How To Use Twin In A Sentence

In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
An empty plastic 2 litre bottle is tied to a rock, or bag of stones with strong twine or string.
So I cringe when a local newsperson shoves a microphone in the face of some young 95-pound twink (Straight Translation: a twink is a skinny homosexual with a lot of moxie). Max Mutchnick: Where Is My Martin Luther Queen?
The Chorus mentions that Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus are very similar to each other, ‘twin throned, twin sceptered, in twofold power.’
He said the unsayable and the unthinkable but with a twinkle. Times, Sunday Times

The excess amniotic fluid was then removed from the recipient twin sac, and antibiotics were placed into the uterine cavity to decrease the risk of infection. Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)
This time he also plays his own twin brother. The Sun
The parallel twin engine that powers them has a vibey past. The Sun
There are three large and fully furnished bedrooms - a twin, a double and a single room, so there is lots of space for a family in Ireland on holiday.
From where she was sitting she could not see the twins watching the game from the other side behind the goal.
Those brought up in the punk rock era will have a twinge of nostalgia for the days when it was a badge of honour to be gobbed on by your idols.
The look should be tough, not twinkly, so apply dark colours in a slapdash way. Times, Sunday Times
She wears a thick flowery hairband, several clashing necklaces and a quite revolting hairy purple cardigan with batwing sleeves.
Gob Woodhull, an imaginary son of the real 19th-century feminist, spiritualist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull, loses his twin brother in the Civil War and builds a vast and elaborate machine whose purpose is to "grieve" so efficiently that it will bring all of history's dead back to life. Time Tripping
The twin problems of ecological and individualist fallacies occur when inferences are drawn about one level of analysis using evidence from another.
And the ultimate separation, the ultimate twinning, is the separation between the lawyer and the self — the creation of a professional role that is not you, but comes to have a life of its own, that comes to be as important as the authentic self. Is That Legal?: Books Archives
A recent television program on Siamese twins demonstrated how a pair of joined, genetically identical humans had different preferences and quite distinct wills and spirits.
There are no such things as vampires, or werewolves, or evil identical twins.
Or he would lecture her on the bad manners and delinquent habits of the twins, as displayed on their infrequent visits to him. Times, Sunday Times
The batwing sleeves and column shape flattered, but her messy hair and heavy make-up could have been more refined. The Sun
Man with just a passing twinge of shame.
Steven glanced at me, his eyes once again twinkling.
He had a gentle, kindly manner, twinkling eyes and quick smile, a keen sense of humour and a penetrating wit.
It's a bizarre concept that intertwines issues of patriotism and sporting chauvinism.
Ride and refinement: the twin pillars that must support any car's claim to be the best luxury vehicle in the world. Times, Sunday Times
Lawyers acting for the victims - including the parents of twins who suffered kidney failure - are claiming damages for injury and consequential loss. The Sun
It features a twin-spar aluminium frame and a tubular swingarm made out of steel and aluminium.
Instead of being given a single engined aircraft as was usual, we were allowed to use one of the latest and fastest new twin-engined bombers!
The good news for hot hatch lovers is there is a smouldering two-litre twin turbo VXR waiting in the wings that hits showrooms in spring. The Sun
Studies of family, twin and Foster child reveal that genetic factors play an important role in the etiological complex of mental retardation.
Our attic suite was half the size of our Dublin terrace house, with a huge main bedroom and a comfortable twin room for the boys.
Enveloped in that smell, I would play grown up and sit in the office sometimes, studiously recording the numbers of the vehicles that came in for work on the twin ramps over the six-foot-deep pit where the mufflers were installed.
The laser's optical system would have to overcome the distorting effect of atmospheric turbulence, the variations in pressure and temperature that refract starlight to create the "twinkling" effect in the night sky. Pentagon Loses War to Zap Airborne Laser From Budget
Each person's genetic code is unique except in the case of identical twins.
Their journeys intertwine and overlap, and during sequences in which they go their separate but parallel ways, director Gustad employs jarring cross-cutting to remind us of their journeys' thematic parallelisms.
(That last fact doesn't have anything to do with the Lost Pines, but it's the kind of kitschy "giant ball of twine" thing I adore, so I've included it anyway.) Joy Preble: Not Lost at All: Texas Pines, Debut Authors, and the World's Largest Gingerbread Man
Here is my compile command "cc - Wall - lncurses - o twinkle twinkle. c" I am using fedora 12. 'env' shows that TERM = linux. LinuxQuestions.org
Obama is too intwined with Wright regardless of his denouncing of Wright's hateful rhetoric. Jeremiah Wright Steps Down From Obama Campaign
Luck links two sets of twins. The Sun
Finally, it's come to my attention that the up-and-coming Canadian boy band B4-4 is fronted by the twin sons of the cantor of my family synagogue.
In no other situation is the contemplation of living and dying so intertwined with love and sex.
With white lights twinkling around the street-facing windows, a single red rose on our table and the candle lamp glowing between us, our fondue dinner felt almost romantic.
And I know two twin mommies still nursing (at 1 year and 2 1/2), so more of your tribe to connect with. My tribe may only exist on the internet. « A Bird’s Nest
She costarred with her twin sister in a new film.
When you hear the term hacking, or hackathon, the first image that probably comes to mind is a handful of programmers staying up all night long, fueled by Mountain Dew and Twinkies, hacking away on laptops at arcane code. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The two lines run through the composition, sometimes parallel, sometimes intertwining, with the second one eventually taking over and ultimately finding its closure in a lush, animalic, fantastically sexy, nocturnal base of amber, musk, civet, patchouli and castoreum. Forgotten Chypres: 7e Sense by Sonya Rykiel and Gianni Versace
Witty and warm with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. The Sun
Lessons of IVF babies mix-up ‘will be learned’ Report pinpoints series of failures at Yorkshire fertility clinic where white couple had mixed-race twins in error
I take in the dock-green porch swing , the birch-leg table , the twin BED where my sister sleeps , the smoky glass of the kerosene lantern.
Silently, too, they walked under the IC, past the entwined hearts, the graphic drawings, the amazing suggestions. FAMILY PICTURES
Two twin marble staircases curved upwards, leading to the second floor.
I entwined my fingers with hers, experiencing relief and dissolved anxiety as I felt her squeeze back.
They were twins who had just transferred from a private academy.
She caught students red-handed with their parts entwined frequently, and the rest of the student body talked about sex as if it was just as normal as attending a baseball game or playing video games. Daniel P. Malito: The Scarlet e-Letter
It's in all its glory and ready to go back indoors for the tinsel and twinkling lights. The Sun
She rubbed my arm comfortingly with a small twinkle of mischief that I had seen somewhere else.
Harry potter is going to die as well as one of the weasly twins. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Who Will Die in the Next Harry Potter Book
Their faces light up and eyes twinkle as if there's a current of electricity swirling inside them.
There had been a gentleness in Lonnie that was lacking in his twin brother. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
Haddock, the explosive, semi-sozzled scion of Marlinspike Hall; Cuthbert Calculus, the nearly deaf genius inventor; Thompson and Thomson, the bumbling identical-twin detectives; and opera diva Bianca Castafiore, aka the Milanese Nightingale, who is the sole female character to recur in Hergé's Tintin stories. Tintin & Co.
The vessel's net entangled and fouled the 52-foot motor lifeboat's twin 36-inch brass propellers.
Shorthand and typewriting have been described as the twin arts.
Pence worked as a rightwing radio host before entering Congress. The Sun
Born one minute apart, we were a rambunctious twosome, enthralled with our twinship. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More
The vine twines round/up the pole.
The issues of validity and reliability are the twin pillars that prove research to be only mediocre or outstanding.
There have been some recent studies using twins which show that there's a higher rate in the concordant, identical twins than in the discordant twins.
Suffice it to say that if I feel any kind of twinge, I wait awhile to see if it's worth the time investment to go. Stupid question.
We told them to get out.Three deny they left twins to die in barn fire.
The prenatal environment also has a major influence on differences between identical twins.
The problems of crime and unemployment are closely intertwined.
Twinkling flashbulbs lit up Centre Court like fireworks in the night when Sampras kissed the trophy once again, his eyes glistening from the tears he had shed moments earlier after he whacked his final service winner to beat Patrick Rafter 6-7 Sampras wins historic Wimbledon title
Above Dominic's bed hangs the watercolour painting he made as a gift for his twin sister Rebecca and the letters sent to him by relatives and friends.
Look at yourself. Are your eyes twinkling? Is your heart dancing? Are your lips smiling? If yes, then you are truly enjoying your life. RVM
León and Granada might be at opposing political extremes, but they are matching twins in their architecture.
Siamese twins died Friday night due to a complex congenital cardiopathy (a badly formed heart that both shared and which was incapable of pumping blood), according to Radio Programas del Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Terry rolled his eyes, but the green orbs twinkled with amusement.
The men believe the twins hold mystical powers that make them invincible in their battles against the Myanmar military.
This result should reassure women planning pregnancies, their healthcare providers, and the wider health community that the evidence of an association between folic acid and an increase in twinning is probably false.
And now the engineer pulled out the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter of the train faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle into indistinctness.
This is awfully sad but they say that twins are very close. Times, Sunday Times
In addition to the line, the secondary is a question mark for the Terrapins, who will be looking for Kenny Tate and Antwine Perez to step up their game now that they are the projected starters at safety, while redshirt freshman Dexter McDougle could find himself starting at corner. Around the Atlantic Coast Conference
The twins fight tooth and nail over the slightest disagreement.
Crucially, twins can be identical, sharing all their genes, and nonidentical, sharing half. Times, Sunday Times
Scorpene inherited the twin problems of extreme multiple personality.
All rooms are twin bedded with a private loo, bath and shower; some have a lake view.
Europe has a similar interest, having suffered, with the train bombings in Madrid, the kind of fanatic nihilism that visited the Twin Towers.
When a gene on a more typical chromosome mutates, the chromosome can still recombine with its twin.
The Twins have lost three in a row since qualifying for the postseason.
However, the bi-polar Albert Square resident is in for a fright when she feels a "twinge" in her tummy and worries she is losing the baby. Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine
The vine twines round/up the pole.
Oh, and did I mention the two red roses entwined on our bed by a single silk ribbon? Times, Sunday Times
Â Twin brother Daniel, however, grew up in the faith, becoming the local houngan of their hometown, while Jericho went to the United States to become a psychologist and physician. Review: Doctor Voodoo #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Flight Controls Ailerons, rudder and elevator driven by twin hydraulic servo-actuators, and push-pull rod linkage.
− 92-95% of heifer calves born to twin to a bull − Female organs develop, but are male-like − Commonly seen with enlarged vulva, and long vulva hairs; but some born with no external clues − Virtually always sterile Genetic Upsets − Most common is "hermaphroditism" − Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Who hath done you this injury, I know not, but Time hath shown that his lordship's twin brother, Lord Stephen Rome, lately decd., with whom the Anthony Lyveden
He hated waste and ostentatious consumption, and the car he developed at Ford, the Falcon, reflected his twin commitments to economy and safety.
Both the twin brothers were born and bred in London.
Viola is shipwrecked off the coast of Illyria and, separated from her twin Sebastian, believes him drowned.
Indeed, the fugue's subject is almost a twin to the opening theme of Flos campi.
Continue beside the loch to Taynuilt from where you can see twin-peaked Ben Cruachan (3,695ft) to the left of the road.
In the twinkle of an eye two powerful Quadi followed the dispensator, and, seizing Chilo by the remnant of his hair, tied his own rags around his neck and dragged him to the prison. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
Sunlight poured down from the window in the upper ante-room, to the twin flights of the stairs.
And honestly, the answer, so far as I can tell from eleven months in the twin trenches, is nothing. The worms will save us all. « A Bird’s Nest
a longitudinal study of twins
The plan was to have a cross set inside the twin interlocking triangles of the Star of David. The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy
If you think this is no more than a VW Phaeton with twin turbos and a longer wheelbase, you're missing the point.
Electron micrographs revealed that the sheets and filaments were composed of densely packed colloidal rods of twinned witherite crystals interspersed and coated with silica.
She's got a mischievous sense of humour and a twinkle in her eye. The Sun
Witty and warm with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. The Sun
The entire modern history of South Africa is inextricably intertwined with sport. Times, Sunday Times
• The only way to approach the Twins 'big hitters is with velocity. USATODAY.com - Twins underrated on offense, in bullpen
The vibey twin-cylinder engine disguised its true potential with a linear predictability. The Sun
These were substantially built of timber and talipots, thatched with cadjans and bamboo leaves, and festooned and decorated as the Singhalese only can decorate - leaves, flowers and fruit being entwined together with so much delicacy and airy tastefulness as to impart an almost fairy-like form to the pavilion.
The combination of intellectual integrity and a twinkle in the eye inspired affection as well as respect. Times, Sunday Times
The prison service pursues the twin goals of the punishment and rehabilitation of offenders.
I loaded up my rusting fishing tackle in the back of his wife's Lexus SUV (his BMW was in the shop for a $1,000 oil change), and off we went to his boathouse, from where we set off in his 40-foot twin-screw cruiser.
They began to talk loudly and at length on a range of topics: the benefits of various air miles and insurance packages; the moral beatitude of wealth creation; their twin enthusiasms for brand development and soul music.
