How To Use Thorny In A Sentence

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
the thorny question of states' rights
The dog hurt one of its pad when it stepped upon a thorny path.
Seingô shrieked in rage, and clawed out at him with spiny, thorny arms.
Industry leaders met in Los Angeles Tuesday night for a seminar on the thorny problem of downloadable music.

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These are also the most thorny and fundamental issues affecting Taiwan's management of cross-strait trade and economic relations over the past decade.
Scritch, scratch, scramble, through the thorny bushes!
High walls, fences, thorny hedges and bushes can all put off burglars, but make sure the front of your home is visible to passers-by
After dinner I read one of Miss Mitford's hawthorny sketches out of "Our Village," which was lying on the table; they always carry one into fresh air and green fields, for which I am grateful to them. Records of a Girlhood
But they are also thorny like a bramble, not bristly like a wineberry. Times, Sunday Times
There is no situation, however thorny, which is not saved by politeness. The Ancient Regime
Grow thorny plants like agave, barberry, cactus, Natal plum, and yucca under rear windows.
But having broached the thorny issue of using government entities to boost housing, the Fed didn't touch on questions surrounding a needed long-term revamp of housing finance. Fed Up With the Depressed State of Housing
Having artfully solved a thorny problem a week ago, the government has now embraced a deal whose terms reek of the bailout it was at such pains to avoid. The Real Cost
Last week he tackled the thorny issue of pensions in front of a group of retired folk with the use of cardboard slides to illustrate his points, looking and sounding more like a plodding professor than the next president.
So thick are the palisades of thorny mimosa -- an aggressive weed akin to the touch-me-not -- that India's endangered one-horned rhino can no longer move about freely in Kaziranga National Park. Attack Of the Aliens
Instead of dense woodlands there was dry thorny scrub, cacti and open bare dusty areas. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
He addresses this thorny question in his third book on the science of belief.
We passed a valley with the large thorny acacias of which canoes are often made, and a euphorbiaceous tree, with seed-vessels as large as mandarin oranges, with three seeds inside. The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
High walls, fences, thorny hedges and bushes can all put off burglars but make sure the front of your home is visible to passers-by
The lack of consistency in program labels and definitions nationwide creates a thorny obstacle to research synthesis.
The 9th of May, after another such an up-and-down course, ascending hills and descending into the twilight depths of deepening valleys, we came suddenly upon the Mukondokwa, and its narrow pent-up valley crowded with rank reedy grass, cane, and thorny bushes; and rugged tamarisk which grappled for existence with monster convolvuli, winding their coils around their trunks with such tenacity and strength that the tamarisk seemed grown but for their support. How I Found Livingstone
In the twenty-four-inch space at the right end of the hot dog there was a brown-yellow plain with just a few thorny trees a-thirsting on it and a pride of lions resting in the stingy shade beneath one of those trees, and far in the distance, too far for the warm lions to bother with, a herd of wildebeests was kicking up dust, and even further in the distance Mt. Kilimanjaro jumped up like God's own sugar-tit, and in a modest encampment at the foot of the peak, E. Hemingway was cleaning his Weatherby 375 magnum (not trusting the native boys to handle such an instrument) and slurping his gin. Another Roadside Attraction
The crossvine, bignonia ‘Tangerine Beauty’ entwined with Killer on the clothesline pole posed a thorny problem if it was to be saved. Killer- An Update « Fairegarden
Dubai's failure to make it harder for Iranian activities in the emirate is a thorny issue with federal officials in Abu Dhabi and the U.S. government, which is keen to choke off the Islamic republic from the outside world with new sanctions. Hamas Killing Exposes Dubai's Dark Side
The mesophilous semideciduous forest with fluctuating moisture has an arboreal story 8-15 m high, an undergrowth of microphyllous and thorny deciduous species (with leaves 1-6 cm long), and a rich herbaceous layer formed by numerous geophytes. Cuban dry forests
The last pitch is a memorable chimney with a thorny bush that you have to climb through.
The word "brier" or "briar" has no connexion whatever with the prickly, thorny briar which bears the lovely wild rose. The Social History of Smoking
Cook only partially reported what Marana officials did when they gobbled up 1, 200 acres at Tangerine and Thornydale roads.
