Example Sentences

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The bread basket could pass for a bakery, filled as it is with twiglike grissini, tender focaccia, an Italian roll that tastes like a flaky croissant flavored with Parmesan and sometimes even slices of pizza.

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2022

The wrenching spectacle of child polio victims begging in that nation’s streets, with their twiglike legs folded beneath them, is now history.

From Scientific American • Oct. 23, 2019

In fall, the short, twiglike deciduous trees scattered around should show their golden leaves.

From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 13, 2014

A nurse tries for half an hour to inject antibiotics into Amoni's twiglike arm, its wrinkled skin wrapped loosely around the bones.

From Time Magazine Archive

They called me gobo ashi, after the long, brown, twiglike root vegetable, gobo.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston