How To Use Twerp In A Sentence
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There's never a constable around when you need one so the only recourse was that taken by the driver of a bus who sat thumping the horn repeatedly until the twerp came along to move and clear the jam.
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From Madrid via Alexandria en route to the city of Antwerp, the current stopover is New Delhi.
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England -- are mostly extremely handsome, and generally contrive, however big, to retain, at any rate in their heart, as at Antwerp, or in the Grande Place at Brussels, a striking air of antiquity; whilst some fairly big towns, such as Malines and Bruges, are mediaeval from end to end.
Beautiful Europe: Belgium
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She finished third in the world cross-country championships in Antwerp.
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Antwerp Games proved that winter sports were too specialized.
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He argues that, just as Antwerp's golden age depended on openness, so will its future.
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The Hughes intersected the River Scheldt and altered course eastward, the roadstead and Port of Antwerp growing on the horizon.
CORMORANT
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That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I'd only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound.
Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman'
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'Professor Palafox/the maestro thundered,' usury is usury and we inust allow the merchants of Antwerp no Mexican loophole through which they can defile the law of the church. '
Mexico
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The Allies needed to control the West and East Scheldt - areas of sea to the north-west of Antwerp.
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It's time to wipe the floor with those twerps once and for all.
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A stands for Antwerp, Austerlitz, Agata, Aychenwald, and scores of other proper names round which the novel moves.
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The close cooperation between Kimberlite and its Antwerp supplier perfectly combines the advantages, resources, knowledge and skill of from both side to better serve the market.
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He became a haberdasher and Merchant Adventurer, growing rich on the cloth export trade to Antwerp.
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I want them to be fluent in Flemish and to pronounce Antwerpen with a hint of vh embedded in the w.
Excerpt: I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
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During his adult career he held positions, often short-lived and variously as choirmaster or succentor, at churches or cathedrals in Bergen op Zoom, Cambrai, Bruges, and Antwerp.
Archive 2009-05-01
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She bade farewell to her mother at Nyköping, then hastened to Halmstad, where she dismissed her retinue, and went to Brussels by way of Hamburg and Antwerp.
Kristina Wasa, Queen of Sweden
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By all accounts, he's a bit of a loner, doesn't suffer fools gladly, is a bit of an obnoxious twerp, a shy, intelligent, social misfit.
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Goya will obviously survive these twerps, whose names will be forgotten a few years from now.
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[200] Gregoire de St. Vincent (1584-1667) published his _Opus geometricum quadraturae circuli et sectionum coni_ at Antwerp in 1647.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
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The composition was designed to brighten up a wealthy Antwerp merchant's dining room.
Times, Sunday Times
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He hangs out with the suedes at Bido Lito's and gets up and plays this godawful tenor sax whenever they let him, which is frequently, 'cause who wants to refuse a crazy man, even a little skinny twerp like Tommy?
White Jazz
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Moreover, despite the butchers' sizable landholdings, the sixteenth-century speculative real estate boom in Antwerp passed them by.
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Like Ostade's yokels, the topers of Brouwer's Antwerp frequent a lower sort of tavern than those of Teniers and Steen.
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At first he planned a reproduction of Rubens 'palace in Antwerp, open _loggie_ for studios, leafy gardens covered with flowers at all seasons, and in the paths, gazelles, giraffes, birds of bright plumage, like flying flowers, and other exotic animals which this great painter used as models in his desire to copy Nature in all its magnificence.
Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)
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He's just an annoying twerp who contributes nothing.
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The composition was designed to brighten up a wealthy Antwerp merchant's dining room.
Times, Sunday Times
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Twenty-four of the Antwerp forts were still holding out today in face of a continuous bombardment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Great entertainers are treated shabbily, while callow, shallow twerps land their own series after half a dozen gigs.
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Those twerps could set his blood boiling in a matter of seconds.
