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UK
/θˈɔːn/
]
[ US /ˈθɔɹn/ ]
[ US /ˈθɔɹn/ ]
NOUN
- a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
-
something that causes irritation and annoyance
he's a thorn in my flesh - a Germanic character of runic origin
How To Use thorn In A Sentence
- He said residents of Thornhill had expressly asked for greater visibility of police on their estate.
- During this period, the Ontario Board of Censors was known to be the most liberal of all the provincial boards, and O.J. Silverthorne was the most respected film censor in Canada.
- Half way down there is a scrog of wood, dwarf alders and hawthorn, which makes an arch over the path. Prester John
- Men don't care how they look," said Thorny, squirming out of her hold, for he hated to be "cuddled" before people. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated
- And there is an even thornier problem: america's logging regulations are notoriously lax. Times, Sunday Times
- Another is a rangy assemblage of vicious thorns, called myrrh, a second gift of the Magi. NYT > Home Page
- The hawthorn-orange-milk sugar uses fresh and orange skin for the main sauce on the basic traditional milk sugar, meanwhile, it is the new sugar products to strengthen dietary fiber.
- The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park.
- As you float over this ledge watch for the infamous Crown of Thorns Sea Star.
- It's just a noise that might attract some birds, particularly things like wrens and thornbills, and saffron whitefaces which we've just seen.