rise upward through water-saturated rock and sediment.
5. A dense column of smoke rose several miles into the air.
6. Lobell drove on and on through the dense and blowing snow.
7. There was dense smoke pouring from all four engines.
8. Less salty surface waters would be less dense and therefore less likely to sink and stir up deep water.
9. Traffic was slowed down by a dense fog.
10. The city has a dense manufacturing population.
11. The site is reached by a 30-minute hike through dense forest.
12. The hills were enveloped in dense fog.
13. The plane crashed in an area of dense jungle. There were no survivors.
14. His prose is vigorous and dense, occasionally to the point of obscurity.
15. The mountain area is covered entirely in dense jungle.
16. A helicopter landed in a clearing in the dense jungle.
17. They clearly prefer hardwood forests with dense shrubs, bushes underneath the trees.
18. in one of the most dense cities in the world,
19. The trees formed such a dense canopy that all beneath was a deep carpet of pine-needles.
20. Twenty million years ago, Idaho was populated by dense primordial forest.
21. They thrust their way through the dense crowd.
22. He's not a bad man, just a bit dense.
23. We fought our way through the dense vegetation.
24. We are talking about a lot of voids and a tiny little bit of extremely dense being.
25. There will be little respite from the dense data smog, which some researchers fear may be poisonous.
26. The terrestrial planets are mostly rocks: dense rocky and metallic material, with minor amounts of gases.
27. For example, the ostrich has plumage that is so constructed that the feathers are long but not too dense.
28. How can you be so dense?
29. London used to have dense fogs in winter.
30. During some periods, the bottom layer of the world's oceans comes from cold, dense water sinking in the far North Atlantic.
31. This depends on how dense their populations are.
32. The trees formed such a dense canopy that all beneath was a deep carpet of pine needles.
33. It was so thick, and the foliage so dense, that it was quite fatiguing to proceed.
34. Dense smoke swirled and billowed, its rank fumes choking her.
35. They walked through the dense Mozambican bush for thirty six hours.
36. They walked through the dense Mozambican bush for thirty-six hours.
37. Parts of the forest are still dense and inaccessible.
38. Where Bucharest now stands, there once was a large, dense forest.
39. The human hand is an extremely dense network of nerve endings.
40. He had a dense, ponderous style.
41. They used their knives to clear a path through the dense undergrowth.
42. Its fur is short, dense and silky.
43. This creature's fur is short, dense and silky.
44. This would lead one to expect a fat, dense and detailed autobiography. The reverse is true. The book is short and spare.
45. Twenty million years ago, Idaho was not the arid place it is now. Rather, it was warm and damp, populated by dense primordial forest.
46. The forest's dense growth provides nesting places for a wide variety of birds.
