thorn in English

noun
1
a stiff, sharp-pointed, straight or curved woody projection on the stem or other part of a plant.
Roses ramble over walls, branches stiff with thorns and laden with huge blossoms.
2
a thorny bush, shrub, or tree, especially a hawthorn.
‘They threw me over the back of a camel and told me they would kill me if I cried,’ he said, sitting quietly under a thorn tree on the outskirts of Turalei.
3
an Old English and Icelandic runic letter, Þ or þ, representing the dental fricatives / T͟H / and / TH / . In English it was eventually superseded by the digraph th.
Similarly, thorn may represent either a voiceless or a voiced sound: compare the current use of the digraph th in three and these.

Use "thorn" in a sentence

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

1. Thorn medical teams, construction, engineering.

2. Every rose has its thorn.

3. Recall Paul’s “thorn in the flesh.”

4. Thorn conceptualizes winter, she accesses Antipatriotically

5. A thorn stuck in her finger.

6. His finger was spitted a thorn.

7. Cutlasses of thorn stood guard at one.

8. A thorn in my side for too long.

9. The little boy stepped on a sharp thorn.

10. Coping With “a Thorn in the Flesh”

11. My shirt got hooked on a thorn.

12. Gino was a thorn in their side.

13. The dog had a thorn in its pad.

14. He's either the heir to the Thorn millions

15. Too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like thorn.

16. An optimist sees the rose; a pessimist the thorn.

17. He called it “a thorn in the flesh.”

18. The mouse kills the lion with the thorn.

19. There's a thorn or something stuck in him.

20. A real thorn in his dad's side, politically.

21. She had pricked her finger on a rose thorn.

22. Moreover, pearl neckline, silver thorn, edges with roses, brambles.

23. Thorn set a fine example as a humble elder

24. Their most upright one is worse than a thorn hedge.

25. He was on the line, but Robert Thorn was quarterback.

26. Zen Yi has become a thorn in the Lion's paw.

27. The thorn went deep into the flesh of my hand.

28. The shrike impales his foes on the spikes of thorn bushes.

29. In 1943, it stood like a thorn in the Allied side.

30. 3 synonyms for Catechu: black Catechu, Acacia Catechu, Jerusalem thorn

31. (2 Corinthians 12:7) What was this thorn in Paul’s flesh?

32. See: Gratitude relieves lion of thorn in paw Explanation of Androclus

33. These sounds add to the uniqueness and beauty of the whistling thorn.

34. The Germans and the Poles in Thorn 1871-1920: some press commentaries

35. They won't be a thorn in our side when we move forward...

36. Acanthous definition: resembling a spine or thorn Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

37. 11 Later on, Mephibosheth had to contend with another thorn in his flesh.

38. Although Jehovah chose not to extract that “thorn,” he did not desert Paul.

39. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. 

40. Kind Androcles plucked out the thorn and put the lion out of pain

41. The Bible does not state just what Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” was.

42. 3 One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. 

43. Three times Paul prayed that God would remove the thorn in his flesh

44. He's been a thorn in my side ever since he joined this department.

45. Although Thorn has backed away from chrome, other record companies are supporting it.

46. He's been a thorn in the side of the party leadership for years.

47. The sun blazed, baking the earth—the region was a thorn-infested frying pan.

48. I own 27 per cent of Thorn industries, left to me by your father.

49. Thorn slender acanthopanax piece what is He Guwei element kind medicaments, is there contraindication?

50. The tree is of the acacia species and is known as the whistling thorn.