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Sentence count:113+4Posted:2017-03-24Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: irritantprickerpricklespikeletspinestickerSimilar words: hawthornhornhornyauthorplethorathoroughauthorizeauthorityMeaning: [θɔrn /θɔːn]  n. 1. something that causes irritation and annoyance 2. a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf 3. a Germanic character of runic origin. 
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31. I was born at Thorn House on the same day - or night - as Donna Hazell.
32. Others carried head-bundles of leaves and grass for the sheep and goats now penned behind thorn fences beside the houses.
33. Although Thorn has backed away from chrome, other record companies are supporting it.
34. Thorn scrub is widespread on the lower slopes, although the upper slopes still support secondary pine-oak woodlands.
35. He ended up in a thorn bush where he finally managed to break free from his billowing parachute.
36. Jean remained at the hostel and continued to attend the Jules Thorn Unit.sentencedict.com
37. Its nail was a rose thorn; she allowed it to scratch at her skin, making a faint red mark.
38. Together they made their way to the patch of thorn bushes which was Sabina's preferred place for drying.
39. Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge.
40. Feel briar and thorn snag heel and heart and soul, but never think that hiding is the end of it.
41. John Thorn, who makes red boxes for ministers, is standing by for a rash of orders.
42. Thorn said that midsummer sunset was observed from a small platform on a steep hillside overlooking the stone.
43. Take a dry, dormant savanna, desert or thorn scrub and rouse it into spring with rising temperatures.
44. Lee Thorn got what he deserved and what he was entitled to in our system -- a fair trial.
45. Then there was just a bank where rabbits obviously lived, topped with thorn trees.
46. I called across a tall thorn fence towards the shelter.
47. Certainly thorn trees occur along leys, and planting is a way of establishing a mark with relatively little effort.
48. Thorn threatened after the Van Exel incident to severely punish the next player who made physical contact with a referee.
49. The Volksgerichte had long been a thorn in the flesh of the administration of justice in the Reich.
50. A democratic committee of journalists? - a thorn bush for the editor to hide in.
51. Elizabeth understood, though neither would have put it into words, that her mother was a thorn in George's flesh.
52. But for the Thorn deal cash, the bottom line would have looked very shaky.
53. Shaking off years of symbolic retirement, hedges now bristle with the double thorn of enclosure and exclusion.
54. Colette works at marshalling our feelings of revulsion at this voracious creature who has almost killed the poor box thorn.
55. Thorn Lighting, of Borehamwood, is one such company which specialises in providing lighting for tennis courts.
56. The cart-track crossed by a brick culvert and climbed the opposite slope to a five-barred gate in the thorn hedge.
57. Palace had Andy Thorn stretchered off with concussion, but he was given the all-clear after X-rays.
58. The horse landscape Today in a horse landscape horses steam in the lee of thorn hedges on soaking fields.
59. It galloped towards the boy in silence, swinging a thorn bush from its arm.
60. Thorn EMI owns the rights to music from many top Broadway shows.
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