| Without pausing she went forward until tall salal, wild spiraea bushes and thorny blackberry wands barred her way. |
| The lack of consistency in program labels and definitions nationwide creates a thorny obstacle to research synthesis. |
| Well, they've dealt with some pretty thorny issues in a reasonably tasteful way. |
| Grow thorny plants like agave, barberry, cactus, Natal plum, and yucca under rear windows. |
| Flowering quince is Chaenomeles, that dense, thorny, spring-blooming shrub that comes in all those incomparably rich and tarty hot colors. |
| The issue of whether sport and politics should mix is a thorny one which endless talking will not smooth out. |
