Example Sentences

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But twitting a playwright for not being Shakespeare is blatantly unfair, so it’s best to leave the rest unquoted.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2017

Before long, the poster boy for “Tory modernization”—and, it emerged, a passionate user of the textspeak “LOL,” which he used to mean “lots of love”—was twitting away himself.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 14, 2016

The triangle always felt like a deliberate twitting of Twilight's similar setup.

From The Verge • Nov. 18, 2015

When he coined that phrase 60 years ago, New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling was twitting Chicagoans for their obsession with not measuring up to New York.

From Newsweek • Feb. 27, 2011

He was a little squabby man, but very broad, with a nervous twitting laugh, and in his manner he was extremely intimate and confidential.

From The Watchers A Novel by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)