Example Sentences

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Other acts include Major Lazer, indie-pop band Foster the People and British singer, dancer, and visual artist FKA twigs.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

But at the very top, surviving terminals had sent out new twigs in the next growing season.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

Remarkably, it turns out, the trunk, branches, twigs and leaves of the tree itself—the species populating it—furnish the mechanical components of such a device.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Kathleen would fill the holes with rolled-up newspaper or twigs but they would always be on the floor by the morning.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025

"No, but I've seen it on TV. When I was with Rani, she showed me how to use neem twigs to keep our mouths clean, and in jail we rubbed a powder on our teeth."

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman