Example sentences for: twain

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

  • And while we're on the subject of the tabloids' short memories: Why can't the Star remember what it says about country superstar Shania Twain?

  • 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:

  • Twain, she says, doesn't care what happens to Jim; Jim is just a dumb sidekick and the novel a precursor to the kinds of buddy movies in which a sweet black cop played by Danny Glover stands aside while a white hero played by Mel Gibson saves the day.

  • There ought to be room in the retelling of it for the letters Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass exchanged, for the similarities between Invisible Man and Ben Franklin's Autobiography , for the presence of Charles Chesnutt at the banquet to honor Twain shortly before the latter's death, and for the monument in Mississippi to the slaves who rode with a band of Confederate irregulars.

  • "PBS Follows Mark Twain's Journey"


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