Get to know Twig better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like branch or tumble.
Twig in a sentence
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Twig meaning
- A small thin branch of a tree or bush.
- Somebody, or one of their body parts, not looking developed.
Synonyms of Twig
Using Twig
- The main meaning on this page is: A small thin branch of a tree or bush. | Somebody, or one of their body parts, not looking developed.
- Useful related words include: branch, get it, cotton on, latch on.
- In the example corpus, twig often appears in combinations such as: of twig, as twig, the twig.
Context around Twig
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Twig
- In this selection, "twig" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, oak, sacred, yellow, north, filled and book stand out and add context to how "twig" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a sacred twig while others and age oak twig from tell. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "twig" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with twig
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Scrape either a twig or bud with a thumbnail. (9 words)
Even the slightest snap of a twig filled him with fear. (11 words)
Twig the Fairy, one of the Renaissance Festival's many characters. (11 words)
As played by Redmayne, an actor who already becomes virtually invisible when not taking on some kind of hoary affectation, Dug’s characterization is so tenuous that his scripting begins and end at his ability to be tossed around with the ease of a twig. (45 words)
Armistice main In this painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes a woman holds up an oak twig as a symbol of hope for the nation's recovery from war and deprivation after the Franco-Prussian War. citation The Walters Art Museum. (41 words)
Twig said meth was a huge problem in the area, and warned that once nighttime hits, you'd usually see people 'walking around like zombies' on the streets and hear 'screaming' out your window. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Some recommended using a Sacred Twig, while others said to equip a Hunter's Ring so that the player gets pulled into another world.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart cast include Asher Keddie (Nine Perfect Strangers) as Sally Morgan, Frankie Adams () as Candy Blue, and Leah Purcell () as Twig North.
Twig of Lavish Fruits: Produces Lavish Fruits, so the boss can unleash its deadly Flamboyant Gore ability.
Even the slightest snap of a twig filled him with fear.
The Twig Book Shop at The Pearl is partnering with San Antonio-based animal conservation group Once in a Wild for a series of events pairing books and wildlife encounters.
They would also have been quite short, somewhere between two and four metres tall, with branches covered in hundreds of twig-like structures instead of leaves.
Twig said meth was a huge problem in the area, and warned that once nighttime hits, you'd usually see people 'walking around like zombies' on the streets and hear 'screaming' out your window.
Microscope image of Iron Age oak twig from Tell Tayinat in Hatay, Turkey.
Red and yellow twig dogwoods and paper bark birch add festive color to any arrangement.
Scrape either a twig or bud with a thumbnail.
Twig the Fairy, one of the Renaissance Festival's many characters.
Every limb, every twig is dense with seeds, a load so heavy that the lower branches are nearly brushing the ground.
Every wolfberry dangling from a twig, in Texas, in January, matters.
Surprisingly, a few fans on social media did not twig straight away that de Bruyne was fooling around.
As played by Redmayne, an actor who already becomes virtually invisible when not taking on some kind of hoary affectation, Dug’s characterization is so tenuous that his scripting begins and end at his ability to be tossed around with the ease of a twig.
He left behind a piece of himself, but what grew from that twig is an entirely new character who we've grown to appreciate.
Mandy Burdick, co-owner of TWIG, reports their store had an excellent sales evening.
We have to hear the twig cracking of the predator sneaking up behind us — that’s in that high-frequency range.
After mating, the female cuts slits into the bark of a twig where she deposits her eggs.
Armistice main In this painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes a woman holds up an oak twig as a symbol of hope for the nation's recovery from war and deprivation after the Franco-Prussian War. citation The Walters Art Museum.
Common combinations with twig
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of twig 4×
- as twig 2×
- the twig 2×
- oak twig 2×
- twig or 2×
- twig is 2×
- twig into 2×