I must confess that on this thorny question of tobacco and alcohol sponsorship, I'd be a bit of a maverick.
However, the most picturesque of all bee-eaters in the world is the crimson plumaged carmine bee-eater, which I had seen once - in a bare, dark thorny tree in Masai Mara, Kenya.
More recently, he has had to contend with thorny personnel issues.
Just to pluck at blind random one of the many very thorny Operation Relex circumstances from the bastardly murky and unexamined recent historical fray.
It all makes for a thorny geostrategic problem. Times, Sunday Times
Another thorny subject is redistricting. Houston Chronicle
There is no doubt that Port-of-Spain could do with cleaning up; but dealing with the perennial, thorny issue of vagrants is a far larger matter than merely one aspect of beautifying the capital.
An almost impossibly rich work, it explicates a host of thorny theological, philosophical, and epistemological controversies and positions (Marsden, for instance, insightfully draws the connection between, on the one hand, the intellectual appeal of dispensational premillennialism and the opposition to Darwinism and, on the other, the peculiarly American “non-developmental” understanding of history). Modernism, Minimalism, Fundamentalism
While she pursues information about the likely suspects, Isabel engages in delightfully thorny debates, with herself and others, about the possible outcomes of moral choices along the way. The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith: Questions
Shtcheglov calls me the Potyomkin of literature, and so it is not for me to speak of the thorny path, of disappointments, and so on. Letters of Anton Chekhov
Difficult and thorny issues are resolved by intelligent listening.
Companies today are now faced with the thorny question as to how they should spend their limited budgets.
We ended by pondering a thorny question: When should a nation fight against aggression?
Then there are animals that get tangled up in thorny or spiky vegetation. Archive 2006-05-01
I described how I'd had to climb up a steep and dangerous rock face to a thorny bramble bush on a narrow ledge, from where I could hear the cat meowing.
It was matted, thorny stuff that would tear unprotected flesh to ribbons.
There's a big bush on the side of the track, something thorny - blackthorn?
I described how I'd had to climb up a steep and dangerous rock face to a thorny bramble bush on a narrow ledge, from where I could hear the cat meowing.
(Heb. shittah, the thorny), is without doubt correctly referred to some species of Acacia, of which three or four kinds occur in the Bible lands. Smith's Bible Dictionary
For at its heart this election has highlighted the thorny, divisive issue of what that flag stands for.
The bark was extremely coarse and the branches were thorny and brittle.
It made it harder for his sympathisers to dismiss the whole thorny question.
Another thorny issue involves controlling inflation in the face of emerging market forces.
The dog hurt one of its pad when it stepped upon a thorny path.
And there's always that thorny question of what came before the big bang?
Petermann Etterlin, one of the early sixteenth-century Swiss authors who told the tale of William Tell, also wrote of how regional Governor Winkelried killed one of the termagant dragons: he wrapped thorny branches around a long lance and pushed this into the dragon's open mouth; then he finished off the beast with his sword. Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3
Together they walked home without a single pink rose in her hands, but with a good number of scratches from the roses 'thorny stems. Flower Stories
They are not unlike a field of teasels in blossom -- there are the thorny points of this strange plant, and the delicate and exceedingly beautiful blossom beside, resting on the very points of a hundred lances, with their lovely lilac bloom. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
It has evergreen and deciduous trees with two stories of trees 12-15 and 5-10 m high, some thorny shrubs, columnar or arborescent cactaceae, other succulents, herbaceae, epiphytes and dry lianas. Cuban dry forests
Drawn to freshly growing vegetation that sprouts during the rainy season, the giraffes can be seen in herds of 10 or 15, wrapping 18-inch black tongues (45-centimeter black tongues) around thorny acacia trees and combretum bush. Undefined
Acknowledging the huge job to be done, both in terms of explaining sports such as Boccia and goalball to the public, and raising the profile of the athletes, Hollingsworth admits there will be thorny challenges. Paralympics 2012: Tim Hollingsworth, the man in charge of the Games
Up close the island turned out to be covered in thorny scrub and seagulls’ nests. Going Coastal
The vegetation that develops there, due to the mass effect, includes the following types of vegetation: thorny plants located in the piedmont (0 a 300 m), deciduous basimontane tropophilous forests (300 to 550 m), cloud forests (550 a 700), Antillan scrubland (700 a 800), consisting of small trees with bush-like characteristics, and pseudo-paramo vegetation (800 to 830 m) with dwarf woody plants. Paraguana xeric scrub
When he had heard Shibli Bagarag to a close, the countenance of Shagpat waxed fiery, as it had been flame kindled by travellers at night in a thorny bramble-bush, and he ruffled, and heaved, and was as when dense jungle-growths are stirred violently by the near approach of a wild animal in his fury, shouting in short breaths, 'A barber! The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1
Unlike many top executives, he doesn't believe in committing thorny issues to paper.
For instance, this thorny bush was growing near the entrance to our dormitory.
The thorny branches almost seemed to reach out and grab him with each step he took, ensnaring him in their grasp.
There were also thick, gray thornbushes called chaparral, interlaced amid the equally thorny mesquite. The Lonesome Dove Series
Peter has written rather more of this than he lets on, leaving thorny problems of attribution for future historians.
The vegetation consists of succulent plants, cacti and terrestrial bromeliads, with thorny trees and bushes hitched to a sandy soil.
More recently, he has had to contend with thorny personnel issues.
The moat was drained of water with only moss growing at the bottom and the outside walls crawling with thorny vines.
The rose weaves in and out, becoming more or less rosey as the stemmy sandalwood and thorny marjoram comes to and fro. Archive 2009-02-01
As I pause to take in the panoramic views, a squirrel runs out of a thorny hedgerow, searching for food.
Flowering quince is Chaenomeles, that dense, thorny, spring-blooming shrub that comes in all those incomparably rich and tarty hot colors.
Diving hap-hazard into his book, Thorny demanded a "trifolium pratense. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated
It was this thorny question which bogged down the Saturday night delegates.
I've sucked down a filthy and delicious* one at a teriyaki joint in Hollywood, and I've loved the cheeseburger hiding between the carnitas and pibil at my local (and truly excellent) reader had found a rose among what one could fairly describe as the thorny situation of a Korean-California fusion lounge, my burger senses started tingling. A Hamburger Today
Each registers a distinct floral note — the lilies and gladioli for the funeral parlours, irises and tulips and birds of paradise for the wives of contrite husbands, pink and crinoline-white carnations for the velvet lapels of hopeful prom kings, thorny roses for the lovers and poets and perky daisies and mums and marigolds for the pick-me-ups and get-well-soons. Virginity
I've come to see the cactus as an organic metaphor for technology; a thorny ally in the artistic process.
It must be almost impossible to transmit significant messages through that thorny stockade. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
The terrestrial vegetation contains 16 of the 28 plant formations for Cuba, including low-altitude, submontane and montane rainforest, cloud forest, xeromorphic sub-thorny shrub, pine forests, semi-deciduous forest, riverine forest, and mangrove forest. Alejandro de Humbodlt National Park, Cuba
Nearly all roses are well equipped with sharp thorns, and some are very thorny.
They sparkled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood, and thorny stars. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
Thorny plants are unpleasant to rub against and trimmings from spikey, prickly plants placed under bird-feeders help protect our feathered friends.
Whether to hold a diversified portfolio is one of those thorny questions that never fails to get a group of investors arguing.
Tiwari said the lights had not harmed any one so far except that if one followed them one could be misled from the road into the thorny jungles. Archive 2007-08-01
However, the law left it to government regulators, in consultation with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, to answer the thorny question of which activities insurers can count as improving health. State regulators finalize recommendations on insurers' 'medical loss ratio'
Thorny, what is the matter with Ben?" asked Miss Celia, one day, when she and her brother were alone in the "green parlor," as they called the lilac-tree walk. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9
She is whip smart and has a low tolerance for tomfoolery, something Ray hasn't quite figured out how to deal with - he often ends up hanging himself as he backpedals out of the latest thorny situation.
It is a land that is difficult to grow anything in, except that flora which is tough, resourceful and thorny.
He killed 13 animals worth around USD 5,500, including a turtle, bearded dragons and thorny devil lizards.
Avoid thorny and spiny plants, which can cause serious eye injuries.
Some species use twigs from thorny plants, making the nests difficult for predators to destroy.
It spread the length of the long spit, a thorny barrier and shelter for birds.
Palm-trees are rare; we saw only a few scattered trunks of the thorny piritu and corozo. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
On my trip in Namibia, I watched from a blind amid the thorny scrub brush as a leopard crept up on a meal at sunset.
This thorny problem on the environmental protection floored the new mayor.
Drawn to freshly growing vegetation that sprouts during the rainy season, the giraffes can be seen in herds of 10 or 15, wrapping 45cm black tongues around thorny acacia trees and combretum bush. Taipei Times
The dog hurt one of its pad when it stepped upon a thorny path.
As I watch, it slips off the edge and rolls down the slope into a thicket of thorny bushes.
Even at this time of the year, the very beginning of summer, it sprawls dry, thorny and desiccated, in shades of tan, amber, and a hundred browns.
But in the UK, the important and thorny question of ethics is holding up research.
Whether the jewels indicate Mary was their client or their patron is the more thorny issue. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
Two weeks before, she had pricked her index finger on a thorny cactus.
He's confident, firm, unflustered and willing to debate the many thorny issues bedeviling SA rugby.
In addition, they could swim the roughest rivers, pack heavy equipment, and browse on greasewood or thorny brush that other animals could not eat.
He was a reforming works and pensions secretary who must tackle the thorny problems of invalidity and provision for old age.
Nests are built in cactuses or thorny vegetation or hanging from branches, and can be up to two meters long.
Mary, he'd soon discovered, was a keen believer in treading the thorny path. AMAGANSETT
Later she addressed the thorny question of American independence from the mother country.
Mingled with the artemisia was a shrubby and thorny chenopodiaceous plant. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
The unique fieldwork and " ethnographical " methods of modern anthropology provide an approach to solving this thorny aesthetic problem.
Even more thorny is likely to be the issue of school rolls, allocation of places and admissions policies.
Mr. Thornycroft has for some years used the locomotive form of boiler for his steam launches, working them under an air pressure -- produced by a fan discharging into a close stokehold -- of from 1 in. to 6 in. of water, as may be required. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
One theory is the sheep might have eaten at thorny hedges or developed a condition called Orf, an unconnected virus that causes blistering similar to that seen in foot and mouth cases.
The cat stayed there all afternoon, walking around the thorny mass which held the snake, spitting at it, hissing at it, miaowing. ON CATS
Must take a sip of coffee, the sapful spunk, then move on: my road is not thorny, that's for Jesus People, my road is smooth, the surface specious and nogood fumes effluence from it. Gyoza Express
A fresh row has erupted over the thorny issue of a northern bypass for Witham.
This thorny problem on the environmental protection floored the new mayor.
I begin my hike next to a rushing stream, picking my way through thorny bushes in search of the trail.
And it has two nice fences of tropical hardwood trees, you have the shade trees planted in year one, then you underplanted with the sugar palms, and you plant this thorny fence. Willie Smits restores a rainforest
'They're bringing it to Thornyhill, where the - er - principal disputants will foregather. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
'They're bringing it to Thornyhill, where the - er - principal disputants will foregather. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Ignoring the stones sticking into his knees, Jack carefully parted the thorny branches.
However, frequently burnt slopes support a rich growth of grasses including Arundinella setosa, Imperata cylindrica, Themeda anathera, and Cymbopogon distans and a number of shrubs such as species of Berberis, Rubus, and other thorny bushes. Himalayan subtropical pine forests
Not to be on the "Index" would call a blush to the cheek of the most unambitious of authors, -- would carry a presumption of worthlessness with it from which even the penny-a-liner would shrink with dismay, -- and to the poet and historian would sound like a sentence of perpetual exclusion from all those cherished hopes which irradiate with heavenly light the steep and thorny paths of intellectual renown. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
Scientists tackling the thorny problem of a foreign superweed hope a humble insect could halt its rampage across UK gardens.
As if sensing death they fought hard not to be caught, one beast even leaping the thorny fence.
This thorny problem on the environmental protection floored the new mayor.
It spread the length of the long spit, a thorny barrier and shelter for birds.
Yet all of these thorny questions will have to be addressed when inevitably he has a much smaller majority.
Without pausing she went forward until tall salal, wild spiraea bushes and thorny blackberry wands barred her way.
Deciding who should execute what role in defending the nation against cyberattack is a thorny issue, complicated by the fact that the agency tasked with assisting the private sector - the Department of Homeland Security - lags the Defense Department in personnel, resources and capabilities. White House reviews nation's cybersecurity
Only tough grasses and thorny tangle-bushes grew out there.
The claim has a certain surface plausibility, but it’s usually awfully hard to keep a straight face when contemplating particular examples, and the grounds for insisting that your retrospective intuition of obviousness is mistaken almost always amounts to pointing out that the first guy to file the patent was — they’ll keep saying it until you grasp this thorny concept — the first guy to file the patent. Two Kinds of Innovation
The dog hurt one of its pad when it stepped upon a thorny path.
The thorny acacia is a good property protecting plant. Boost safety: Security plantings protect homes
From his vantage point up in the thorny branches, Lena resembled a bird-watcher at a nudist ranch. Three Stages of Amazement
It must be almost impossible to transmit significant messages through that thorny stockade. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
The nest is, as a rule, placed in a babool or other thorny tree, close up against the trunk. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
In an effort to deal with this thorny question, I will propose a method for discerning the elements of worship.
We walked through thick thorny brushes, till we could go no further.
Given half a chance, she's rabbiting passionately about cultural strategies, architectural policies and the thorny problem of getting teenage girls into sport.
I cannot be concentrating on reciting lauds and compline at church, or on private prayers at home, and at the same time fully attend to my granddaughter's emotional needs - or talk over some thorny bioethical question with my husband.
Mary, he'd soon discovered, was a keen believer in treading the thorny path. AMAGANSETT
The big question is whether or not Namibia will take the bull by the horns and address the thorny question of inheritance.
LXX. and Vulgate render by rhamnus, a thorny shrub common in Easton's Bible Dictionary
The problem of personal identity can be thorny and frustrating.
Well, they've dealt with some pretty thorny issues in a reasonably tasteful way.
The dog hurt one of its pad when it stepped upon a thorny path.
The white blossom stands out against the black thorny branches.
Remove context and you remove the possibility of people thinking about awkward issues or raising thorny questions.
The first thorny issue that must be solved is an easy and memory - efficient method of parsing up this data so that one can simply select the field they are looking for and obtain the data in a one-shot, one-kill fashion.
According to CNN, "A thorny bush called marabu fills many of the unused fields and has become a symbol for the failure of agriculture. BrothersJudd Blog
The thorns are not slender and long like those of the corozo and other thorny palm-trees; but on the contrary, very woody, short, and broad at the base, like the thorns of the Hura crepitans. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
LESSON XXXII. re'gion, _place; space_. furze, _a thorny shrub with yellow flowers_. list'eth, _wishes; pleases_. mirth, _joy; fun_. boon, _gay; merry_. shaft, _an arrow; the stem of an arrow_. up borne ', _held or borne up_. crest'ing, _touching the tops of_. New National Fourth Reader
He is the only scholar to date to tackle that thorny question.
The thorny verdancy of geranium, the rootiness of vetiver, the dirtiness of patchouli, the rich sharpness of oak moss are tamed and softened by the mouthwatering vanilla and citruses coated in cinnamon sugar...the rose is caught in-between the two streams, benefiting from both, wild and delicate, green and honeyed, spicy and silky-smooth all at once. Archive 2009-05-01
Thornycroft was thus largely given free rein to devise an idealized image of Anglo-Saxon Englishness in his statue for the millenary commemoration.
Thorny shrubs planted outside ground floor windows can also be a good deterrent.
Especially interesting will be how Biden may be willing to take on a certain thorny issue, spoken in low whispers now. Blogtalk: The Biden Factor - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
A fresh row has erupted over the thorny issue of a northern bypass for Witham.
'They're bringing it to Thornyhill, where the - er - principal disputants will foregather. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
The thorny branches quickly entangled him, biting deeply into his skin.
Rutaceous-looking decandrous thorny tree, with foliis bijugis. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
In addition to the thorny proboscis, acanthocephalans are distinguished morphologically as cylindrical and unsegmented worms.
