Any thorn-like structure on plants, such as the spine and the prickle.
Used in a Sentence
thorns
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for thorns.
Editorial note
My passion for them makes their thorns seem small and easily avoided, but the reality is that those thorns are sufficient to keep out a lot of curious people.
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Quick take
Any thorn-like structure on plants, such as the spine and the prickle.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of thorns gathered in one view.
Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a thorn bush.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for thorns.
noun
Any thorn-like structure on plants, such as the spine and the prickle.
noun
Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
noun
A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a thorn bush.
noun
A place name:
Example sentences
My passion for them makes their thorns seem small and easily avoided, but the reality is that those thorns are sufficient to keep out a lot of curious people.
Agree here - That has always been one of the thorns in accepting PayPal on any decent scale.
All that said, it's not all rosy in the Windows world, and not all thorns in the Ubuntu world.
Planting blackberries is not something to enter into lightly since they're a pain to remove (quite literally; there are thorns).
It had video of several of these big birds working in concert to flush and kill amongst thorns and bushes.
It would have been very difficult to look for the roses amongst the thorns back then.
Both of those points are becoming big thorns in our fundraising as investors want to speak with both founders' former bosses.
SublimeText has its thorns and warts of course too, but it is a smooth and fast editor when you get to know it.
Immobile things like plants have edged leaves, burrs and seeds to sink deep into furs, thorns to prevent casual damage, let alone poisons and allergens.
Javascript is not without its thorns and glitches.
And they were thorns in regular army side.
Wanting to transform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the whole world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns.
Quote examples
"Bed of roses" seems like a weird idiom because roses have thorns.
It's more in-between the "pioneers did not document the thorns they hit, so the others would not" and "the future is not evenly distributed yet, so we don't know about it" territory.
This has even provided what's very possibly our best bit of political rhetoric, " You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
And thus William Jennings Bryan's famous Cross of Gold speech: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." The gold standard meant that there was no ability to increase the monetary base (and thus no inflation!) at that time (1890s), causing much bitterness among populists.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use thorns in a sentence?
My passion for them makes their thorns seem small and easily avoided, but the reality is that those thorns are sufficient to keep out a lot of curious people.
What does thorns mean?
Any thorn-like structure on plants, such as the spine and the prickle.
What part of speech is thorns?
thorns is commonly used as noun.