Sentence examples for a thorny patch from inspiring English sources

Soon enough, he could look at the regular season as simply a thorny patch in an uplifting journey.

A thorny tangled patch of brambles, a grotesque confusion of growth, twenty feet high, rolled like a rogue wave over the roof.

While Homer and the pilot fight, Marge remains unconvinced until the plane flies by and Homer drops out of it covered with roses after the plane flew out of control through a thorny rose patch, possibly giving Homer a collapsed lung.

This thorny patch comes just as the Yankees are starting to slump.

Beethoven never wrote a thornier piece.

Baumbach writes thorny patches of satirical dialogue, and his perceptions of people can be harsh.

There will be those thorny patches of misunderstanding and withholding, of demands for privacy and bedroom doors pressed firmly shut.

But it was great that the metaphor survived, because the beating heat between June and September gradually turned London's limited green patches into a thorny scrubpatch just like Eliot's.

"This is just one piece of a thorny puzzle".

Privilege in art is a thorny issue.

Still, it was a thorny situation.