Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: twigs
IPA transcription: [tw'ɪɡz]
Usage examples
  • Sweet smoke of burning twigs hovered in the autumn day
  • While strolling about he reached often for twigs of mesquite and chewed the leaves fiercely.
  • Then a handful of twigs is dipped in water and weighted with stones, while a spell is chanted.
  • Nut sticks make such fine whips, but they do not last; while birch twigs are just the opposite.
  • Two saplings of at least ten feet in length were cut from the chapparal, and trimmed clear of twigs.
  • After a few minutes of heat and light, the scene assumes a very different aspect. The emigrants run to the top of the twigs, bustle about actively.
  • There was still much to enjoy, for a mourning dove flew from her nest of twigs almost over Billy's head, and it made me quite happy to know that the gentle bird was brooding her eggs in my woods.
  • Herself a lover of high places, the Thomisus selects as the site of her nest one of the upper twigs of the rock-rose, her regular hunting-ground, a twig withered by the heat and possessing a few dead leaves, which curl into a little cottage.
  • After this fine last lesson I managed to make a small fire out of wet twigs, got a cup of tea, stripped off my dripping clothing, wrapped myself in a blanket and lay brooding on the gains of the day and plans for the morrow, glad, rich, and almost comfortable.
  • One of them drummed with a hammer on a kettle or small cask to imitate thunder; the second knocked two fire-brands together and made the sparks fly, to imitate lightning; and the third, who was called "the rain-maker," had a bunch of twigs with which he sprinkled water from a vessel on all sides.