How To Use Twig In A Sentence

They used dry twigs to start the fire.
On a tree that is virtually bare, one can often see a solitary leaf still fluttering on a top twig. Times, Sunday Times
The typical Ruby-crowned Kinglet nest is deep and is suspended from two hanging twigs.
We're sitting in the middle of a gay pub, and - typically for a bunch of straight guys, I muse - they haven't twigged at all.
My son caught it by knocking it off the car with a twig, then coaxing it on to a piece of card, and then putting it in a jam jar.

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A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree.
He heard the sharp crack of a twig.
Magpies are also building their domed nests of long twigs in the trees, but have been finding it hard in the strong winds. Times, Sunday Times
The twigs and pebbles and little heaps of dirt were apparently his attempt to recreate the house in miniature. SACRAMENT
At Ingolstadt, the branchlike ribs are disjunctively representational, carved with protruding nubs or twigs signaling their botanical nature.
Long green catkins are appearing on the yellow twigs, with small green leaves on either side. Times, Sunday Times
They burrow into the rock and support shafts with branches and twigs. Times, Sunday Times
The bouquet contains naranja roses, tiger lilies, carnations, alstromeria, solidago, berries and a selection of greenery and twigs.
Rovers very nearly got themselves back into the game within seconds, when Finn ran on to Gary Twigg's flick-on to head towards goal, but Ryzhikov made a fine reaction save to keep his effort out from point-blank range. Shamrock Rovers 0-3 Rubin Kazan | Europa League Group A match report
He followed this by sitting down and making a besom - a brush made from birch twigs.
Subcylindrical forms such as Stachyodes and Amphipora have been called dendroid or twiglike, and aluacerids have been called subcylindrical, cylindrical, or columnar.
Has it taken until now for these hard-nosed businessmen to finally twig they have been sold one pup after another? The Sun
Magpies are also building their domed nests of long twigs in the trees, but have been finding it hard in the strong winds. Times, Sunday Times
She couldn't identify the tall tree but sunlit filtering down through the spiderwork of twigs and branches was wonderful. Time Scout
The first hazel catkins are beginning to turn yellow and swing loose on the twigs. Times, Sunday Times
The chimpanzee scratches away the thin covering and inserts the twig. Cultural Anthropology
Cold-pressing the fruit peel yields bigarade, the essential oil of the bitter orange; distilling the twigs gives you petitgrain; and the orange blossoms provide you with neroli. Orange Blossoms
Dressed in a simple loincloth, first the men shower with cold water, then clean their teeth with a small twig from the neem tree.
Robyn blinked back unexpected tears and leant forward to place a log carefully on to the mound of hot red twigs.
I tried to get the money off him later, told him she'd changed her mind, but unfortunately he twigged and---" I laughed. GO!
Some pairs breed very early and will soon be making a flimsy nest of twigs in the branches. Times, Sunday Times
Her crooked fingers drag across the skin stiff as twigs.
Hertwig considered that the following bones were originally formed by coalescence of teeth -- parasphenoid, vomer, palatine, pterygoid, the tooth-bearing part of the pre-maxillary, the maxillary, the dentary and certain bones of the hyo-mandibular skeleton of Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
The same people also seem to see it as an attack on twiglet, which it isnt either, at no point is any personally opinion passed on the merits of ‘The Saga’. Only TWILIGHT fans will REMEMBER ME says John! | Obsessed With Film
When I saw it, around age 13ish, it wasn't long after I'd finally twigged that my parents had raised me as a boy for no reason other than their own misogyny. "I pledge to you all that you wish, the moon and the stars."
Don't buy a tree that is losing green needles, or has dry, brittle twigs or a sour, musty smell.
—In autumn, with a great creaking and a snapping of twigs, they break away from trunks grown thick with bark and phloem, which become husks with jagged tips, or later often topple from sheer grief. 2009 June
For Christmas or New Year's, fortunes in the form of coins, cornel cherry twigs, or slips of paper are inserted in banitsa or bread.
Stems, twigs and driftwood embedded in the sand and mud were used to carbon-date the core sections.
Another is a close-up of a mud-encrusted hand reaching back toward a worker at the top of a precarious twig ladder.
We collected dry twigs to start the fire.
The larval insects insert their proboscides into the bark of young shoots of certain lac-bearing trees, varieties of Ficus, draw out the sap for nutriment, and at once exude a resinous secretion which entirely covers their bodies and the twigs, often to the thickness of one-half inch. Handwork in Wood
Stagnant water can be prevented from developing by stopping water collecting in places such as gutters and flat roofs by removing debris such as leaves and twigs.
The _baxa_ was a coarse sandal made of twigs, used by philosophers and comic actors; the _calcæus_ was a shoe that covered the foot, though the toes were often exposed; and the _cothurnus_, a laced boot worn by horsemen, hunters, men of authority, and tragic actors, and it left the toes likewise exposed. The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
Go on, get busy with those twigs and branches. Times, Sunday Times
In flower-beds, stake tall perennials such as delphiniums and hollyhocks by using canes for individual flower stems or by pushing twiggy prunings from shrubs and trees into or around the clump.
The Twiggs hired a private investigator to find their real daughter.
Tasted without food, it's what I can only describe as twiggy - it's as if they have crushed the vines along with the grapes. Archive 2006-08-01
The shark will be back and if you can't pay, he'll break your creativity, morale, and good-mannered nature as virtue twigs.
Samaria and its king will float away like a twig on the surface of the waters.
Then Al Trautwig, commentating on the Tour de France, said "The greatest dishonor is to literally have the maillot jaune ripped from your body, which is what happened to Michael Rasmussen yesterday. When good kids show bad judgment
Twigs and leaves flew to either side as they went deeper into the woods.
I almost blush when I think of myself as describing the eight several facets on two slender processes of the palate bone, or the seven little twigs that branch off from the minute tympanic nerve, and I wonder whether my excellent colleague feels in the same way when he pictures himself as giving the constitution of neurin, which as he and I know very well is that of the hydrate of trimethyle-oxethyle-ammonium, or the formula for the production of alloxan, which, though none but the Professors and older students can be expected to remember it, is C10 H4 N4 O6+ 2HO, NO5 = C8 H4 N2 Medical Essays, 1842-1882
At present the fruit is ripening on the twigs, and looks like small brown cherries. Times, Sunday Times
Birch twigs are thin and flexible, and have small buds. Times, Sunday Times
The scrawny, stumpy plants - in winter a mass of black aimless twigs with a few odd drops of white fiber still clinging to them - is hardly pure or virgin.
'As I sat before the fire on my fir-twig seat, without walls above or around me, I remembered how far on every hand that wilderness stretched, before you came to cleared or cultivated fields, and wondered if any bear or moose was watching the light of my fire; for nature looked sternly upon me on account of the _murder of the moose_. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
She rolled her eyes and sat up, shaking the dirt and twigs from her soft fur.
Best to bend while ’tis a twig.
The wind grew fiercer, sending leaves and twigs whirling around in the air.
Page 423 fumes or exhalations, from this bed of clay, may have a vivific nutritive quality, and be received by the fibres of the roots, or being condensed in the atmosphere by nocturnal chills, fall with dews upon the leaves and twigs of these plants, and there absorbed, become nutritive or exhilerating to them. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
On the left side, a sinuous twig curves from the stem base around the back of the bowl.
I soon saw it flitting about in the twigs. Times, Sunday Times
Buyers don't like more than half a per cent. of rubbish; I mean stones, dried twig-like pieces of pulp, dust, etc., left in the cacao, neither do they like to see "cobs," that is, two or more beans stuck together, nor ----. Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer
It was buried beneath a layer of dead leaves and twigs.
She was aware of every small noise around her, from the smallest twig snapping underfoot to the cries of foreign birds.
And yet the name linden was writ large on those trees, -- on the beautiful gray bark, the alternate method of twig arrangement, the fat red winter buds, which shone in the sunshine like rubies, and especially on the little cymes of pendulous, pea-like fruit, each cyme attached to its membranaceous bract or wing. Some Winter Days in Iowa
They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood. The King's Best Highway
Lateral or terminal on shoots of the preceding season; sterile flowers oblong-cylindrical, 1/4 inch in length; anthers yellow, red-tinged: fertile flowers on the upper side of the twig, erect, cylindrical; cover-scales broad, much larger than the purple ovuliferous scales, terminating in a long, recurved tip. Handbook of the Trees of New England
Hartwig ran through the names in the notebook that corresponded with the numbers on the spines of the video cassettes.
The lattice, with its entwined flowering twig pattern, was finished in pink, bronze, and green by brushing on copper-based colorants.
Mac snapped a small twig from a tree branch and began slowly wandering around the clearing, twisting the stick in his fingers.
He reached under him and cleared away a few large clumps of dirt, leaves, and twigs, and stones, which appeared ordinary but served as a good hiding place for the tunnel entrance.
Familiar light flickered across the rising pillars and half pillars of rock, the hanging forest of stony branches and twigs. A Plague of Angels
For a few seconds the squirrel was behind a few pine twigs that were blocking its view towards me.
Jeff showed the twins how to weave the twig wattle fence that borders the deck.
Firstly, thanks to her advice I've twigged how to post images via an ftp program and secondly, due to my lack of knowledge, I no longer need a haircut as I've torn most of my hair out during the day.
Their female flowers sit on the twigs like small pink roses. Times, Sunday Times
Following paths of moss, twigs, dirt and boardwalks, the trails lead you to works made by Canadian and South American artists.
Donald, a Macgregor's bowerbird, lives in the dark woods of the Adelbert Range of Papua New Guinea. Here, atop a mossy platform and around a young sapling, he has woven his spire of sticks and twigs.
They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood. The King's Best Highway
The spa offers a traditional Russian banya experience, involving a ritual of hot saunas, cold baths and an invigorating banya besom treatment—a stimulating massage using birch or oak twigs. Latvia's Burgeoning Spa Scene
They can be seen vigorously tearing twigs from the trees. Times, Sunday Times
It's devoted largely to author Twight's theory and practice of alpinism - his drastic gear weight reduction methods go far beyond simple ultralight camping.
Grass cuttings, leaves, twigs, prunings, hedge clippings, flowers and plants, uncooked fruit and uncooked vegetables can all be put in the green bin.
Branches and twigs were also used by the monkeys to probe tree holes and rock crevices for insects, honey, or water.
But to maintain that effect prune them now, thinning them hard and taking off most of the fine, twiggier stuff. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps in a shallow grave of leaves and twigs.
Come morning, the mist condenses into drops on the edges of twig and leaf, which tinkle to the earth.
The chalkiness of the boys 'spindly arms against their loose tank tops, twiggy wrists in massive gloves, and little faces in big headgear don't do much to break that stereotype. Joshua David Stein: Blue Blood: Thinking Outside the Box
He grabbed a twig from the kindling stacked near his pallet and moved to kneel in the doorway.
Its fragile flowers are opening in parks and gardens like pale pink snowflakes that have got caught in the twigs. Times, Sunday Times
Painting skin, stones, or twigs with clay or red ochre.
Individually we are weak, like a single twig but as a bundle we form a mighty faggot.
He is not a land artist, he flattens no grass and makes no patterns with twigs or boulders.
Although Danielle tries not to play favorites, Twig definitely is her first choice for a nice early morning trot or a late summer's evening ride.
With efficient rasplike grinders, they consumed a winter diet of coarse dry grass, plus twigs and bark of birches, willows, and larches with as much ease as they did their summer diet of green grasses, sedges, and herbs. The Mammoth Hunters
They discovered an echo, and began to call to it; sang songs, hallooed, wrestled, broke up dry twigs, decked their hats with fern, and even danced. The Torrents of Spring
These included such hardy species as red chokeberry, buttonbush, spicebush and red twig dogwood.
It might have begun earlier, in the time Seyavi of the campoodie tells of, when antelope ran on the mesa like sheep for numbers, but scarcely any foot-high herb rears itself except from the midst of some stout twigged shrub; larkspur in the coleogyne, and for every spinosa the purpling coils of phacelia. The Land of Little Rain
By the time Ryan had reached it, Melanie was still struggling to get the low twigs of the beeches to let go of her hair.
Leafless by early November, the pencil-thin twigs are a uniform fiery red, rising as high as seven feet.
