How to Use thorny in a Sentence

thorny

adjective

• Leave it to the mouths of babes to solve the thorny issues.
  — WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• The gloves are best for pruning hedges and working with thorny plants.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2023
• For now, the thorny problem is there just aren’t enough humans who want to do the work.
  — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• The Utah farm's ground is rough and covered with thorny brush, Cooley said.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 15 June 2022
• The leaves were massed between and behind thorny rose shrubs along the borders.
  — Ian McEwan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• The issue of how to handle donations to the protests is perhaps the most thorny.
  — Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 18 Feb. 2022
• Those are thorny issues that Garland will need to weigh.
  — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2022
• My mom’s thorny shrug to my question told me there was no use asking why.
  — Hazlitt, 14 Aug. 2024
• If just stems that sprout from below the soil are thorny, these are growing from the root stock and should be cut back to the soil surface.
  — Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2024
• One of the thorniest problems researchers sought to address was the link between thought and language.
  — Sonia Shah, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Even if the thorny insurer issues are solved, most of the battle still remains, said Doe-Simkins.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 31 Aug. 2023
• The call lasted more than two hours, according to the White House, reflecting the long and thorny agenda.
  — Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 28 July 2022
• The task force’s debates highlighted a thorny push-and-pull between city and county.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2024
• What had been a binding decision on the merits of a thorny issue was swept away.
  — John E. Jones Iii, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024
• But Dallas, like many Southern cities, suffers from a thorny past.
  — Abigail Ronner, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 May 2023
• Hip-hop has long posed thorny questions about how race and music interact and who has the right to profit from the culture.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• The negotiations about who would bear the brunt of those cuts were extensive and thorny.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
• No doubt the thorny topic of regulation will be teased out further there.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
• The deployment of conscripts is a thorny issue in Russia.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
• The vegetable, a relative of the thistle, features leathery, thorny green leaves or petals attached to a round base.
  — Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022
• Among the thorniest remaining questions is whether fuel will be allowed on the trucks.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• Tutwiler also faces a thorny situation with Boston Public Schools, with the system on the brink of a state takeover last year.
  — Naomi Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• The question of leadership at CNN has been a thorny one for its corporate parent.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 Aug. 2023
• Few knew how thorny such undertakings could be than Smothers, who died this week at age 88.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2023
• Wage growth is a particularly thorny issue for the Fed.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• The Bachelorette that is truly unique and provides its own thorny moments.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2022
• Border Patrol had picked up a smuggler leading a team of migrants through thorny brush.
  — Rick Jervis, The Courier-Journal, 31 May 2024
• First of all, the draft-pick compensation is already something of a thorny issue.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2022
• But like with any thorny issue surrounding online speech, there is the First Amendment to contend with.
  — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2024
• Wheat fields began encroaching on the thorny shrub jungles around farmlands in his village in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
  — Anupama Chandrasekaran, NPR, 30 May 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024