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Sentence Examples The site is dotted with rubble, Christ's thorn, and a few palm and olive trees. He gripped the thorn again, twisting it gently so that it followed its own path out. He is one of the fastest and most direct forwards in the Premiership and a constant thorn in the side of opposing defenders. After being a thorn in the music industry's side for years, Napster is now siding with the profit-making crowd. The trade deficit has been a thorn in the side of the U.S. economy for the past seven years. Recipes of love stimulants frequently contained such plants, especially henbane, mandrake, and in later times thorn apple. Neighbours consider him a kind person who is ready to help others, while criminals see him as a thorn in their side. I was a thorn in their side because I wouldn't go along with what they wanted to do. We will continue to be a thorn in his side, keeping a close eye on him and interfering with his criminal activities. The pure, liquid sounds of two bokmakieries perched in an Acacia thorn tree carry through the air. Giraffes are also missing from the crater as they favour the umbrella acacia and wait-a-bit thorn trees found higher up. In the mid 16th century a quarter of the walk was set with old oak and the rest with oak, thorn, maple, birch, hazel, withies, holly, and ash. Important are the accounts of opium, aconite, hemlock, and the thorn apple, showing careful study of widely known poisons. Every day he makes a pilgrimage to the spring, cutting his feet on roots, his flesh welted by branches and thorn bushes. Maguey is a kind of agave with succulent leaves and a sharp thorn on the tip. The Zulus supported the apartheid regime and are a thorn in the side of the new government, which is dominated by the Xhosas. He was particularly skilled at draining with hand tools and either laying or cutting thorn hedges. In the autumn it is intended to plant fruiting species of trees, including gelda rose, hawthorn, hazel, thorn and snowberry. The lions chased him, and savaged his leg before he fell into a thorn bush too dense for them to reach him. The Kalahari is a green desert, largely of low thorn scrub and acacia trees. Show More Sentences In the autumn we intend to plant fruiting species of trees, including gelda rose, hawthorn, hazel, thorn and snowberry. I wish to draw everybody's attention to the great value of all established indigenous trees and of camel thorn trees in particular. Instead of a well-equipped school their children are taught beneath the shade of a thorn tree. There is no rose without a thorn, but people getting all hot and bothered is not going to do Sligo any good. But there is no rose without a thorn and they stand for life's difficulties and tragedies. In 2002, when perpetual roadblocks became a thorn in the flesh of Lusaka bus drivers, a strategy was mapped out in Chawama to end the problem. Small trees resistant to cotton root rot include Jerusalem thorn, yaupon and wild olive. The African box thorn will grow on any soil, poor or rich, light or strong. The nuggety allrounder has been a thorn in the flesh of Border for a number of seasons and his inclusion will strengthen the home team's attack. We turn onto a narrow track steeply banked on either side by impenetrable thorn scrub. In desert regions, the corresponding form of field fortification is the zariba, an enclosure protected by thorn bushes. At least there I don't have to dodge overgrown thorn bushes and stinging nettles. At times, he has been a thorn in the side of successive political leaders, but as an orator he is one of the best crowd-pullers in the party. The safest way to assault this position was via a barely-negotiable, very steep, thorn bush-covered slope. Gavin returned to the danger area vintage mine, getting a large thorn in his foot on the way. Pulling pre-cut thorn bushes and branches across the cave entrance, he fashioned a kraal to keep his sheep safely hidden and boxed in the cave. His visits to the shrine have been a thorn that is increasingly irritating relations between the two countries. However, that thorn has yet to trouble the organisers, who are revitalising and expanding the event. Huge clusters of thorn bushes, fungus, tree roots and a carpet of dead leaves and pine needles made walking a chore. With the sun at its highest and the birds falling silent, I had a short siesta under a thorn tree. Show More Sentences Point out any potential hazards to the child, such as thorn bushes or poison ivy. When he reached Glastonbury he planted his staff, which then took root and grew into a thorn tree. Lizards with bright blue tails scuttled out