Sentence examples for made of thorn from inspiring English sources

Kept in a make-shift pen made of thorn bushes, only three remain out of a herd that had once numbered two hundred.

In exchange, he received spears, arrows and a fetish (an object believed to have magical powers) of a long fish with teeth made of thorns.

Bukowski's strength is in the sheer bulk of his contents, the virulent anecdotal sprawl, the melodic spleen without the fetor of the parlor or the classroom, as if he were writing while straddling a cement wall or sitting on a bar stool, the seat of which is made of thorns.

In his church office, pastor Chuck Smith kept a crown made of thorns and a jar full of candy.

Islamic calligraphy also comes to mind when looking at Cui Fei's suite of mixed-media drawings, "Read By Touch" (2005-6), made of rose thorns arranged in lines on rice paper; the twirling forms and gridlike arrangement make the thorns look like script flowing across a page.

The Holy Thorn Reliquary is made of gold, enamel, rock crystal, pearls, rubies and sapphires.

THORN: The ruffles and the bow belt (which is made of Campbell's logo fabric) send the dress into cotillion territory.

Within that cat's cradle of associations Parker has had more than her fair share of eureka moments: in Bethlehem she filmed an Arab man who spent his days making crowns of thorns for Christian tourists.

Lamoriello stepped in and told the Nets' board to either let Thorn make the trade or fire him; either support his decision and do the trade, or don't make the trade and get rid of Thorn.

Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, a Republican who has made himself a thorn in the side of both Republican and Democratic administrations, says Congress rarely does enough oversight.

That work made her a thorn in the side of transport secretary Stephen Byers.