Example Sentences

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We like Cumberbatch and Colman’s Theo and Ivy, even after they’ve become tantrum-throwing twits.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

Maybe, too, you and your family were such twits to her when your son first brought her home that she learned to withdraw as a coping strategy when you're around.

From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2021

In the song, by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid, Luker twits her image as a “spoonful of saccharine” but also punctures it.

From New York Times • May 2, 2021

It’s just that not sending a thank-you note could signal that we haven’t received it or that we’re ill-mannered twits.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2020

She stalks away, muttering about twits who flaunt regulation.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir