'twas
Americancontraction
Usage
See contraction.
Example Sentences
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How I wanted you but, sniff, sniff, ’twas not to be.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
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
But men have it differently; 'twas ever thus.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022
But she said, “I misunderstood; ’twas not romantic lore: The word, she spoke was fourrier, defined as “comes before.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018
Her lips were curved, like the smile of a cat, and something got into me — maybe ’twas the devil.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
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