Example sentences for: thistle

How can you use “thistle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Two survivors among the countless fly-by-nights are Die Stachelschweine (The Porcupines, Europa-Center) and Die Distel (The Thistle, Friedrichstraße 101).

  • Sometime Thursday, Queen Elizabeth will take off her crown, put on a purple and green dress in a thistle pattern, and step into her carriage.

  • He cemented a peace treaty with England by marrying Margaret Tudor, the daughter of Henry VII — the so-called Marriage of the Thistle and the Rose — but this did not prevent him from making a raid into England in 1513.

  • Be sure to see the monogram of James — IR4 — on some of the stone brackets, along with the red rose and the thistle signifying the new alliance of Scotland and England.


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