Sentence examples for using a thorn from inspiring English sources

A man in the camp was tattooing recruits, using a thorn and kohl, and although religious practices were forbidden, Arefaine had a cross imprinted on his right forearm.

Too poor to buy string to tie the pages together, he used a thorn from a tree.

Nor does needle-making, their early trade – "Who knows when someone first used a thorn and then a splinter of bone to pierce an animal skin?" interjects Light, surely desperately – seem the most interesting of crafts.

If you are using a flower with thorns on the stems like roses, carefully remove the thorns with either the blade of the scissors or vegetable knife.

In the communities, the flea is enucleated preferably intact using a safety pin or thorn and the remnant ulcer doused with pepper extract, plant oil or petroleum product.

Later, we were shown how to make a bird trap using a bush willow branch and thorns, with a piece of fruit for bait.

Meanwhile, Londoner Alfie Thorn, 18, has been using a telematics black box provided by ingenie for 15 months to reduce his premium and help improve his driving skills.

Currently, the thorn in the side of the MSC biologist is the lack of a definitive positive marker for MSCs; there is a myriad of reported positive markers, with each research group using a different subset of markers.

Slices were analyzed using an inverted epifluorescence microscope (Axiovert; Zeiss, Thorn-Wood, NY, USA).

We used a manual-based protocol derived from Thorn's model [ 33] that focuses on treating PC [ 34].

(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).