Sentence example with the word 'thorny'

thorny

abstruse, barbellate, controversial, formidable, jawbreaking, nettlesome, pricky, setose, steep, toilsome, worrying

Definition adj. bristling with perplexities

Last update: August 2, 2015


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Some thorny cacti are beautiful.   [adjective]

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The brothers had a thorny problem over the property.   [adjective]

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A border of at least a meter, filled with thorny shrubs is a great burglar deterrent.   [adjective]

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The latex of this thorny succulent species is very caustic (Dalziel 1937).   [adjective]

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Peggy, hinny, gang saddle the gentleman's horse, and lead him cannily ahint the thorny shaw, and bide him there.   [adjective]

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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.   [adjective]

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He that sins against one of those laws is damned; and he--he had broken them all, broken them while striving to tread the thorny path to a life of blessedness.   [adjective]

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This is you, who have been as slippery as an eel this last month, and as thorny as a briar-rose.   [adjective]

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'Down, my good fellow; your joy is too boisterous for this narrow, thorny path.'   [Please select]

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The locust thickets characteristic of these slopes were thorny and close knit.   [Please select]

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