While hiking through the ruins, we carefully stepped around the Egyptian thorns scattered among the sand.

The gardener carefully removed thorn apples from the overgrown hedge.

The museum displayed ancient crowns of thorns believed to ward off evil.

The persistent leak in the office ceiling has been a thorn in someone's side for months, forcing staff to move their desks every time it rained.

The implications of the Goddard-Thorn theorem were essential in understanding how physical states emerge from the quantization of the string.

She carefully stepped around the bastard umbrella thorns that had fallen across the trail.

A solitary bastard umbrella thorn cast a skeletal shadow over the arid trail.

She accepted the promotion, telling herself 'no rose without a thorn,' and braced herself for the extra responsibilities.

Late-night parties and the barking dog were thorns in someone's side during the quiet summer.

The chemist carefully analyzed the thorn-apple crystals under a microscope to determine their structure.