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.