To process a netful of bugs and materials (leaves, twigs, gravel, etc.), invert the materials from the net into a bucket or similar container of water.
In addition to twigs, the crows manufacture tools from long and barbed leaves of the pandanus tree.
He is just now twigging to the reality that the Bush family name will be cindered for all time by the time this game plays out. Think Progress » Following a speech in Abu Dhabi,
There be two of these things; and one is an image of a tall woman of middle-age, red-haired, white - skinned, and meagre, and whiles she has a twiggen rod in her hand, and whiles a naked short sword, and whiles nought at all. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
On the left side of this specimen, this twig arose as a branch of the vertebral artery, the inferior thyroid artery being absent.
Are all the twiggier bits at the top? Times, Sunday Times
As always, the rule is to twig where the natives are munching, stalk the local well-fed and you'll never go far wrong.
‘She finds things to play with, little twigs and stuff, and she bats them around,’ says Larson.
Leaves, flowers, roots, fruits, twigs, and insect galls can also be employed as medicine.
The first hazel catkins are beginning to turn yellow and swing loose on the twigs. Times, Sunday Times
I even admit to thinking that some fish are just playing after on many different occasions watching Atlantic silversides Menidia menidia jumping over floating twigs over and over again. Archive 2008-09-01
In flower-beds, stake tall perennials such as delphiniums and hollyhocks by using canes for individual flower stems or by pushing twiggy prunings from shrubs and trees into or around the clump.
It is a place like the court; but instead of pales there are hurdles, which are made of sticks that will bend, such as osier twigs; and they are twisted and made very fast, so that nothing can creep in, and nothing can get out. Harry's Ladder to Learning
And in her practical way she scraped together a small square of dust, and with a twig from a pigeons nest began drawing a map on the floor. Nineteen Eighty-Four
At first, layer grass clippings with a dash of leaves and twigs to create a concoction that turns into humus, the best plant food.
I strained the cream and milk mixture to get rid of the twigs - but reincorporated some of the zest and thyme leaves - and beat it into the eggs and sugar.
There is no need to thin out all the twiggier growth, since this too will provide some smaller flowers. Times, Sunday Times
She pushed them away with the twiggy end of the rowan branch and pulled herself along faster. Crimson Wind
The young twigs are glabrate, or only sparingly pubescent.
Dispersal of bagworms depends on the hatchlings getting out on a twig and letting out a long strand of silk.
She broke a twig from a nearby tree and began poking it into the soft ground in a desperate effort to busy herself.
Thousands of renters - twigging that some real bargains are beginning to appear in estate agents' windows - are rushing to comply. Times, Sunday Times
We were told at the time, as a reason for this prohibition, that it was poisonous; but we discovered afterwards that there was another reason, viz., that it was unlucky to break off even a small twig from a bourtree bush. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century
This is before he twigs that his German friend is gay.
When describing my shape, the word twig comes to mind. Love Undercover
The mahout carried an invaluable knife-weapon, called a parang, broadest and heaviest at the point, and as we passed through the jungle he slashed to right and left to clear the track, and quite thick twigs fell with hardly an effort on his part. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
If you have shrubs grown for their colored twigs, you will want to selectively prune these, too.
Alternatively, prune to 1.5-2m and leave twiggier growth. Times, Sunday Times
First he gathered a few small twigs and made a _very small_ fire. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
There, sheltering in huts of twigs and leaves covered by plastic sheeting, 90,000 people are crammed into the camp.
Some sit on thin pedestals or dangle from the tips of twigs; others perch directly on branches, lined up like kernels on a corncob.
They used dry twigs to start the fire.
With shaking hands you gather twigs and sticks from the firewood basket and coax the last embers of the fire to wake up too.
We used some dry grass and dead twigs as tinder to light the camp fire.
Every spring the moorhens build themselves a nest on a raft of twigs or on the bank at the waterline, for a clutch of speckled brown eggs to bring off a hatch of four or five tiny brown-black chicks.
Use twigs, cut ivy, holly and a branch of blue spruce for more of that wonderful festive vibe. Times, Sunday Times
It is built of moss, pine needles, leaves, twigs, bark, and other plant material, and lined with hair.
