1.   She struggled through holly thickets, forced through dense stands of winter blackthorn, still shrouded in dead leaf.

2.   It was found that growth and mortality were no greater in dense stands of conspecifics than in others.

3.   And finally, a dense stand of plants simply looks prettier than bare soil.

4.   Hemp, grown mostly for its fibrous stalk, is planted in dense stands.

5.   The change is fueling a resurgence of shoal grass in areas where dense stands of turtle grass died during the past several years.

6.   The savings, they say, could be used to hire loggers to help remove dense stands of dwarf trees from the forests.

7.   We went up and down hills through dense stands of spruce and birch, low branches slapping our helmet shields.

8.   Last week, the fire burned dense stands of juniper.

9.   Sawmills such as Joseph Timber in Joseph, Ore., are hungry for even the skinny poles that will come from thinning dense stands.