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Example sentences for "thorned"

Lexicographically close words:
thorax; thorgh; thoria; thorium; thorn; thornes; thornless; thorns; thorny; thoro
  1. Individual prunts (these 'thorned bosses' are more substantial than the thin surrounding glass) have occasionally turned up in excavations in London and elsewhere.

  2. Dwarf-palm is to be found on all sides, together with the arar or citrus, and the double-thorned lotus.

  3. It was no haphazard way, though bushes required careful watching, the double-thorned lotus being too common for comfort.

  4. For this cowboy was the spirit incarnate of the oncoming East, thorned on by the Lord to avenge his Church's crime.

  5. He made good time, as here the going was little obstructed by creepers or thorned "wait-a-minute.

  6. The undergrowth grew denser, so that he climbed with greater toil through the maze of thorned bush and snaky creepers that twined in enormous lengths across the forest floor.

  7. Swinging down by his legs and one hand, he thrust the thorned branch of acacia deep in under the ruff.

  8. Skirting a bit of jungle, so dense with massive cane and thorned creepers that nothing could penetrate it, they came suddenly upon a space of barren gray plain, and saw, straight ahead, the opening of the valley.

  9. I would not be thorned by him for all the money in the world, for he was a very uncomfortable sort of man to a debtor, and very obstinately insisted on collecting his dues.

  10. I told her the whole story from the beginning to the end—how I had been thorned by my uncle and by other creditors, and how I had been tempted to take the money from the bank.

  11. On the sloping walls in the more open sections of this valley grew the stubby-thorned chaparral.

  12. Strange that he should remember so quickly again the horror of a man gasping out his life with a thorned barb protruding from his side.

  13. It was as though all of his muscles and nerves were protesting the violence that had been done to him, and were seeking by muscular contractions alone to dislodge the stiff, thorned horror protruding from his flesh.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thorned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.