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In the intellectual climate of Antwerp there emerged a fashion for 'encyclopaedic' paintings, such as Frans Francken's Cabinet of a Collector, which celebrates human artistic achievement alongside the curiosities of nature.
Art Knowledge News
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During his adult career he held positions, often short-lived and variously as choirmaster or succentor, at churches or cathedrals in Bergen op Zoom, Cambrai, Bruges, and Antwerp.
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But this is supposed to be the big, golden-era throwback drama to remind us that TV can be about more than singing competitions featuring twerps in daft haircuts and distressed jeans.
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[Sidenote: History of the York-Antwerp rules.] rules in their contracts of affreightment and contracts of insurance (see INSURANCE: _Marine_).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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After marrying, the couple fled across Europe, holing up first in Antwerp, then London, then (this is where, for me, the story, for so long so fruity, gains the stamp of dreary authenticity) Hull and finally Belfast.
Dan Edelstyn: My quest for the family spirit
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Turning tables on twits and twerps, not to mention Tweedledees & Tweedledums, seemed like good idea at the time.
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Alas, the ‘aliens’ (affectionately called ‘customers’ and ‘clients’) know they wouldn't be caught dead wearing a button, so you must be a tosspot, a troll, or just a twerp.
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The ship's mates would be here at any minute, and I would lose my charter to Antwerp if I was caught.
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They also provided maintenance support at the port of Antwerp, to help repair deadlined vehicles on the spot so they could be loaded into the ships on schedule.
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However Fisher resigned over the Dardanelles fiasco and this coupled with Antwerp, the Dunkirk circus, the apparent loss of paramount naval supremity and Gallipoli all forced Churchill to resign.
Eraser Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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Obviously, these twerps won't do the dirty work themselves.
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Shortly after returning to Antwerp, Piot read a report from Los Angeles describing five young men -- all "active homosexuals" -- who'd suffered months of thrush, fevers and weight loss before dying of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
The Life of a Virus Hunter
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But it is silent in Antwerp, Brussels and Leuven, as in The Hague, Amsterdam and Utrecht.
December Books 14) The Year's Best Science Fiction, 22nd Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
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At 97, he can still recall the teeming shore that was the Antwerp waterfront as he experienced it in 1922.
First Stop on the Journey to Ellis Island
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Gregory of St. Vincent, Opus geometricum quadratura circuli et sectionum coní (Antwerp, 1647).
INFINITY
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Then she jabbed herself into the crowd and shoved many people to get to the front while saying, ‘Move it, twerps!’
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An 88-passenger riverboat, River Cloud, will travel on the Danube River from Amsterdam to Antwerp.
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In 1551, Antwerp's aldermen had begun a campaign to develop and commercialize their city's southeastern quadrant.
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The earliest paintings showing lacquered objects were the works of Antwerp artists.
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Yesterday Antwerp introduced a...help me out here, mill? carrousel? that they had ordered from...the creators of The Elephant of Nantes.
Utopiales Poster, Part 7: The Painting
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Daring to break into the famous World Diamond Center in Antwerp - where more than half of the world's diamonds are traded - the group made out with $100 million in jewels and other loot.
Hail to the Thieves: Famous Heists We Love
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We will continue production in Antwerp until the end of this year.
GM's Opel to Close Belgian Plant
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From 1608, when he returned there from Italy as his mother lay dying, Rubens made Antwerp his base.
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And so it happened formerly, in the city of Antwerp, that a married woman, who was not the chastest person in the world, was desired by a good fellow to do–you know what.
16 « August « 2007 « Jahsonic
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Larger stones of a carat to three carat still come largely from Israel and Antwerp, and the proportion of Indians selling such stones, though growing, is still small.
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At the lectern is a twerp of a grad student — the prototypical A student — insecure, overbearing, full of himself and contempt for his students.
They aren’t ‘A’ students. | RedState
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It appears as though your dictation droid is a 'malfunctioning little twerp', as it has left a typo on your most recent post.
