thistles
- plural of thistle.
Example Sentences
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The florist-by-trade gestures behind her to hundreds of flowers contained in buckets — blue thistles, ivory anemones and calla lilies painted silver — all twisted and unfurling into the air.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
Made of cloth of gold, it is embellished with motifs including fleur-de-lis, as well as imperial eagles, and national floral emblems of red-pink roses, blue thistles and green shamrocks.
From BBC • May 1, 2023
Most thistles are weeds that are extremely prickly but have beautiful flowers.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023
Modern cheesemakers in countries other than France often use other sources of rennet, such as microbial rennet derived from fungi or vegetal rennet from thistles, to coagulate their cheeses.
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2023
Add which had not been carefully mowed, the string became wound round thistles or tufts of gram, thus checking the hawk and doing damage to its training.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