They twinkled bright in the dark sky, beautiful and old and they made her unimportant.
This is neither surprising or unique, as nation and state have been closely intertwined concepts in the modem world.
Mark trained Elizabeth for the role of messenger for the Brotherhood, and together they were able to fulfill the mission of their twin flames by bringing forth the Brotherhood's teachings for the Aquarian age.
Fares shown are per person based on two people sharing lowest twin-bedded cabin category available and include all applicable discounts. Times, Sunday Times
These were wild and miserable thoughts; but I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me, and how I listened to every blast of wind, as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me. Chapter 17
But the Twins 'old dugout is now filled with hundreds of blue folding chairs in long stacks, and Mr. Lester, in his 24th year in charge of the dome's day-to-day operation, admitted he feels a bit lonelier in the old place these days. Take Me In to the Ballgame
You can also use a twin needle on most domestic machines.
Warne is closer to Steve's twin, Mark, and he has not always agreed with the captain - but you will not winkle an ounce of dissent out of him.
He took some time to examine the still-healing wound on her leg that still gave her twinges of pain when pressed.
I can't tell him from his twin brother.
Recycle beer or other decorative bottles into tumblers by soaking a piece of garden twine in kero and tying around the bottle at the point you want to separate.
We've bloodied noses and bit off ears with the best of them, before even the US was a twinkle in someone's eye.
This was confabulated into Christian mythology, the converted Norse intertwining the character with one of the first saints of the region, Saint Nicholas.
She looked into his gorgeous, blue eyes that had a dull twinkle in them.
The twins sheltered from the storms by learning the art of batik painting, colouring in the exotic fish between their wax outlines.
My twin sister and I have got the same nose.
Jillian and Graham sat on either side of a silver-plated candelabrum, its twin red candles dripping wax onto the paper tablecloth, empty coffee cups in front of them.
The pale woman, bosom exposed, is entwined with a dark man wearing a sullen expression and a skull cap.
The stupidity that excretes from the mouths of the rightwing underbelly is just astonishing U.S. prepared to push for crippling sanctions, Iran warned
By the early decades of the nineteenth century, Levy explains, consistent pressure on women's reading habits had caused cultural and biological reproduction to become intertwined.
Thus began my journey into astrology - a journey where law and astrology have been closely intertwined.
Ed Norton stars in this film about twin brothers -- one a professor at Brown University, the other a redneck -- who come back together in Oklahoma when the ne'er-do-well, marijuana-dealing brother is implicated in a criminal matter. Ed Koch: Leaves of Grass (A Mayor Koch Review)
The twin brothers always enjoy going to the concert.
The Guardian's US journalists on Twitter In the UK, the rightwing Tories worked to ditch what they called the 'nasty party' image Did they export it over here? The Guardian World News
Nevertheless, uncritical acceptance of the results of classical twin studies may have misled a generation of researchers.
It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody. Times, Sunday Times
Shelley saw how, as the sun faded among the trees just as we would see it now: ‘pallid evening twines its beaming hair in duskier braids around the languid eyes of day: silence and twilight, unbeloved of men, creep hand in hand’.
The small mote on her forehead distinguishes her from her twin sister.
Under epidural anesthesia, a single 4-mm trocar sheath was placed into the amniotic sac of the recipient twin. Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)
Its 300-mm Primo D-RIE system leverages a twin-station, mini-batch cluster architecture with a single-wafer environment and a VHF de-coupled RIE plasma source.
Voices came from the battlements, and a twinkle of steel.
It had arches and balconies entwined with bougainvillaea, and wide patios with tubs of vivid red geraniums. At The Spaniard's Convenience
The stars twinkled brightly in the night sky above her head.
One stoical person’s mild twinge is another, more sensitive patient’s agony. On a scale of one to ten...
But we'll keep them in twinsets for the actual episodes, so the women's magazines can keep selling that crap about how the ladylike look is in again.
160 towns in Ireland will twinned with 160 visiting countries from around the world.
Her hair is freshly set in loose curls and her green eyes twinkle behind spectacles. The Sun
A sharp twinge of pain caused him to take in a hissing breath in an effort to resist temptation of crying out as she found the spot.
The snake twined over the ground.
He had tackled the twin problems of the Ecclestone fib and the petrol crisis head on-by ignoring them.
Circles ringed and shadowed them, but still they twinkled brightly.
At sea, the sailors are continually engaged in "parcelling," "serving," and in a thousand ways ornamenting and repairing the numberless shrouds and stays; mending sails, or turning one side of the deck into a rope-walk, where they manufacture a clumsy sort of twine, called spun-yarn. Redburn. His First Voyage
My own family's history is deeply entwined with that of the Northcote electorate.
All of these flaws came to a head during the week of rioting and looting, when rolling news media overdosed on graphic but often misleading imagery, politicians over-reacted and the rightwing print media went apeshit. Has Newsnight lost its way?
Morville also discusses "intertwingularity," a term authored by Ted Nelson to express the complexity of interrelations in human knowledge. Search Engine Watch Blog
If she still won't budge it could be twin beds. The Sun
Book of Hours begins with an image of the twin towers, protrusive amongst the mid-rise buildings that surrounded them at ground zero. Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed
They have just about sailed between the twin jagged rocks of Maastricht and recession.
It means the twins inherited a different combination of genes from their parents. The Sun
On the lowest lawn twin rows of classical statues eyed each other across a sward dotted with croquet-hoops. ULTIMATE PRIZES
The twins are so alike that no one can distinguish one from the other.
Fingerprints were in fact used to see whether twins were fraternal or identical.
Feeling disconnected in a chattering city of twinkling lights. Times, Sunday Times
Herculaneum, the twin city to Pompeii, suffered a similar fate but has proved more difficult to excavate.
The student first masters manipulation of the single sabre, then at a more advanced level, the twin swords.
These gases scatter light from the cosmic microwave background radiation as it passes through the clusters, similar to the way Earth's atmosphere can scatter starlight, making some stars twinkle.
They were amazed at the bright twinkling pattern of starlight as it shone through the window.
The basis of this weekly Robin installment is Baldeon's full-page image (click on thumbnail to the right) of the current Robin (Tim Drake) and the original Robin, now Nightwing (Dick Grayson), about to confront each other over ... well, some pool of immortality thing -- I wasn't really following. Archive 2008-04-01
Tarred marline is jute twine treated with a tarred solution for water resistance.
Prices based on two people sharing a twin room and subject to availability. Times, Sunday Times
Could that be where the explanation lies as to why she gave her already suicidal husband twin pistols as a Christmas present?
He is approached by a pair of twin preppies from Connecticut, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss (both played by actor Armie Hammer) - two privileged types who row crew and have the Olympics in their sites. Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Social Network
First off, it is kind of unsurprising that you, a rightwinger, would whine about Clinton. Think Progress » Congressman Attacks Liberal ‘Backbiters’ And ‘Naysayers’ For Criticizing Failed Missile Defense
Remove the twin needle stylet, and thread the Micro Sensor from the tip of the needle until the appropriate length for placement the entrance from the hub.
The twins were still making life hell for the old fogies around us with their incessant ‘Beatlemania’ style screaming.
The two are so entwined they are virtually inseparable. The Sun
At the site where the Twin Towers once stood a new spire can be seen from outside the courthouse. Times, Sunday Times
He was staring at the twin beds.
The bottom should be drawn up tightly, with a needleful of raffia, and a ball of twine of some bright harmonious color slipped in.
It's a cliché, but also a truism, that love and hate are not opposites but, rather, intimately entwined.
The phrase was apt because it captured the twin aspects of the Swiss, the aesthetic and the forensic. Times, Sunday Times
In the twinkling of an eye Flemming tried the cross-buttock, but it seemed that Merriwell had been expecting just such a move, for he passed his left leg behind Fred's right and through in front of Fred's left. Frank Merriwell's Races
The ivy and the vine and the poppy were closely entwined. Times, Sunday Times
You can try the Grand National, a twin-track racing coaster and the really brave can loop the loop on the Revolution.
Her eyes, a startling blue-gray danced and twinkled in the light streaming in from tall, elegant windows framed with green marble columns topped by gold-painted fluting.
The process is driven by the twin goals of participating in the new modern look and of accessing the authentically antique.
Although they are twins, they are worlds apart in their attitude to life.
In his mind, religion and politics were inseparably intertwined.
Among the Shoshones and Utes, twins were sometimes looked upon as a sign of impending bad luck.
Although the quartz encrustation protects the calcite from dissolving, it obscures the twinned nature of the crystals, which is revealed by mechanical removal of the crust.
The stars and planets that merrily twinkle, light years away, have inspired song lyrics and poems, become pivotal symbols in religion and have provided an eternal need for man to explore the concept of infinity.
One efficient method of covering the roof is to combine twin wall Lexon Thermoclear sheeting with Twinfix aluminium structural glazing bar.

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