Words similar to thorn

Example sentences for: thorn

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

and I had a Brown's Beach jacket with a reddish thorn in one of the pockets, which was my toothpick for thirty-five years, and a vest to match, and a flattened acorn I kept in the darkness; and I had a pencil
Clinton has asked Helms' new pal, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, to meet with Helms and try to remove the thorn from his paw.
If this is a thorn in your side, and Prudie believes it is, state your case, but be prepared to be disappointed.
Istanbul was forced to recognize this powerful thorn in its side as a semi-autonomous part of the empire, and granted hereditary status to the role of Pasha of Egypt.
In the Language Reference section one can find, in convenient tabular form, a listing of scores of languages, where they are (or were) used, the script employed, and useful notes indicating, for example, that the “Anglo-Saxon” of “Ancient England” used the “Latin” script “plus \?\ (edh), \?\ (thorn), and æ (ash or æsc).