Thorn

//θoɹn//

"Thorn" in a Sentence (19 examples)

Every rose has its thorn.

Like a thorn stuck in your throat.

Just as a thorn stuck in one's throat.

There's a thorn in my finger and I can't get it out.

I got a thorn in my finger.

I have a thorn in my finger.

I understand that they are a thorn in the eye to people like you, but this is simply pathetic.

The rose and the thorn, sadness and joy are constant pairs.

Vanunu became a thorn in Israel's side.

Life is a rose that shows us in each petal an illusion and in each thorn a reality.

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On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns.

the white thorn

the cockspur thorn

There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.

The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, / Be only mine.

In Old English manuscripts thorn and eth did not have different phonetic values but were used positionally[.]

See also Etymology of ye (definite article).

[…] human nature is, above all things, lazy, and needs to be thorned and goaded up those heights where it ought to fly.

Even Judge Bradley's callused sentiments were thorned by the narration of Jaclyn's journals.

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