Example Sentences

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"If netball decide to make a men's league, I'm up for it. Scottish Thistles - I'm in."

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2023

The top two teams from each of two groups will advance to the semi-finals, but with Jamaica also in Pool A that will be a tough task for the Thistles.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2022

Hearts & Thistles At Fort Lee, Va., where she is making a movie on life in the WAC.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hearts & Thistles Walda Eileen Winchell, 18-year-old daughter of Walter, who writes for the Hearst press, was sued for divorce by Boston Art Student William Lawless, 29.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thistles and goldenrod have grown up around it, like a thorny hedge, out of the mud.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood