TWIG in a Sentence

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47 example sentences for TWIG, such as:

1. Best to bend while 'tis a twig.
2. Some birds build nests of twigs.
3. Birds build their nests out of twigs.
4. They used dry twigs to start the fire.
5. We collected dry twigs to start the fire.

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 Meanings and Examples of TWIG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
twig
 n.  small branch or division of a branch
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  He was very strong and clever with his knife and knew how to cut the dry and dead wood away, and could tell when an unpromising bough or twig had still green life in it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  He made one of his low whistling calls and the robin turned his head and looked at him inquiringly, still holding his twig.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  He had not gone far before he met an old miser: close by them stood a tree, and on the topmost twig sat a thrush singing away most joyfully.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE MISER IN THE BUSH
4  She would form these very neatly out of pieces of twig, and would then decorate them with a flower or two and walk round them admiring them.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
5  She took an enamel mug from a twig on a tree, and stooped to fill it for him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
6  When I came to I found that it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
7  The manager was switching his leg with a slender twig: his sagacious relative lifted his head.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
8  The dawns were heralded by the descent of a chill stillness; the woodcutters slept, their fires burned low; the snapping of a twig would make you start.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
9  The living trees, lashed together by the creepers and every living bush of the undergrowth, might have been changed into stone, even to the slenderest twig, to the lightest leaf.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
10  Now, I saw the damp lying on the bare hedges and spare grass, like a coarser sort of spiders' webs; hanging itself from twig to twig and blade to blade.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
11  "That one too, near the twig," she pointed out to little Masha a little fungus, split in half across its rosy cap by the dry grass from under which it thrust itself.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 5
12  And then had been spun between them an early morning thread before the twigs and leaves of real friendship emerge.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
13  Cold breaths of wind came, and overhead there was an anger of entangled wind caught among the twigs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  So he quickly took some larch twigs to the little brick fire-place in the corner, and in a moment the yellow flame was running up the chimney.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
15  When she came with her flowers, panting to the hut, he had already started a fire, and the twigs were crackling.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
Example Sentence:
1  A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree.
2  As the twig is bent so the tree is inclined.
3  He broke off a twig from a willow tree and used it to shoo the flies away.
4  Best to bend while 'tis a twig.
5  The silence of the forest was made evident by the occasional snap of a twig.
6  Individually we are weak, like a single twig but as a bundle we form a mighty faggot.
7  Pretty soon I heard a twig snap down in the dark amongst the trees - something was a stirring.
8  Birds build their nests out of twigs.
9  Some birds build nests of twigs.
10  They used dry twigs to start the fire.
11  We collected dry twigs to start the fire.
12  She used dried leaves and twigs to cover up the hole.
13  The way that the trunk of a tree divides into smaller and smaller branches and twigs is an approximate fractal pattern.