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Example sentences for: thorns

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

First a young hairdresser in Stigmata collapses on a crowded dance floor as an invisible crown of thorns is pounded into her head.
(To Molina's list of bugs, sun, and windblown salt, I add cold; rain; thorns; poisonous plants; days or weeks without showers; steep, rugged terrain; snakes; lack of roads; lack of water ...)
Both were portrayed as thorns in the side of the royal family.
?" and a corporate villain who directs another character to "wake up and smell the thorns."
' Porcupine , from Latin, is a `pig with thorns.