A lot of time, they're chewing khat, which is this amphetamine-like twig that sort of makes them all tweaked out by the end of the day. CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2009
It was only in the car on the way home that I twigged that of course the prices will be going up at the beginning of January so it would not be cheaper at all.
‘Have you noticed how the thousands of dry twigs between the trunks make a brown mist, a brume?’ The Trespasser
They normally flit quickly from twig to twig, only taking the most obvious insects and insect eggs. Times, Sunday Times
The small tree bears its fruits indiscriminately on twigs, branches, or trunk.
“_Mothen_ parchments” is in Fulke; “_twiggen_ bottle” in English Past and Present
So I gradually amassed armfuls of small twigs, which I carried back to my cave.
Like beavers, muskrats build lodges out of sticks, twigs, cattails and bulrushes, reinforcing them with mud.
When fully grown, the bagworm fastens its covering to a twig and pupates within it.
Birds build their nests out of twigs.
Some are ragged drifters, but most disturbing is the sight of entire families - a haggard and exhausted father and mother, accompanied by a bevy of grimy children - sprawled around a campfire of twigs.
When they return home, they nest in pine and spruce forests, making a cup of twigs and reindeer moss. Times, Sunday Times
A nest that was placed in the fork of a bough was composed entirely of slender twigs, the petioles of some pennated-leaved tree, bound together all round the outside with abundance of cobwebs, so that notwithstanding the incoherent nature of the materials the nest was extremely firm. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
He struggled under the weight of the heavy tomes, his twiggy arms flailing pitifully.
These included such hardy species as red chokeberry, buttonbush, spicebush and red twig dogwood.
If they bring thee back safe, they may chance to sing to the twiggen fiddle-bow, that they may be warned from such folly; but if they come back without thee, by All-hallows the wind of wrath shall sweep their heads off them! The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Go on, get busy with those twigs and branches. Times, Sunday Times
The sharp sound of a twig snapping scared the badger away.
What they still have on their twigs is numerous small, dark cones. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, the thoroughly detestable Jordan - who's as warm as a Siberian winter and as human as the Megatron - has remained a lifelong twiglet with apparently effortless ease. Archive 2009-06-01
Forgive me, for when I left the city and moved upstate and never called the sorority girl who seduced me, and didn't call the girl I had a one night stand with because I was creeped out by her long, twiggy fingers. Forgive me, father
In making their nests, the birds cement a scaffolding of tiny twigs together with a sticky substance which has been variously identified as coming from regurgitated seaweed, such as agar-agar, or as being simply the birds' own saliva.
The silence of the forest was made evident by the occasional snap of a twig.
When they return home, they nest in pine and spruce forests, making a cup of twigs and reindeer moss. Times, Sunday Times
The bag is firmly attached by a sturdy silk band which the bagworms usually wrap around a twig.
The journey on the komatik was a great treat for both Mrs. Twig and Violet, and this visit supplied food for pleasant conversation during the remainder of the winter. Left on the Labrador A Tale of Adventure Down North
A beaver's diet is strictly vegetarian; they feed throughout the year on bark, twigs, tree buds, grass, berries, lily roots, and other aquatic plants.
He broke off a twig from a willow tree and used it to shoo the flies away.
He followed this by sitting down and making a besom - a brush made from birch twigs.
The hazel twigs are still bare, but by the end of next month these small trees will be covered in large green leaves. Times, Sunday Times
This term continues in English as "fascine", a bundle of twigs used in WW1 to cross trenches. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The nest is either a simple scrape lined with a few twigs and feathers or a large stick nest in a tree.
Then came a small snap, sounding like someone stepped on a twig.
In flower-beds, stake tall perennials such as delphiniums and hollyhocks by using canes for individual flower stems or by pushing twiggy prunings from shrubs and trees into or around the clump.
What if the tree twigs turned into fingers? Times, Sunday Times
It is distinguished by its phenology, whitish twigs and paired thorns. blue green bipinnate leaves lacking a petiolar gland, but with glands between nearly all its 2-12 pinnate pairs. Chapter 33
They simply spin a silken sling to attach themselves to a twig.