of our way, taking cover among the thorn bushes and cactus that were the only greenery. Hedges of thorn and dog rose give way to hedges of neat privet, a suburban section where I felt a right Charlie booted and rucksacked. I had hopes that she would develop her twin strains of doughtiness and dottiness and become a thorn in the flesh. The lane petered out to track, the rain increased to torrential and dozens of lambs crowded under thorn trees, bleating. I had hopes that she, a campaigning journalist, would develop her twin strains of doughtiness and dottiness and become a thorn in the flesh. In some areas overseas, Christ's thorn has formed dense thickets and is considered to be a serious pest. He's still there of course, and will no doubt continue to be a thorn in our side, but the main danger now seems to be past. His uncompromising attitude continually made him a thorn in the Establishment 's side. Has there been a government in the last thirty years which hasn't regarded the our journalists as a thorn in its side? I'm going to be a thorn in their side until they deliver the school places, until they deliver the public transport, until they deliver the parks and the playgrounds. The court challenges program was certainly perceived by the government as a thorn in their side, an obstacle to their medieval policies. Studies indicate that the subtropical thorn woodland currently in existence will be completely replaced. He was the thorn in everyone's side, the gleeful imp who was just there to cause trouble. Tenure insecurity remains a thorn in the government's land and agrarian reform programme. The thorn in the flesh, one concludes by default, was a complaint of the spirit. They were a thorn in the side of the occupying Roman forces, who had to subdue these hostile natives if they were to establish, safely, the new capital of Londinium. A feisty nuisance of a forward, he was a thorn in their side throughout. We have to be a thorn in the side of this imperialist government. Show More Sentences From my early years, I have winced at a thorn in the flesh, and to this was also connected a consciousness of guilt and sin. A committed republican, he continued to be a thorn in Cromwell 's side, being elected to the protector's parliaments of 1654 and 1656, but prevented from taking his seat. To some people it is a thorn in the flesh, because extremists are in political control there. My persistent opposition has become a thorn in the side of the trade union leaders, because it has exposed their shameless collaboration with management. He followed in the tradition of Pierre Poujade, whose protest movement of irate petit bourgeois wielded a similar thorn in the waning days of the Fourth Republic. For the last four years the actions of this brave, independent Egyptian author has been a thorn in the flesh of his colleagues. The thorn branch is a canting reference to Thornton, and the quill pen represents Mr. Thornton's writing. Somalia is still a thorn in the flesh for the Horn of Africa and East Africa. However, a Democratic majority in the House or the Senate would be a real thorn in the side of President Bush and his administration. I want them to carry on being a thorn in the side of the Tories and Labour. To make a low cost and sturdy fence, plant a thick hedge around the edge of the pond or build a fence using poles and thorn branches. The Vietnamese government looks upon me and the UBCV as a thorn in its side. Ximenia oil is extracted from the kernel of a fruit that grows on a thorn bush on the African savannah, from Namibia to Zimbabwe. With respect to the business objectives of these major conglomerates, this isn't a thorn in the foot or a spanner in the works. Using thorn, apple and pear woods for heads and ash for the shafts, Philip mastered his craft, revolutionising play with shapes that, literally, broke the mould. We will continue to fight, to be there as a thorn in their side. Lack of transparency and accountability by various ad hoc control regimes are a perpetual thorn in the side of many states parties. Because their feet are not large or strong enough to hold prey, shrikes find a crotch in a tree, a thorn, or barbed wire to hang their prey on while they eat. Forget for a moment the season's immoral spending and hear the tale of the Edinburgh madam whose brothel was a thorn in the side of the residents of upmarket Stockbridge. For people do not pick figs from thorn bushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles. Show More Sentences In the new digital environment the free public offer of the PSB is a thorn in the flesh of many commercial media players. There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. This