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• There's no way I'm going through the thorn bushes dressed like this!From the entry no way
• The second decade of the Rosary concerns the Sorrowful mysteries, such as the crucifixion and the crowning with thorns.From the entry mystery
• The isabelline (or Daurian) shrike is a greyish-yellow and hunts from prominent perches, impaling the corpses on thorns as a larder.From the entry isabelline
• The executioner’s blade is incised with Christ’s crown of thorns, and with the words of a prayer.2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 5. From the entry incise
• But every rose has its thorn, and the sharpest was yet to jab us.2014, Sophia Loren, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: My Life, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry every rose has its thorn
• However, every rose has its thorn, and alopecia universalisis no different.2014, Turney Hall, An Eagle Soars: One Man's Journey to Baldness, →ISBN. From the entry every rose has its thorn
• “if you lose your balance in those bushes, you end up with an arseful of thorns.”2010, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance. From the entry arseful
• Thorn stared stupidly at the ball, still at the eighthman's feet.2004, Pat Stevens, Politics Is the Greatest Game: A Johannesburg Liberal Lampoon, →ISBN. From the entry eighthman
• The crack and blast of a duel on the far side of the thorn ridge beckoned.2003, Thomas Goltz, Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent's Story of Surviving, →ISBN. From the entry onehandedness
• Even individual castles could be a thorn in the flesh of a powerful kingdom.2002, J. F. Verbruggen, The Art of Warfare in Western Europe, page 323. From the entry thorn in the flesh
• They were threaded with the curved thorns and pallid pinks of dogrose, like untidy stitching on a patchwork quilt.2024, Susie Dent, Guilty By Definition, Zaffre, page 111. From the entry dogrose
• African milk barrel is a clump-forming stem succulent native to South Africa, with grey-green stems covered in reddish brown thorns.2023 April 11, Paul Rees, The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Cacti and Succulents, Frances Lincoln, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry African milk barrel
• He trips and he cowps into the prickly thorns.2016 March 16, Angeline King, “Could Irish fiction sound a bit less, well, English?”, in Irish Times. From the entry cowp
• All the billions in the world and Manchester City still cannot rid themselves of the most persistent thorn in their side.2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The…. From the entry rid
• For the thorns and briers need a good scouring, confessing, in words, allegiance to a nobler, nemophilous wolf.2014, Neil Baker, Occultus Liber, page 36. From the entry nemophilous
• Mesquite thorns sliced into my hands, neck and face.2013, Chris Lombard, Land of the Horses, page 129. From the entry duckable
• Perhaps, like every rose has a thorn, every latent-variable SEM model begins with a contirmatory Factor analysis (CFA) model.2013, Todd D. Little, Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry every rose has a thorn
• I spot Sleeping Beauty in a thorn forest.2011, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta, Forge, →ISBN, page 172. From the entry rapunzel
• I WOULD HAVE been nine or ten when my mother chased me up a thorn tree with a ceremonial hippo-hide whip.2010 August 3, David Bennun, Tick Bite Fever, Random House, page 109. From the entry thorn tree
• But the rest of her body shivered, mandacaru cactus thorns penetrated the flesh that had been half-eaten away by the disease.2006, Graciliano Ramos, “Whale”, in K. David Jackson, editor, The Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story, page 214. From the entry mandacaru
• I would have been nine or ten when my mother chased me up a thorn tree with a ceremonial hippo-hide whip.2003, David Bennun, “After the Earthquake”, in Tick Bite Fever, London: Ebury Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 109. From the entry obnoxious
• Sew pieces together with rose thorn needle.2001, Mary E. Lyons, Knockabeg. From the entry ficklesome
• Under the influence of the Norman scribes the runic thorn and edh died away, being replaced in time by the th.1988, D. W. Cummings, American English Spelling: An Informal Description, page 210. From the entry edh
• This may necessitate canvas-shelled britches and a long-sleeved hunting jacket, since thorns, needles, and burrs are part of rabbitat.1978, Anthony J. Acerrano, The practical hunter's handbook, page 15. From the entry rabbitat
• Choice M.O.P. basket or bowl, shades from white to lemonyellow, lined in pink, frosted thorn handle, has small unnoticeable flaw.1955 May, “Choice Antiques”, in Hobbies: The Magazine for Collectors, volume 60, number 3 (advertisement), Lightner Publishing…. From the entry lemonyellow
• Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward.1912, Thomas Hardy, The Voice. From the entry norward
• Sometimes, while she rooted around in the weeds to place her camera, the meadow resisted—thorns scratched her arm and insects bit her fingers.2021 March 13, Sabrina Imbler, “A Bug’s Life”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN. From the entry in the weeds
• Burning gasoline-covered tents and corpses, bonfiring the thorn tree barrier, creating heat so profound it convoluted the air and made our plane bounce.2016 July, James Abel, Cold Silence (A Joe Rush Novel), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry bonfire
• They turned and ran dogward while I, motivated by their scorn, moved off lethargically through the vines, thorns, and creepers, a caricature of lethal determination.2015, Herb Payson, Blown Away, page 115. From the entry dogward
• Theodor Holm Nelson, who coined the term hypertext, has been a thorn in the side of the computing establishment for more than a half century.2013 December 16, John Markoff, “An Homage to Douglas Engelbart and a Critique of the State of Tech”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry Theodor
• However, every rose has a thorn.2012, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Little Star: A Novel, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry every rose has a thorn
• Deputy Speaker, Sir, the post of the Executive Director of the Kenya Roads Board has been a thorn in the flesh of the Minister.2001 June 13, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 1106. From the entry thorn in the flesh
• Some kiawes have no thorns but usually the youngest branches of the tree have thorns, which are bad for barefoot Island children.1996, Peggy Hickok Hodge, Gardening in Hawaii, page 80. From the entry kiawe
• The injustice of "alphabetism" is, of course, a thorn in the Zitser side, and he playfully promises to assign the problem to "alphabetically neutral" aides.1983, George F. Will, The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions, page 134. From the entry alphabetism
• She stops the car by an ochre-coloured bach at the end of the beachline, by the shelter of a massive thicket of African thorn.1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 163. From the entry bach
• “That is the only reason my people wear pants: to cover the legs in the winter, or when traveling through rough country, full of thorns.1933, Kenneth Roberts, Rabble in Arms, published 1996, page 220. From the entry pants
• The thought of July raspberrying brings recollections of heat, bugs, thorns, dead brush, nettles, and great stalks of wild tiger lilies scattered among the brambles.1933, American Forests, volume 39, page 347. From the entry raspberrying

Meaning of thorn

1. noun A modified branch that is hard and sharp like a spike.
2. noun Any thorn-like structure on plants, such as the spine and the prickle.
3. noun Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.

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Questions about thorn in a sentence

How do you use thorn in a sentence?

Thorn is used as a noun and verb. For example: “There's no way I'm going through the thorn bushes dressed like this!”

What is a short sentence with thorn?

“the cockspur thorn”

What does thorn mean?

Thorn means a modified branch that is hard and sharp like a spike.