Sentence examples for Not thorny from inspiring English sources

If the foliage is not thorny, the giraffe "combs" leaves from the stem by pulling it across the lower canine and incisor teeth.

There are points within our study grids where you literally have to tuck into a ball and use your feet as skis, hoping that you can stay upright while sliding down, or just go ahead and slide down on your bottom and hope that you can grab onto something not thorny or venomous to slow yourself down.

They described that the main vegetation types associated with the C. annuum ecotypes in northeastern Mexico were thorny shrubs, followed by not thorny shrubs, forests of Prosopis, forest of oak-pine and medium size plants that are not thorny shrubs.

But a jeremiad, almost by definition, will not let thorny details stand in the way of a good romp, so let's set aside these cavils and play along.

The intense emotion and complexity of these three sonatas blossom not in thorny counterpoint but, in the final movement of the final sonata, in a melting Arietta, opening like a flower, then gilded with the purity of the highest reaches of the keyboard.

Taken in full, Dropbox indeed has a rare opportunity though is not without thorny challenges.

So, my daughter isn't a shrinking violet, but she isn't a thorny rose, either.

Not that the thorny issue of immigration was one that Cox ever sought to dodge.

It did not address many thorny issues, leaving them for the National Assembly to sort out after the December elections.

Not quite as thorny as we've come to expect from an end-of-week puzzle, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

As an academic, she has written extensively on gender and sexuality, and as an administrator, she has a history of tackling — though not always successfully — thorny disputes.