Sentence examples for thorny with from inspiring English sources

The branches may be thorny, with alternate leaves that are entire (smooth edged).

Land-use issues in Westchester can be thorny, with emotions running high, but even at late night meetings with planning and zoning boards, Mr. Dittelman always remained calm and courteous, said Henry M. Hocherman, a friend and colleague.

It was a dazzling piece written in ersatz Scots dialect – "a theatrical speech thorny with images, knotted with strength, rough and springy as an uncombed fleece," said Ronald Bryden – but with too few concessions, some thought, to comprehensibility.

The surface of the aggregates turned thorny with increased hydrothermal growth duration, demonstrating that the CdS crystals have a tendency to grow along particular orientations from the surfaces of the initially formed aggregates (Fig. 1b).

The eternal startup question "Android or iOS first?" grows ever thornier, with news that Android's market share exceeds 80%.

They were best with cucumbers — the thorny ones with flowers — and some mashed garlic and sesame oil.

We learn about his thorny relationship with his wife, Mary Burke, and with his many slave "concubines," notably Sukey Ann, with whom he had four children and whom he finally freed just before abolition.

The agreement was made possible after Russia on Wednesday finally overcame a thorny dispute with Georgia tied to commerce with the breakaway Georgian provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Eight years ago, Clinton developed a thorny relationship with African-American leaders here amid a grueling and bitterly contested primary with Obama that was roiled by racial tensions.

These are thorny issues with no clear answers.

Poland has just buried a thorny dispute with Ukraine over bloody conflicts in both world wars.