thistly

Example Sentences

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“Eddington,” Ari Aster’s twisty and thistly modern-day western, is set in New Mexico during that first hot and crazy summer of the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2025

And this was before you got to his extended blurb on the inside jacket: “Fear of Flying stands as a notably luxuriant and glowing bloom in the sometimes thistly garden of ‘raised’ feminine consciousness.”

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2014

Yet defining what it means to be courageous has often proved as thistly as distinguishing the wise ones from the fools.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2011

Murray's "cutpurses, burglars, father-beaters" become, in Young's thistly translation, "houssbrakars, sporranslitters, daddie-dadders."

From Time Magazine Archive

This makes Dad chuckle under his breath in a thistly way.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson