Collocations for thick - adj.

be, feel, look, seem

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
Use fairly thick wads of newspaper.

be, look, seem
become, get
The paint is getting too thick. I'll have to thin it down.

extremely, fairly, very, etc.

be, feel, look, seem
become, grow
The air had grown thick and smoky.

extremely, fairly, very, etc.

with
The air was thick with dust.
The atmosphere was thick with tension. (figurative)

Thick is used with these nouns:
accent, air, armour, atmosphere, batter, belt, blanket, bundle, bush, canopy, cardboard, carpet, cloak, cloud, clump, coat, coating, coil, consistency, cord, cover, cream, crust, curl, curtain, custard, deposit, discharge, door, drape, duvet, envelope, eyebrow, eyelash, fabric, file, fog, foliage, forest, fringe, fur, glasses, grass, hair, haze, hedge, hide, ice, ivy, jacket, jumper, jungle, layer, leather, lens, line, lip, liquid, make-up, mane, mascara, mat, material, mist, moustache, mucus, mud, neck, overcoat, pad, paint, paper, paste, quilt, sauce, scarf, scrub, sheet, shell, shrub, skin, skull, slab, slice, slime, smoke, snow, sock, sole, soup, spectacles, stem, stick, strand, strap, strip, stroke, sweater, tangle, texture, thigh, tights, towel, trunk, underbrush, undergrowth, vegetation, velvet, volume, wall, wire, wood, wool, yarn, yogurt