This Is Tense
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To re-write the adage: all taffies may not be twerps but all twerps are Taffies. any offense is purely intentional, and please refer all writs to Anne Robinson c/o BBC London.
Great Welsh Political Anecdotes: No 94
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+ "De Moralitate, naturâ et effectibus actuum supernaturalium".etc. (Antwerp, 1623; Lyons, 1623; Paris, 1624.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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Colours for painting, not only those used by artists, such as ultramarine, [3] carmine, [4] and lake; [5] Antwerp blue, [6] chrome yellow, [7] and Indian ink; [8] but also the coarser colours used by the common house-painter are more or less adulterated.
A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employ
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The native language of Antwerp is Dutch, but most people also speak French, German and English.
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I felt a little sorry for him but all the twerp had to do was return a call.
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Antwerp art The exhibition "Anselm Kiefer" will display a selection of works by the German abstract painter and sculptor from the 1980s to the present.
What's on Around Europe
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Am I a cold-hearted fiend or are they just truly irritating little twerps?
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A twerp would spit in his lunch or touch his food because he has a germ phobia.
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At the same time he informed me that his Government intended to transfer the basis of the British commissariat from the French coast to Antwerp as soon as all German ships were swept off the North
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915
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When a £3m deal was struck, the buyer turned out to be an undercover police officer and gang members were arrested in a sting operation at Antwerp airport.
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She finished third in the world cross-country championships in Antwerp.
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The natural response to that public admission of arrogance, violence and stupidity is to counter it with: ‘If we have to legislate to stop immature twerps like you then we will.’
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This year sees the most important exhibitions on Rubens since the commemoration in 1977 of the quatercentenary of his birth, at Antwerp, Genoa and Lille.
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The old-style rugby shirts are produced now only as fashion items, and are worn exclusively by those very public-schoolboy twerps for whom the game of rugby no longer has any use.
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Orange himself, as burgrave of Antwerp, at the request of the duchess visited the town and with the aid of Brederode and Meghem succeeded in effecting a compromise between the Catholic and Protestant parties.
History of Holland
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A group of scientists have been growing diamonds, not to try to pawn off in Antwerp or anything, but rather to coat electrodes, and ultimately ...
Scientists Grow Diamonds To Clean Sewage Water
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Are there any cross-Channel ferries out of here tonight for Antwerp?
CORMORANT
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These twerps were all nobodies last week and will be again by the end of the year.
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As we would learn, religious Jews on bikes are a common sight in Antwerp, particularly around the train station, in the diamond district.
Tablet Magazine
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His boldness and clarity infuriates opponents - academe is crowded with critics who have made twerps of themselves taking him on.
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The Allies needed to control the West and East Scheldt - areas of sea to the north-west of Antwerp.
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The Belgian army retreated to the town of Antwerp, leaving Brussels an open city.
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He meanwhile devoted himself to preserving peace in Antwerp, of which city he was burgrave.
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Born in Antwerp and trained as a marine artist, he excelled in portraying the busy life of ports.
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Some 5,000 Kurds from across Europe have staged a demonstration in Brussels calling on the authorities to put an end to police abuse against representatives of the Kurdish diaspora in Belgium, local media has reported. carried out large-scale raids in Kurdish-inhabited districts in the capital, Brussels, as well as in the cities of Antwerp, Charleroi, Namur, and Verviers.
RIA Novosti
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Helping me in my mission is the convenience of central Antwerp.
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Cease and desist with your delusional self-worth and self-view within every one of your insipid little posts, twerp ….
Think Progress » Did Palin write the answers to Tea Party Convention questions on her hand?
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The port of Antwerp, a power-house of international trade, served for a time as Tyndale's safest refuge—but it was also the place where he met his downfall.
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There are about 464.000 inhabitants in Antwerp. this city has several nicknames like sinjoren that's from the Spanish word senor but it's also called the cookie city because of it's famous coffeecookies.