thorn in the flesh is most often understood to have been a physical infirmity that Paul had to cope with on a recurrent basis. This is a remote arid area of thorn bushes, ostriches, and minimal rainfall, but the town, Montagu, is famous for the production of muscatel, a sweet dessert wine. A tabletop bronze of a boy pulling a thorn from his foot, made around 1500 by the Renaissance sculptor known as Antico. Slowly we progress across the crimson lakes of sand, silver pools of sand, enormous hillocks of sand, skirting giant rocks and stubbornly vibrant patches of thorn bush. That freedom has been a thorn in the side of many cardinals who feel the sisters should be more conservative. The matching deodorant with aloe vera or sallow thorn and honey maintains this cared-for feeling throughout the day. Fuller became a thorn in the government's side on many other issues, particularly the great questions of royal finance, purveyance and impositions. Cut and bleeding, I finally managed to free myself from the thorn prison only to discover the last vestiges of sunlight disappearing over the horizon. Sanddorn Vital contains valuable sallow thorn oil. Lends the skin vitality and makes it supple and resistant at the same time. All of our plant oils, e.g. sallow thorn and avocado oil, are likewise strictly organically certified. But Carthage's success seals their fate, as its archenemy Rome grows jealous with this thorn in its side and ultimately annihilates it. Senator Blanche Lincoln was a thorn in the Democrats' side during the health-care debate. The Bolshoi will no doubt be delighted that the man who's been a thorn in their side for so long will now be fully occupied in St Petersburg. Now Basque restiveness is becoming a thorn in the side to the new Prime Minister. David showed it to experts at Kew Gardens, where they have a specimen of the plant, which is also known as thorn apple and Devil's trumpet. She found that soil salinity is not an efficient elicitor for the production of glycoalkaloids in field grown thorn apple plants. There is a variant of Honey Locust here that gets thorn clusters up to three feet long. Togodumnus died shortly afterwards, although Caratacus survived and continued to be a thorn in the invaders' side. Show More Sentences I cannot be like a thorn in the flesh of someone else. But some disagreed, most famously the eminent mathematician and perpetual thorn in the flesh of probability theorists, the French mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert. The Chinese side has known for many years that re-education camps have long been a thorn in the flesh of the European Union, because they certainly do not meet the normal international standards of human rights. Job had not seized the cause of his humiliating testing but Paul understood it because of the light he had received from above and particularly through God's refusal to exempt him from his thorn in the flesh. In view of the extraordinary nature of these revelations, to stop me from getting too proud I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to beat me and stop me from getting too proud! I quote from his 2nd letter to the Corinthians: «That I should not get above myself, I was given a thorn in the flesh, a messenger from Satan to batter me and prevent me from getting above myself. Renowned for her outspokenness as well as her haunting music and poetic lyrics, this beautiful young protest singer has become an equal thorn in the side for Algeria's bearded fundamentalists and corrupt armed forces. The implication is that Indian participation and interest in band councils is quite high, considering the fact that so many of thorn go to the trouble of running for office. His voice comes on a bed of roses every thorn out! My spruces looked too frail to be out and about in a world filled with Russian thistles and wild roses and thorn bushes. Another, Kelechi Osunwa was a constant thorn in the side of the Tunisian defence and his mazy run down the left flank set up the first goal for Eze just before the half-time break. As a last resort, I checked the bottom of my shoe, and there was the long, tough thorn of a black locust. The very things that have made Chávez a thorn in the side of the arrogant U. S. rulers have made him an idol for masses of impoverished barrio residents in Venezuela and for large numbers of young leftists around the world. It was necessary that your hearts awaken to good, and that the pain of seeing Me crucified for the love of them would act as a thorn that remind them, that you must all suffer for love in order to come to the Father. He was a constant thorn for the Algerian