Example sentences for: twigs

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

  • On the window above the sink a small container is stuffed with bits of leftovers--the red berries of barberry, small twigs of willow, cuttings of hinoki cypress with its fruits attached, and the pendulous leathery seed pods of wisteria.

  • They trudge one way, double back, pore over maps and compasses, whine, trudge some more, come upon mysterious piles of rocks or bundled twigs, and whine even louder.

  • Erica is ultimately from the Greek for `easily broken,' and Calluna is a Latin and Greek word for `sweep or broom,' heather twigs being superior to those of heath for this purpose, which indeed might leave as much mess as it cleared up.

  • At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small In blast-beruffled plume,Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom.

  • Dinner came later and later as the kitchen was covered in twigs, branches, and berries.


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