Sentence examples for into a thorn from inspiring English sources

The crossbench peer has turned into a thorn in the side of the ministers with whom he once clashed.

I also liked St. Wulfstan, who flung himself into a thorn bush so he would stop having certain kinds of thoughts about a girl he had noticed.

They could turn into a thorn in Vučić's side, resisting his pro-EU policies and calling instead for an alliance with Russia.

On one of them, Boyd falls backwards off a stone wall, six feet down into a thorn bush, confirming my sense of how dangerous walking is.

One false step would bring a 300-foot slide into a thorn bush--if you were lucky.

Ant behavior was observed until the item was (a) discarded actively from the plant, (b) accepted, i.e., carried into a thorn, or (c) ignored by 20 ants.

An hour into my tour, a thorn tree branch caught in my spokes and punctured my tire.

Up until now TTR's flagship games have been free, which helped them get great distribution (the original Tap Tap Revenge was the most downloaded game of 2008), but has turned into something of a thorn in Tapulous's side.

Over the same period, the company's "family tree" branched into something more like a thorn bracken.

(A personal aside: My attempt to use a ball chair ended after my dog ferried a thorn into my home office and the thorn lodged beneath the ball. I still haven't gotten the coffee stains off of the ceiling).

P. gracilis queens were regularly found in freshly opened thorns during September 2005 and twice were observed gnawing an entrance hole into a young thorn.