Example sentences for: twain

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

  • It should be noted of the library's treatments of Mark Twain and Henry James, which Kerr covets for Gertrude Stein, that their thinnest volumes comprise 1,029 and 845 pages, respectively.

  • Mark Twain parodies this custom in the opening paragraph of Huck Finn , when he has Huck assure the reader that The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was true, even though written by this other fellow, Mark Twain: "There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth."

  • 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.

  • On the other hand, if you set aside her excessive loathing of Twain, some of her points are hard to argue with.

  • On the other hand, he's got Mark Twain between him and daylight.


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