The boys argued over the thorny points in the lesson.
In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was necessary. Les Miserables
For at its heart this election has highlighted the thorny, divisive issue of what that flag stands for.
Eventually, he got up, went to the entrance and parted the thorny brush carefully, listening. THE LAST RAVEN
As time moved on, and in the process of looking for answers to difficult questions, the thorny issue of forgiveness cropped up.
Yet all this activity detailing the history of the blues during the twentieth century obscures a few thorny questions.
In Scotland, the fruit of the thorny shrub is called a bramble, while in England it is a blackberry.
He gives the following account of its habits: "The oorial is found among low stony hills and ravines, which are generally more or less covered with thin jungle, consisting principally of thorny bushes. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
This is a large genus of usually thorny shrubs, including raspberries and blackberries.
Rare, exotic but useless flora begin to bloom -- stinkweed, fungi, poison ivy, thorny briars. Bio-Politics; Nature vs Globalism, Conservatism and Libertarianism
Scientists tackling the thorny problem of a foreign superweed which has invaded Cumbrian riverbanks hope a humble insect could halt its rampage. News round-up
Wild multiflora roses are considered a nuisance by hunters who have to trudge through the thorny plants.
There were declines in abundance of broadhead wolffish and thorny skate. Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf large marine ecosystem
And scientific progress is a force that's apt to create, rather than solve, thorny ethical issues.
The issue of whether sport and politics should mix is a thorny one which endless talking will not smooth out.
The holly of the English Christmas, all-besprent with crimson drops, is hard to be found in New England, and you will have to thread the courses of the brooks to seek the swamp-loving black alder, which will furnish as brilliant a berry, but without the beautiful thorny leaf. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
The third album by this five-year-old U.K. act has a sweet but thorny simplicity all its own, morose at times and dramatic elsewhere, with large doses of murky tenderness that skillfully side-steps syrupy slop.
Grow thorny plants like agave, barberry, cactus, Natal plum, and yucca under rear windows.
Some sort of twisted, thorny wire netting had been erected across the opening, which led into a schoolyard. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
The vegetation almost entirely consists of low stunted, very ramous shrubs, and these are generally thorny. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
It was probably the thorny nabk, which grew abundantly round about Jerusalem, and whose flexible, pliant, and round branches could easily be platted into the form of a crown. Easton's Bible Dictionary
Without mandated standards, many corporate managers are left with some thorny ethical dilemmas.
Thorny _babul_ thrust their spiked branches out over the roadway, white with tufts of cotton torn by its thorns from bales, loose pressed, on their way to market in buffalo carts; "Babul the thief," the natives called this acacia. Caste
In addition, they could swim the roughest rivers, pack heavy equipment, and browse on greasewood or thorny brush that other animals could not eat.
Msuwa, a village situated in a populous district, having in its vicinity no less than five other villages, each fortified by stakes and thorny abattis, with as much fierce independence as if their petty lords were so many Percys and Douglasses. How I Found Livingstone
Around San Francisco and the bay counties you will count, after the poppy and baby blue-eyes, the shining yellow buttercup, the blue and yellow lupines that grow in the sand, the tall thistle whose sharp, prickly leaves and thorny red blossoms spell "Let-me-alone," the blue flag-lilies and red paint-brush, yellow cream-cups, and wild mustard, and an orange pentstemon. Stories of California
This thorny problem on the environmental protection floored the new mayor.
Alerted by phone, the local authorities had come to see what was happening in Mekhembar, a village of 1,500 people set among thorny acacias and baobab trees with their bulging trunks.
My garden in Arizona is filled with strange succulent plants and small thorny trees with green trunks.
We're creatively inspired by these really thorny issues.
I described how I'd had to climb up a steep and dangerous rock face to a thorny bramble bush on a narrow ledge, from where I could hear the cat meowing.
The plant itself is characterised by its long tapering sharp leaves with ribbed thorny ridges along the spine.
The twin problems of unresolved anaphors (such as pronouns, which refer back to words earlier in the text) and cataphors (ambiguous words signaling a term that shows up later in the text) are especially thorny.
She picked her way through the scattered broken branches and around the thorny brambles, trying to locate her friend.

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