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• A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail.1996, Lauraine Snelling, A New Day Rising, Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry tweep
• Burdocks, thistles, dwarf oaks, cottonweed, chalky holes and whitish puddles everywhere.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, pages 22–23. From the entry pauperize
• Ground cover of perennial grasses declined seriously under plots covered overwinter with dead thistle plants.1968, Earl F. Aldon, Detrimental Effect of Russian thistle on Semidesert Range in West Central New Mexico. From the entry overwinter
• Musk thistle is spreading rapidly in areas of eastern Idaho, especially in counties bordering Wyoming and Montana.1966 February, Robert E. Higgins, Musk thistle and its control, University of Idaho. From the entry musk thistle
• So, instead, he took to hoeing weeds — thistles and buzzies — from the nearer paddocks.1952, John Rowland Skemp, Memories of Myrtle Bank. From the entry buzzie
• There was thistle-spudding all over the Marsh; an army of thistles, an army of spudders.1936, Radclyffe Hall, The Sixth Beatitude. From the entry spud
• Also, for their national flower, the Scots chose a thistle.2014 September 14, “Scottish Independence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 17, John Oliver (actor), via HBO. From the entry englishman
• And the spicey smell of chadon beni is everywhere, blessed thistle, a cilantro which grows like a weed.2014, Monique Roffey, House of Ashes, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 312. From the entry spicey
• “It's almost as bad as swallowing thistle buttons.”1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 118. From the entry thistle button
• 'I was getting ready to let five of them west acres go to weeds, you know, they're so choresome to keep the thistle out of.'2009, David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars. From the entry choresome
• A compound of galanga, cubebs, sparrow wort, cardamoms, nutmeg, gillyflowers, Indian thistle, laurel seeds, cloves, Persian pepper is made into a drink.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 102. From the entry broth
• So the woods are silent, still, and deserted, save by a stray rabbit among the thistles, and the grasshoppers ceaselessly leaping in the grass.1905, Richard Jefferies, Nature Near London. From the entry ceaselessly
• Oh! hae ye watched him wave aloft The thistle ower the roses, While cowering, glowering Saxons quake At a towzier beard than Moses'1900, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, A Pictorial History of Political Events Connected with South Africa. From the entry towzier
• Away the boy ran, never minding a stubbed toe or a heelful of thistles that waylaid his course, and, setting the broken fence-cap against a rail, came panting back.1973, Arthur W. Biddle, Paul A. Eschholz, The literature of Vermont: a sampler, page 185. From the entry heelful

Meaning of thistle

1. noun Any of several perennial composite plants, especially of genera Cirsium, Carduus, Cynara, or Onopordum, having prickly leaves and showy flower heads with prickly bracts.
2. noun This plant seen as the national emblem of Scotland.
3. noun An image of this plant used as a charge.

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How do you use thistle in a sentence?

Thistle is used as a noun. For example: “A bird tweeped and twittered on a thistle by the side of the trail.”

What is a short sentence with thistle?

““It's almost as bad as swallowing thistle buttons.””

What does thistle mean?

Thistle means any of several perennial composite plants, especially of genera Cirsium, Carduus, Cynara, or Onopordum, having prickly leaves and showy flower heads with prickly bracts.