Sentence examples for thorny ground from inspiring English sources

No doubt, there is a lot of thorny ground to cover.

Some fell onto thorny ground and were killed by the surrounding plants.

A lesson learned from Root Capital is that the all-too facile and often preachy rhetoric about free markets and globalization overlooks the thorny, on-the-ground work that is needed to actually make markets work.

The real mystery is the hurt and puzzlement of daily life in a movie that just "seems to happen, to grow out of the ground like a thorny plant, revealing the intricate nature of its design only in hindsight" (Scott).

It's a serviceable ballad, hard to butcher and tough to make your own, and thus a safe meeting ground for these three thorny individualists.

After two days spent in air-conditioned hotel rooms in Egypt and Israel, prodding Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Abbas on settlements, Mrs. Clinton traveled through the torrid heat of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley on Thursday, getting an on-the-ground view of the thorny issues, like borders and security, which have made Middle East peace such an elusive quest.

Once there, they dispersed among the thorny trees looking for patches of sunken ground which suggested something lay buried beneath.

Working with thorny dissonance but a gentle touch, he grounded the improvisation in an unsettled, wakeful vein.

Another shell, from a thorny oyster, contained a small amount of a ground pigmented substance that appeared to be a cosmetic or body paint.

Land is another thorny issue.

Cacti, thick-stemmed plants, thorny brush, and arid-adapted grasses make up the ground layer.