'twas
Americancontraction
Usage
See contraction.
Example Sentences
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A male voice in the cast parried with a hint of old-world courtliness: “Yet ’twas well sung, my friend!”
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023
That Wasn’t a canal — nay, ’twas a hat.
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022
But men have it differently; 'twas ever thus.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2022
When I made the trip to Victoria in search of holiday entertainment, ’twas still more than 50 nights before Christmas and 19 days before post-turkey antacids started flying off the shelves.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2018
When in English, ‘twas thus: “No, sir, this, this—Aye, you, this”—There was much negotiation, and a tune played or sung, taken up by others, learned by those newly hearing it.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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