A few thick-walled species can be bored to insert pegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The gold was produced in the form of thick-walled straws.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Call to Arms]

The fuel tanks are thick-walled, making them hard to damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot] Reference

They had built a thick-walled cottage, 25 feet high and with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference

These layers of thick-walled cells constitute the = exodermis =.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

It became critical with a thick-walled reflector of beryllium oxide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venus in Danger]

All round the xylem and the phloëm there are many thick-walled cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Going into his love was like going into a castle, a thick-walled place.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Lion Feeds]

The epidermal cells and those below and in contact with them are thick-walled.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

Ash from each dead man went into a thick-walled mortar of plain, unworked gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Magnificent]

Scales of rhizome and stipes narrow, of firm texture and with thick-walled cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

Just below the piliferous layer two or three layers of thick-walled cells are seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The parenchymatous cells in the centre of the stele become thick-walled in older roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

There was a thick-walled fort to pass through, before one even set foot upon the causeway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

The project turns its thick-walled back to a bordering viaduct and protects itself from noise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tokyo Time For Vinoly] Reference

These samples he placed in special thick-walled phials that sealed with a telltale vacuum hiss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Blade]

The epidermal cells as well as the layer of cells in immediate contact with it are thick-walled.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

All in all, he hoped-mostly-that their "improvements" would penetrate the thick-walled barracks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chaos Balance]

They are thick-walled, and the contents resemble those of the cluster-cup spores described above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

It was a thick-walled building made of gray stone that had been a godshouse before the Recreation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catspaw]

South, and from cool, thick-walled adobe buildings to hot, glary tents in the midst of summer heat!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

Observe a small thick-walled vessel with open mouth from which may be pressed a few drops of blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

The former shows on cross-section a thin-walled central tissue surrounded by a zone of thick-walled cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The peripheral cells of the seta are thick-walled, and it has a central strand of elongated conducting cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Al-Khiam is a thick-walled fortress built by the French in southern Lebanon in the early years of this century.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Quiet Diplomacy] Reference

A thick-walled concrete building with high, boarded windows and missing doors stood toward the rear of the barn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dangerous Hour]

These vessels together with the numerous small thick-walled cells lying between the pitted vessels constitute the xylem.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference

The superficial cells are thick-walled, and there is a central strand of narrow cells forming a water-conducting tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Some of the old casemates and thick-walled magazines still remain, and are occupied by the families of a few old pensioners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference

They are very thick-walled, the walls being dark-colored, so that in mass they appear black, and constitute the "black-rust" stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

He jabbed a needle probe into the thick-walled sac, let his carrybottle fill with the red liquid, and slapped a patch on the hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Furious Gulf]

Eckhardt hopes to use this new knowledge of internal architecture to understand how bipeds benefit from thick-walled femur shafts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Bipedal] Reference

Classic Mesa Verde with its thick-walled bowls and flattened rims, its superb polish, and precisely executed designs, reached Chaco.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference

The green strength of highly plastic clays is much greater than sandy clays and thin green pots will break before thick-walled ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Kilns] Reference

The second is a small, but thick-walled, rectangular structure of brick which may have been a food storehouse or even a powder magazine.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference

It was cool inside the thick-walled barracks buildings, and he collapsed onto a bench until the sweat dried and his heart stopped pounding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deathworld] Reference