Modifies a noun

• fog: Tuesday, January 26 The dense fog is over all things.

• undergrowth: They can run at fast speeds even through dense undergrowth.

• thicket: On the southern bank of the Brook, there is a fairly dense thicket, through which a pronounced ditch runs to the stream.

• vegetation: The islands interior is covered in dense tropical vegetation, which provides a welcome shady canopy.

• foliage: The dense foliage of trees was always a major cause of anxiety.

• jungle: On my right, a monkey hangs atop the dense jungle, peering down with curiosity.

Modifying Another Word

• unusually: But sometimes, when the Earth glides through an unusually dense clump of comet debris, the rate increases.

• fairly: On the southern bank of the Brook, there is a fairly dense thicket, through which a pronounced ditch runs to the stream.

• extremely: Now, unless we are extremely dense, we can hardly miss what Luke is saying.

• relatively: The relatively dense road network has encouraged this pattern of piecemeal development.

• too: If your page is too dense, your reader will quit out of it as soon as their eyes begin to tear.

• quite: They have a scratchy white abrasive side and a normal but quite dense sponge side.

Used with adjective complement

• become: He came to the part of the woods where it became dense.

• appear: The Rheinberg image lacks subtlety and is harder to pick up finer detail whilst the crossed-polar image appears rather dense.

• seem: I did not read it at the time I held it in my hands because it seemed too dense, too impenetrable.

• get: The gas gets more dense toward the center but it doesn't form a surface.

Preposition: in

• place: The reviewer states that if Kehily is dense in places, this is sometimes impenetrable.

Preposition: of

• planet: Saturn is the least dense of the planets; its specific gravity ( 0.7 ) is less than that of water.

Preposition: than

• air: This is because the gases which cause cot death are more dense than air.

• water: In fact, Saturn is actually less dense than water - it would float in the bath!