THORN in a Sentence

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33 example sentences for THORN, such as:

1. There is no rose without a thorn.
2. Truth and roses have thorns about them.
3. Every sinful act is a thorn piercing His head.
4. The thorn went deep into the flesh of my hand.
5. One puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel.

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 Meanings and Examples of THORN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
thorn
 n.  something that causes irritation; a sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  The animals chased them right down to the bottom of the field, and got in some last kicks at them as they forced their way through the thorn hedge.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
2  Words came to the surface--he remembered "a stricken deer in whose lean flank the world's harsh scorn has struck its thorn."
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
3  The pause was filled up by the intonation of a pollard thorn a little way to windward, the breezes filtering through its unyielding twigs as through a strainer.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
4  A fire was burning under a pollard thorn a few paces off, over which three kettles hung in a row.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
5  , just at nightfall, on a December evening, knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out in the town-hall.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKE...
6  Everything was on fire; the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the chamber.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
7  One puts on gloves before grasping a thorn cudgel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
8  It was fastened on the bush with a long thorn, and in a minute she knew Dickon had left it there.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  Every sinful act is a thorn piercing His head.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  It sat in a lot behind a rail fence and thorn bushes, near the sweetest of springs.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
12  This, however, none of them could ever do; for the thorns and bushes laid hold of them, as it were with hands; and there they stuck fast, and died wretchedly.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In BRIAR ROSE
13  He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In RAPUNZEL
14  The thorns soon began to tear his clothes till they all hung in rags about him, and he himself was all scratched and wounded, so that the blood ran down.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MISER IN THE BUSH
15  "No, nor felt such thorns," returned Laurie, with his thumb in his mouth, after a vain attempt to capture a solitary scarlet flower that grew just beyond his reach.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
Example Sentence:
1  One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
2  There is no rose without a thorn.
3  The thorn went deep into the flesh of my hand.
4  She screamed out when she pricked her finger on a thorn.
5  They flew over the lawn where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks.
6  The stagnation of the relocation issue has been a thorn in the side of relations between Tokyo and Washington since 1996 when the two governments agreed on the original plan to move the base.
7  Truth and roses have thorns about them.
8  If you lie upon roses when young, you'll lie upon thorns when old.
9  We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
10  They had to stop to pick out thorns from their feet.