defenders and then showed his deadly class by jinxing his way past two of them, cutting inside and then sticking the ball into the net from an acute angle with the outside of his foot. The maquis of Bar's coastal area is comprised of the following: oak, holm oak, laurel, myrtle, Spanish broom, oleander, hawthorn, sloe, thorn, butcher's broom, asparagus etc. Vitamin B12-containing sallow thorn concentrates or extracts. Lefebvre and all four bishops were immediately excommunicated for participating in the illicit ordinations, but their movement has been a thorn in the Vatican's side ever since. I've ridden to soccer games and through villages, been chased by dogs, waved at by kids, gotten stuck in the mud, and torn my legs taking shortcuts through thorn bushes. Cutting through the thorn thickets surrounding small and light arms will require high-level attention and a degree of effort that seemed easy before but doesnt now. Show More Sentences The landscape is sand, punctuated by the occasional lone tree or clump of brush and littered with millions of plastic bags caught in thorn bushes and barbed wire fences. When cattle overgraze on grass, they create perfect conditions for thorn bushes to shoot up. Perhaps, like every rose has a thorn, every latent-variable SEM model begins with a contirmatory Factor analysis model. He pricked a finger. Every rose has a thorn. Isabella is a rose. Her father is a thorn. It became an important pilgrimage site because it housed a thorn said to be from the Crown of Thorns, given to the Duke by the King of France. So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her. Its thickness allows the animal to run through thorn bush without being punctured. By this stage, th was predominant and the use of thorn was largely restricted to certain common words and abbreviations. One major reason for this was that Y existed in the printer's type fonts that were imported from Germany or Italy, while thorn did not. Their marriage having broken down in 1604, his wife Elizabeth went on to become a formidable protagonist and thorn in his side. All the billions in the world and Manchester City still cannot rid themselves of the most persistent thorn in their side. Even individual castles could be a thorn in the flesh of a powerful kingdom. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the post of the Executive Director of the Kenya Roads Board has been a thorn in the flesh of the Minister. Today it has many additional names including stink weed, angel's trumpet, loco weed, devil's trumpet, and thorn apple. David Marsden Bridlington, East Yorkshire Hi David, Yes, that looks like the thorn apple which is an annual weed. However, every rose has its thorn, and alopecia universalisis no different. In traditional medicine, the flower, also called a thorn apple, is used to relieve pain and encourages healing. The western side of the region is the Kgalagadi desert, an expanse of undulating sandbelts and limestone outcrops, with a cover of grass and thorn scrub. He had been a thorn in Brunel's side throughout the project. The Lowveld of Swaziland, at around 250 metres, is less populated than other areas and presents a typical African bush country of thorn trees and grasslands. Show More Sentences Although the four are no longer part of the English or Irish alphabets, eth and thorn are still used in the modern Icelandic and Faroese alphabets. The target of his ire are clearly groups like Norm UK, which since its inception five years ago, has proved to be a thorn in the flesh of the pro-circumcisionists. Spanish and French attacks destroyed New Providence in 1703, creating a stronghold for pirates, and it became a thorn in the side of British merchant trade through the area. Eth fell out of use during the 13th century and was replaced by thorn. At the same time, varieties persist, almost like a thorn in the side of monoglots, as polyglots and aspiring heteroglots gently mock their monolithic and one-sided worldview. But every rose has its thorn, and the sharpest was yet to jab us. However, Shivnarine Chanderpaul remained a thorn in their side, just as he had in England's battling win at Old Trafford, by sccoring his second consecutive centry. My mother-in-law has had kale and carrots germinating under her bird feeders and I have seen the very poisonous thorn apple, Datura stramonium in these circumstances. Examples from Classical Literature He shall not have a solidus of my property if he does not give up the woman who is a thorn in the Queen's flesh. There was something, too, about Paul's thorn in the flesh, but I forget that bit. For their covering a mantle is what they all wear, fastened with a clasp