thorn

Example Sentences

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Long a key growth driver—and Nike’s biggest market outside North America—China has become a thorn in its turnaround efforts as Nike faces fiercer local competition and cooling consumer demand.

From The Wall Street Journal

At this, the thorn of guilt rammed deep into Clare’s flesh.

From Literature

“And that we have somebody that was a former All-Star pitcher, someone that was a thorn in our side as the Padres, and becomes a thorn in the side for other people.”

From Los Angeles Times

But while playing one day, he got a thorn in his eye.

From BBC

Until one drizzly raw afternoon when just enough light came through the window to read by, I came to Paul’s account of his “thorn in the flesh.”

From Literature