thistles in English

noun
1
a widely distributed herbaceous plant of the daisy family, which typically has a prickly stem and leaves and rounded heads of purple flowers.
It attacks the thistle 's leaves and stem, forming orange-brown lumps called pustules.
2
a thistle as the Scottish national emblem.
Also known as cotton thistle , it is native to Mediterranean Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "thistles" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "thistles", or refer to the context using the word "thistles" in the English Dictionary.

1. Flowers and plants: thistles, mint, Bryonies, honeysuckles

2. If Theophilus Thistles, where is the sieve of unsifted thistles Theophilus Thistle, the thistle - sifter, sifted?

3. She sifted thistles through her thistle - sifter.

4. Flowers and plants: thistles, mint, Bryonies, honeysuckles

5. Before them can be seen thorns and thistles.

6. Thorns and thistles will grow on their altars.

7. And thorns and thistles it will grow for you.”

8. Thorns and thistles+ themselves will come up upon their altars.

9. I thought if I could capture the thistles, then...

10. They swept a road through the thistles and thorns.

11. Abel could clearly see the thorns and thistles that fulfilled those words.

12. As an adult, it eats flower nectar, preferring thistles, balsamroot, and phlox.

13. Artichokes are thistles, which is a family of flowering plants characterized by prickly leaves

14. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they?

15. Theophilus Thistle , the successful thistle - sifter, Sifted sixty thistles through the thick of his thumb.

16. The large Apollo butterfly (3), with its vivid-red wing spots, flutters among the thistles.

17. Theophilus Thistle , the successful thistle - sifter, sifted sixty thistles through the thick of his thumb.

18. He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines , thistles , and very irascible brambles.

19. As for their desirable things of silver, nettles will dispossess them; Thistles will be in their tents.

20. The Moores, LeGrowes, Baggses, Thistles, Butt's and Kings all married each other like crazy there in Broad Cove

21. + 18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field.

22. True, Jehovah had placed a curse upon the ground, causing it to produce thorns and thistles that impeded agriculture.

23. 21 They guided cars to the curving verges of grass, once mown close, now high and grown with thistles.

24. 24 Thorns also, and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

25. Stress, hazards, boredom, disappointment, competition, deception, and injustice are just some of the “thorns and thistles” now associated with it.

26. 30 The seed falls on four different types of soil: the footpath, rocky ground, among thistles and on good soil.

27. He went cautiously out into the field, squatted down against a clump of thistles and began to smell the wind.

28. Artichokes are thistles, which is a family of flowering plants characterized by prickly leaves. Although they’re typically cooked whole, only parts …

29. The name originally meant “place of thistles” or “thistle covered place.” By law, if a label says “Chablis,” it must be Chardonnay.

30. Outside Eden, Adam and his family ate bread in the sweat of their faces because the cursed ground produced thorns and thistles.

31. How I led him out of the garden and into a rough and stony place where naught but thistles and brambles grow!

32. Synonyms: eternally, nonstop, unendingly; see also Thesaurus:continuously 1905, Richard Jefferies, Nature Near London: So the woods are silent, still, and deserted, save by a stray rabbit among the thistles, and the grasshoppers Ceaselessly leaping in the grass

33. I have learnt, by bitter experience, that continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and Benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles.

34. The effects of the cursed ground, with its thorns and thistles, were so keenly felt by Adam’s descendants that Noah’s father, Lamech, spoke of ‘the pain of their hands resulting from the ground which Jehovah had cursed.’ —Genesis 3:17-19; 5:29.

35. I have learnt, by bitter experience, that continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and Benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles.

36. Paul used the word ka·taʹra in likening Christians who fall away after having partaken of holy spirit to the “ground” that is unresponsive to rain and that produces only thorns and thistles (Heb 6:7, 8), while Peter uses the same word to describe as “accursed” those who are covetous, who “have eyes full of adultery” and entice unsteady souls. —2Pe 2:14.

37. Kok'-'-l (King James Version margin "stinking weeds," the Revised Version, margin "noisome weeds"; bo'shah, from Hebrew root ba'ash, "to stink"; batos): "Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and Cockle instead of barley" ().On account of the meaning of the Hebrew root we should expect that the reference was rather to repulsive, offensive weeds than to the pretty corn Cockle.

38. 195 [ previous page ] Blazon Arms Argent on an island Vert, to the sinister an oak tree fructed, to the dexter thereof three oak saplings sprouting all proper, on a chief Gules a lion passant guardant Or; Crest On a grassy mount a blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) reguardant crowned with the Royal Crown and bearing in its beak a leaf of the red oak tree (Quercus rubra L.) fructed proper; Supporters Two foxes (Vulpes fulva) Sable embellished Argent, that to the dexter gorged with a collar of potato blossoms proper, that to the sinister gorged with a length of fishnet Argent, both on a mount Vert set with a Mi'kmaq star Azure between lady's slipper flowers (Cypripedium acaule), red roses, thistles, shamrocks and white garden lilies proper; Motto PARVA SUB INGENTI;