“The constant distractions during the meeting were a thorn in his side, preventing him from focusing on the task at hand.”

“Roses will always have thorns, but with care they can be avoided.”

“The thorn bushes surrounding the garden were a deterrent to would-be trespassers.”

“Numerous studies have shown, however, that prickliness, spinesence or thorniness decreases with increasing height in the crown.”

“Brash dissonances dissolve into invitingly harmonized passages, which then climb back toward thorniness.”

“Avid moviegoers should be singing the director's praises from the rooftops for daring to thrash out the matter in all its imperfect, dark thorniness.”

“To the right Moses in front of the burning thornbush, to the left Moses on Sinai receiving the tables of the Law.”

“Pentuer directed the prince to look at a distant hill, on the summit of which was a thornbush.”

“All parks in these countries preserve representative woodland, thornbush, grassland, and succulent-desert habitats and species.”

“Traces of thorns can be observed on the surface of the distal part of all rays.”

“It peeked beyond the brushes of the thorns that surrounded the dark enchanted lands of Ardor.”

“They're very tough and soaked in paraffin, like English Barbour coats, so they're very water-repellent and won't snag on thorns.”