Purpleocity.net
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FRANKFURT — General Motors Co. 's Adam Opel GmbH division on Monday confirmed that its Belgian plant in Antwerp will be closed at the end of the year as part of its comprehensive turnaround plan after no suitable buyer was found.
GM's Opel to Close Belgian Plant
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A group of scientists have been growing diamonds, not to try to pawn off in Antwerp or anything, but rather to coat electrodes, and ultimately use them to clean up sewage.
Scientists Grow Diamonds To Clean Sewage Water
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In 1443 he was a singer at the church of Notre Dame in Antwerp, and by 1446 was a member of the chapel of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon, centred on the Burgundian town of Moulins near Dijon.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Great entertainers are treated shabbily, while callow, shallow twerps land their own series after half a dozen gigs.
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Opera, ed. DUPIN, V (Antwerp, 1706); HELLOT, Nobles et vilains, le miracle de Basqueviue, d'apres les poesies inedites de Jean Petit
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Twenty-four of the Antwerp forts were still holding out today in face of a continuous bombardment.
Times, Sunday Times
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My closest call was in Antwerp while four of us were exploring the metro system.
The Sun
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Without warning or presage the still evening air was smitten and made softly musical by the pealing of a distant chime, calling vespers to its brothers in Antwerp's hundred belfries; and one by one, far and near, the responses broke out, until it seemed as if the world must be vibrant with silver and brazen melody; until at the last the great bells in the
The Black Bag
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The other websites mentions additionally “that Ashley and Xavier will host an introduction to the Twilight Night in Antwerp and will appear on the red carpet.”
Twilight Lexicon » The Twilight Cast Abroad Rundown
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A bitter, rabid weasel of a man who thought that possessing the title of archbishop somehow made him immune to the laws of God and men, and a twerpy, unscrupulous banker who had more ambition than sense.
The Poet Prince
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River Demer by a successful sortie from Antwerp, murders of civilians were taking place in the villages which the Belgian Army then recaptured from the Germans.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
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German planners knew that Antwerp must be taken to safeguard the right rear of their armies swinging down into France, and initially allocated five reserve corps to the task.
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Helping me in my mission is the convenience of central Antwerp.
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Young fellas, who at the age of 12 were big bullies in the yard, were weedy twerps by age 16.
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It's just a shame he's inherited such a bunch of jobsworth twerps underneath him.
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Then the little twerp went and switched from a side pose to a full-frontal/arms-extended look, exposing her wispy alfalfa-sprout armpit hair to view.
A Day in the Life of a Supermodel Armpit Makeup Artist
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Half of me said that I shouldn't be afraid of these little twerps.
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Thus he claimed possession and sovereignty to the city and country of Maestricht, and the free navigation of the Scheldt; the latter of which claims was made in order to re-elevate Antwerp to her ancient commercial importance.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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A Gorcum friend extricated him; and, disguised as a carpenter armed with a footrule, he set forth on his travels to Antwerp.
A Wanderer in Holland
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MILAN (AP) U.S. rider Christian Vande Velde was slated to undergo surgery on his injured shoulder in Antwerp on Tuesday after crashing in the Giro d'Italia.
Vande Velde to undergo surgery after Giro crash
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Antwerp also secured the dominance of London - the nearest estuarial port - over the other English ports, which became known by the end of the century simply as the outports.
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But these twerps are just obscene, and they have no idea how tiresome it appears, and how boringly ordinary they all look.
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Antwerpers are so convinced that their city is best that other Belgians think them chauvinists.
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I ate my breakfast quickly, said goodbye to the twerps and headed outside where my two best friends, Summer and Bryan, were waiting for me in Bryan's car.
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There's an hourly bus from the airport to central Antwerp; £5.50, one-way.
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He became a haberdasher and Merchant Adventurer, growing rich on the cloth export trade to Antwerp.