The ten thousand trees beneath, and their ten million branches and twigs all completely clothed in crystal -- while not the slightest breeze was stirring -- presented a view of fairyland, such as flits across the vision in dreams, that the memory fain would cling to, but which is lost in the real and conflicting transactions of returning day. Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described
And yet the name linden was writ large on those trees, -- on the beautiful gray bark, the alternate method of twig arrangement, the fat red winter buds, which shone in the sunshine like rubies, and especially on the little cymes of pendulous, pea-like fruit, each cyme attached to its membranaceous bract or wing. Some Winter Days in Iowa
Nests are made of grass, twigs, leaves, moss and roots, and are lined with green leaves, small roots and grassy fibers.
His back was covered with a piece of raw hide, over which were several mats, and on either side of the ridgy backbone a shallow basket, filled with fresh leaves and twigs, and held in place by ropes of rattan. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
Approaching the bird, anger turned to curiosity at seeming small green leaves sprouting from a slender twig.
If you can find a gnarled peasant woman making shabby artefacts from twigs, point your readers in her direction.
When they return home, they nest in pine and spruce forests, making a cup of twigs and reindeer moss. Times, Sunday Times
Use twigs, cut ivy, holly and a branch of blue spruce for more of that wonderful festive vibe. Times, Sunday Times
Or maybe the twenty-year-old twigs dragged back from the all-night raves seemed less edgy and bedazzling over coffee? My Husband Came Back, Now What?
Sometimes the wasp may even insert a small twig into the soil and jiggle it about to help settle the material.
I ran towards a tree and grabbed some twigs and a branch.
Kim was given the secret task of artfully slipping the tongue-twisting word 'discombobulate' into conversations with each of the camp mates without any of them twigging there was anything awry. Undefined
A long corridor, with salix twigs, orchids and asparagus ferns covering the walls, had been scattered with 5,000 rose heads. Times, Sunday Times
Evading the first blow, Trachoma struck out, barehanded, seizing his adversary's wrist and snapping it like a dry twig.
Its fragile flowers are opening in parks and gardens like pale pink snowflakes that have got caught in the twigs. Times, Sunday Times
The sound of twigs snapping violently and a stumble preluded Rafel's voice.
There be two of these things; and one is an image of a tall woman of middle-age, red-haired, white-skinned, and meagre, and whiles she has a twiggen rod in her hand, and whiles a naked short sword, and whiles nought at all. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Those trees matured around the 1970s, leading to another timbering boom that created plentiful deer habitat and "browse" - twigs and shoots on which they feed. Undefined
‘We'll draw straws,’ Nick said, reaching forward and pulling an unburned twig from the fire.
The nests of this species that I have seen have been very slight flimsy structures, nearly hemispherical cups, composed of fine twigs and the leaf-stalks of pennated leaves a little bound together with cobwebs and thinly lined with fine hair-like grass. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
It is distinguished by its phonology, whitish twigs and paired thorns, blue green bipinnate leaves lacking a petiolar gland, but with glands between nearly all its 2-12 pinnate pairs. Chapter 10
Page view page image: acerose reather more than half a line in width and very unequal in length, the greatest length being little more than half an inch, while others intermixed on every part of the bough are not more than a 1/4 in length. flat with a small longitudinal channel in the upper disk which is of a deep green and glossey, while the u [n] der disk is of a whiteish green only; two ranked, obtusely pointed, soft and flexable. this tree affords but little rosin. the cone is remarkably small not larger than the end of a man's thumb soft, flexable and of an ovate form, produced at the ends of the small twigs. Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
The pieces of meat are spitted on green twigs, which are stuck into the ground in front of a blazing log.
Who most smartly twigged the resonance of the party invitation was probably the square-shouldered flat‑nosed puncher Quarry, a competent but inconsistent operator, and one who could usually be relied upon to succumb when it mattered most. The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed
Before his cover was blown, Baron Cohen managed to interview a staggering array of public figures without them twigging he was play acting.
She sent us to chop willow twigs for planting, just after adas of her arrival.
the sharp crack of a twig
Next to the gayal is the _Gam_ -- also a forest-dwelling ox, of large size; and, like the other, browsing upon the leaves and twigs of trees. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
As the leaves fall off the trees, leaving twiggy skeletons to draw broken brush strokes on the sky, I add further layers to my outdoor clothing.

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