Example sentences for: twain

How can you use “twain” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Twain continues: “a tree is male, its buds are female, its leaves are neuter; horses are sexless, dogs are male, cats are female--tomcats included.”

  • Royko wasn't quite a Twain, or a Mencken, but his writing was distinctive and memorable and in its time the closest thing to lasting literature in a daily paper.

  • This week, the Star runs a two-page "Star Style Special" cover story ("Shania: I'm not beautiful") that claims to have all the dirt on country superstar Shania Twain's "secret flaws" and what she's doing "to make herself perfect," including using a skin ointment meant for softening cows' udders.

  • Mark Twain poses us a little mystery in Pudd'nhead Wilson: which knife does the killing?

  • In his essay “The Awful German Language,” Mark Twain spoofs the confusion engendered by German gender by translating from a conversation in a German Sunday school book:


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