“Goldfinches prefer thistle seed, which also attracts house finches and pine siskins.”

“I'd also like to take antioxidant vitamins and the herbs astragalus and milk thistle to help prevent a recurrence, but my doctors disagree.”

“Taking 500 mg of milk thistle before embarking on a long night of drinking often takes the edge off the after effects.”

“Like thistledown, she floats from one position to another, scarcely aware of him yet somehow connected, even dependent.”

“You could, of course, write a thesis about Wodehouse but the endeavour would be like trying to preserve thistledown between sheet glass.”

“It's fitting that thistledown, which provides Gilmore with an increasingly significant image over the years, should be the subject of one poem.”

“The flower heads are small and numerous compared to other thistles and the roots are extensive.”

“Tumbleweeds, the dense Russian thistles accidentally introduced to the west, are ubiquitous.”

“He parked the car in an alley surrounded by slick blackberry bushes whose thistles needled out with blood-red tips.”