How to Use thorny in a Sentence

thorny

adjective

• Leave it to the mouths of babes to solve the thorny issues.
  — WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• The gloves are best for pruning hedges and working with thorny plants.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Apr. 2023
• If just stems that sprout from below the soil are thorny, these are growing from the root stock and should be cut back to the soil surface.
  — Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2024
• One of the thorniest problems researchers sought to address was the link between thought and language.
  — Sonia Shah, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Even if the thorny insurer issues are solved, most of the battle still remains, said Doe-Simkins.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 31 Aug. 2023
• The task force’s debates highlighted a thorny push-and-pull between city and county.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2024
• But Dallas, like many Southern cities, suffers from a thorny past.
  — Abigail Ronner, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 May 2023
• Hip-hop has long posed thorny questions about how race and music interact and who has the right to profit from the culture.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
• The negotiations about who would bear the brunt of those cuts were extensive and thorny.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
• No doubt the thorny topic of regulation will be teased out further there.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
• Among the thorniest remaining questions is whether fuel will be allowed on the trucks.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• Tutwiler also faces a thorny situation with Boston Public Schools, with the system on the brink of a state takeover last year.
  — Naomi Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• The question of leadership at CNN has been a thorny one for its corporate parent.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 Aug. 2023
• Few knew how thorny such undertakings could be than Smothers, who died this week at age 88.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2023
• Wage growth is a particularly thorny issue for the Fed.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• But like with any thorny issue surrounding online speech, there is the First Amendment to contend with.
  — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2024
• But Lula will also need to tackle the thorny issue of organized crime.
  — Ciara Nugent, Time, 31 Oct. 2022
• To the families’ dismay, a focus of the court’s attention has been whether torture has tainted the case, a thorny topic that has slowed the path to a trial.
  — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• The spiky leaves have long been a symbol in Christianity of the thorny crown placed on Jesus's head at his crucifixion.
  — Samantha Lawyer, Woman's Day, 2 Feb. 2023
• The disagreement highlights the thorny issue that data centers present.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
• There are other thorny issues that will be discussed at this year’s climate summit, the first to be hosted by an African country in six years.
  — Marc Champion, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2022
• But the ongoing disputes are a thorny issue for both major parties.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
• To create a spooky arrangement inside, start with several thorny branches in a circle in the sand.
  — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• But their cordial exchanges only marked the tentative start of any effort to resolve a host of thorny disputes.
  — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022
• Most cases revolve around the thorny issue of copyright rather than privacy rights.
  — Emilia David, The Verge, 20 Sep. 2023
• American Fiction, like the novel it’s based on, tangles with some thorny questions.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 Dec. 2023
• There’s thorny history between Tassing and the nobleman, a patron of the abbey, owing to the latter’s less-than-savory visits over the years.
  — Vulture, 29 Nov. 2022
• As a news distributor, Facebook has a uniquely thorny record.
  — Meg Little Reilly, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• These days, openness on thorny topics amounts to saying the right buzz words again and again, then hoping everyone gets distracted and moves on.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2023
• The union was said to have reached a common understanding on certain thorny AI issues, such as how to handle an AI consent in the event that an actor dies.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024