thorn

Definition:
1. A small sharp pointed part on the stem of some plants, such as roses.
2. A tree or bush that has thorns.
3. Something that causes irritation and annoyance.
4. A sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf.

Use 'thorn' in a sentence:

• 1. The thorns hurt her fingers and blood came out.
• 2. Clinical analysis of 90 cases with chestnut thorn foreign bodies in eyes.
• 3. See how many thorns it has.
• 4. Julie Cordua, chief executive of Thorn, a group that has developed technology to help law enforcement officials detect sex trafficking, said about half of child sexual abuse material is formatted as video.
• 5. Research on color-protection technique of preserved May thorn.
• 6. She got her finger pricked by a thorn.
• 7. She's a real thorn in his side.
• 8. Rather than focus upon the thorns of life.
• 9. His friend has become a thorn in his side.
• 10. Richard Chamberlain has agreed to make a sequel to 'The Thorn Birds'.
• 11. One thorn of experience is worth many times of warning.
• 12. A jackal trotted west toward a stand of camel thorn trees.
• 13. "I   remember   your   present   of flowers and   how   the   thorns   had   hurt   your   fingers   but   you   carried   on   bravely.  "
• 14. Education: a thorn in China's upside.
• 15. Uploader for Outlook tackles a thorn in the side of any enterprise customer: email attachments.
• 16. A Structural Analysis of Consciousness of Ideal Life in The Thorn Birds.
• 17. But the thorn had not yet reached her heart, so the rose's heart remained white.
• 18. It is unbearable to be always on thorns.
• 19. The Boy sat down and the Lion put his paw gently in his lap while the thorn was cut out.
• 20. Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her.
• 21. Unlike a thorn, a prickle can be easily broken off the plant because it is really a feature of the outer layers rather than part of the wood, like a thorn.
• 22. The thorn apple has a strong purgative.
• 23. Analysis on main quality index of thorn pear juice marketed.
• 24. The thorns hurt his hand.
• 25. "He probably won't play until after Christmas," Thorn said. "We want him to be 100 percent."
• 26. It happened that we had recently seen in Paris the figure of the boy pulling a thorn out of his foot.
• 27. In this world there's no rose without thorns.
• 28. Roses will always have thorns but with care they can be avoided.
• 29. I was sitting on the thorns while waiting for the outcome.
• 30. I wonder why I become a thorn in their flesh.
• 31. The trees in fact concealed an ancient chalk quarry, now half over?grown with thorn trees and vines.
• 32. And I want my thorn transformed into a flower.
• 33. We have strived, broken through brambles and thorns, and crossed ten thousand rivers and thousands of mountains.
• 34. Lennon was a thorn from the first few minutes and England recognised his superiority by giving him regular service.
• 35. He was a thorn in the police's flesh.
• 36. And she showed her four thorns. Then she added:
• 37. One day, for instance, when she was speaking of her four thorns, she said to the little prince:
• 38. I'm as tough as a white-thorn knobstick.
• 39. I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but not once for my thorn.
• 40. Let him only see the thorn who has eyes to see the rose.
• 41. With its heart against a thorn.
• 42. But those villagers told Mr Thorn that what they needed most was access to the Internet.
• 43. She screamed out when she pricked her finger on a thorn.
• 44. "At the end of their treatments," Thorn said, "my patients say, 'I still have the pain. But the pain doesn't have me.'"
• 45. "Private Devotion and Power" includes one of the show's most impressive jewel-like objects, "the Holy Thorn Reliquary".
• 46. The dog had a thorn in its pad.
• 47. All night long you must sing to me, and my thorn must pierce your heart, and your life-blood must flow into my veins, and become mine.
• 48. The Party was a thorn in the flesh of his coalition.
• 49. The thorn went deep into the flesh of my arm.
• 50. She fell to reflecting again, and in looking downwards, a thorn of the rose remaining in her breast accidentally pricked her chin.
• 51. The thorn of bone may dislodge from his throat without surgery.
• 52. He removes a thorn from a lion's paw.
• 53. Thorn's electronics operation employs around 5,000 people.