or, for want of it, with a thorn. This unlucky newspaper was a thorn in the side of every patriot of Carlow County. The leaves of the coca, also of the thorn apple, are smoked or chewed by the South American Indian. This was mostly placed out of sight between the stones bordering the brooklet, or hung on a thorn that grew on the chapel wall. From the seeds of the thorn apple the Tenggerese make a sort of flour which is strongly narcotic in its effect. Two rose bushes rise from the grave and seek to intertwine, but a thorn interposes and makes the union forever impossible. The cockspur thorn is a small, handsome tree, fifteen to twenty feet high, with stiff branches in a broad round head. The moss rose will not bear the storms of winter, that the wild thorn can brave without danger. The plectrum used by the player is equally primitive being a fish-bone, a thorn or a bit of wood. This celebrated plant, commonly called the thorn apple, often grows on dunghills, and flowers in the month of July. Tlascala, indeed, was a thorn in the side of montezuma and the Aztecs. Was ever actual thorn more motionless or non-committal than most of these? You might even feel some sympathy for one of the neighboring clergy, to whom this godless young man has been for years as a thorn in their side. An alkaloid obtained from common henbane, and also from the thorn apple. The thorn stands rather for something painful and afflicting. In Aesop's Fables, Androcles saved his own life by removing the thorn from the paw of his natural enemy, the lion. Got a thorn in your shoe, or a stone-bruise, or a chilblain? There were clumps of thorn trees here and there, gorgeous in their spring radiance. Show More Sentences Children were gathering roots and thorn branches for firewood. The four cubs said nothing, but ran down hill on their bellies, melting into the thorn and under-brush as a mole melts into a lawn. The whole year round the thorn has been hardening and sharpening. Now he made haste thence before the lions returned, and came back to the thorn fence where we lay just as dawn as breaking. If food be mixed with the fruit of the thorn apple it causes intoxication. Westward, the wiry boughs of the bare thorn hedge which formed the boundary of the field rose against the pale opalescence of the lower sky. This time, the emphasis is on a fairy called Fawn who befriends a grouchy beast by pulling a thorn from his foot. Onions will surely be restored to the front line but to recall Harmison, England must grasp the prickliest thorn in the nettlebed. This plant is also known as Jimson weed, devil's trumpet, angel's trumpet, devil's weed, thorn apple, crazy tea, stinkweed or malpitte. Plants in the garden include aloe, wild ginger, safflower, wheat, henna, tamarisk, Christ's thorn, grapes, fig and pomegranates. For betwixt the oak-tree and the thorn Meseemeth erewhile was I born. Blessed with incredible powers, Granny becomes a thorn in the side of local felon The Scunner Campbell. He pulled out the thorn and bound up the paw of the Lion, who was soon able to rise and lick the hand of Androcles like a dog. What else could he do but speak to her in a soft, soothing tone, as if she were a bright-eyed spaniel with a thorn in her foot? You, who have been hitherto the thorn in my path, the cloud in my fate! I threw one of his varlets into a thorn hedge, and another into a water-butt, and a third landed head-first into a ditch. The thorn of Anna's inefficiency had always rankled in her flesh. It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. Those pesky financial stumbling blocks have been a constant thorn in the club's side during the Roman Abramovich era. The tire of the front wheel had been pierced, and a great thorn was protruding from the place. Show More Sentences I have obeyed the Law of the Jungle, and there is no wolf of ours from whose paws I have not pulled a thorn. Passing along the Ridgeway to the west for about a mile, we come to a little clump of young beech and firs, with a growth of thorn and privet underwood. I whispered her name, and she drew aside behind an aloe bush, and, making pretence that her foot was pierced with a thorn, she lingered till the other women had gone by. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of thorn? Words that rhyme with thorn What is the past tense of thorn? What is the plural of thorn? What is the adverb for thorn? What is the adjective for thorn? What is the noun for thorn? Translations for thorn Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words thorium thorite thorin thoria Thoreau thorax Thorn thornback thornbill thornbush Thorne thorned 5-letter Words Starting With t th tho thor