Example sentences for: twain

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

  • Like Mark Twain, who said that "suicide is the only sane thing the young or old ever do in this life," we imagine that the elderly and the ill desire death rationally.

  • 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.

  • The July 27 issue boasted that one of the magazine's photographers had snagged the first photo ever taken of Twain and her husband, Mutt Lange, whom the story claimed is so camera-shy that he wouldn't even pose for his own wedding photos.

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

  • After writing a polemical 1996 essay attacking Huckleberry Finn as immoral, Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley sets out to improve on Twain with a novel about an abolitionist woman in antebellum Kansas Territory.


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