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How to use twig in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Twig means a small thin branch of a tree or bush. Example: “They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.”

Examples of twig by meaning

nounA small thin branch of a tree or bush.

  • They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.
  • A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC

nounSomebody, or one of their body parts, not looking developed.

  • Whether it be the jock in high school that always called you fat, or the guy who picked on you and called you a twig.2007 February 24, Matt Weik, CSCS, “Successful Tips and Tricks For Contest Prep!”, in Bodybuilding.com, archived from the original on 16...
  • Schwarzenegger was long past his professional bodybuilding days when he and Carrere shot the tango scene, but he wasn’t a twig.2022 July 19, Jason Rossi, “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Most Dangerous Mistake on ‘True Lies’: ‘It Would Have Put Us Back 30 Days in the...

verbTo realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.

  • He hasn't twigged that we're planning a surprise party for him.
  • I twigged him at once, by the description you gave me.1915, “Putting on the Screw”, in Caught in the Net, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, translation of Les Esclaves de Paris by Émile...
  • Well, with fewer people doing two or three times the work, you may have already twigged to this.2012 May 30, John E. McIntyre, “A future for copy editors”, in Baltimore Sun, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2013

verbTo be realized and understood; to click.

  • It hadn't twigged that the reason we needed to bring our own water was that the camp itself was a warzone.2009, Tammie Matson, Elephant Dance
  • Then it twigged – he was proposing.2023 October 26, Francesca Street, “Two strangers moved into an apartment in Prague. Then they fell in love”, in CNN Travel

verbTo understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.

  • Do you twig me?

More sentences with twig

  • He stabbed at my face with the twig but luckily kept missing my eyes.From the entry stab
  • He inconsiderately let the twig snap back at her.From the entry inconsiderately
  • A birch twig or a cornstalk is monopodial.From the entry monopodial
  • Cat. lluquet 'bundle of dry and sulfated twigs or straw that easily catches fire'2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 51. From the entry sulfated
  • Also near eye level, his twig and berries taunt my emaciated masculinity.2021, Kendall Grey, Fooled. From the entry twig and berries
  • The fingers had withered into puckered twigs; her little nail had fallen off entirely.2019 September 10, Tamsyn Muir, chapter 20, in Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb; 1), New York, N.Y.: Tor.com, published 2020, →ISBN, act 3. From the entry little nail
  • The thick, furry twigs of ailanthus suckers leave her fingers stinking of coffee and peanut butter.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 173. From the entry ailanthus
  • “I don't know,” she replied, baking some levash bread over a twig fire.2015, Thomas Goltz, Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-rich, War-torn, Post-Soviet Republic: A Rogue Reporter's…. From the entry levash
  • The samples are quartered and are further divided, e.g. into needles, leaves and leaveless twigs.2013, M. Böhmer, M. Kucera, Prospecting and Exploration of Mineral Deposits. From the entry leaveless
  • To some observers a karesansui is just twigs, rocks and grit.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 193. From the entry karesansui
  • These sterigmata are retained and make the twigs rough for several years after leaf fall.2009, J.E. Eckenwalder, Conifers of the World: The Complete Reference, Timber Press, →ISBN. From the entry sterigma
  • His nose starts squirting blood right before I kick him square in the twig and giggle berries.2008, Stephanie Hale, Twisted Sisters, Berkley JAM, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry giggle berries
  • Two small green-feathered birds, no bigger than mice, jumped from twig to twig in the nearby grass.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 419. From the entry night parrot
  • By contrast, the leaves of bald cypress are arranged in a spiral all around the twigs.2006 June 27, Robert Mohlenbrock, This Land: A Guide to Eastern National Forests, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry pond cypress
  • George Burton fell off the twig while being interviewed about his book.2000 February 5, Douglas Watkinson et al., “Beyond the Grave”, in Midsomer Murders. From the entry fall off the twig
  • Sometimes the smell of a bruised twig is a noseworthy feature.1999, Robert Barkman, Science through multiple intelligences: patterns that inspire inquiry. From the entry noseworthy
  • Spicebush, sassafras, and tulip tree twigs have an extremely spicy odor.1999, Robert Barkman, Science through multiple intelligences: patterns that inspire inquiry. From the entry noseworthy
  • Now raspberries grow above me, On a rocking twig of a sloebush a robin chirps.1995, Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry sloebush
  • He shuts his eyes, and drops the twig of karamu he holds in his left hand.1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 340. From the entry karamu
  • Ann had plucked a twig of forsythia, and was trying to arrange it in her hair.1981 April 25, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voicens In The Night”, in Gay Community News, page 13. From the entry forsythia
  • The coscorobas built a nest in February with twigs and brush provided by their keepers.1950, Parks & Recreation. From the entry coscoroba
  • There is no limitation on sound burls, birdeyes or twig specks.1943, Allocations & Priorities Guide, number 19, page 227. From the entry birdeye
  • A raft of twigs stayed upon a stone, suddenly detached itself, and floated towards the culvert.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished…. From the entry culvert
  • Nearly all shots were fouled by twigs or branches.2013, Miles Johannesburg, The Airgun Hunters Chronicles. From the entry foul
  • The flames melt into each other like antishadows, climb atop the backs of old papers and twigs and start to burn.2012, Leah Bobet, Above, →ISBN. From the entry antishadow
  • The snowboy’s arms were twigs, and to keep his head warm, Junior made a sailor’s hat from a piece of newspaper.2011, Katia Lief, Soul Catcher, →ISBN. From the entry snowboy
  • The floor, the pews, the stripped-bare altar are strewn with leaves, twigs, orange needles from the blasty boughs of spruce trees.2010, Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir. From the entry blasty
  • Almost any item can be used for this purpose: a birch twig, a whalebone, and even a hanger.2002, Michael Shermer, The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry dowser
  • Not one of them had twigged my "transdar."1996 July 24, Janet W. Hardy, “Re: Independence Day - The movie”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet). From the entry transdar
  • The most clear-cut species boundaries are among gallers of different plant parts — leaf blade, petiole, bud and twig.1994, Peter W. Price, William J. Mattson, Yuri N. Baranchikov, The Ecology and Evolution of Gall-forming Insects, page 181. From the entry galler

Meaning of twig

  1. noun A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
  2. noun Somebody, or one of their body parts, not looking developed.
  3. verb To beat with twigs.

Full definition of twig

Questions about twig in a sentence

How do you use twig in a sentence?
Twig is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They used twigs and leaves as a base to start the fire.”
What is a short sentence with twig?
“Do you twig me?”
What does twig mean?
Twig means a small thin branch of a tree or bush.

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