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“You dare block me on twitter... see my next move,” said one.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024
“LD check twitter asap,” Magee texted Donovan, “and prob fire your barber.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
“And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk posted on the site.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
“And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk tweeted Sunday.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
It came, a twitter, a coo, a subdued roar that seemed trying to tell me something, give me some message.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Looking like a miniature killer whale, it twitters in flight.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2020
We startle a chunky little woodcock that's sheltering in the long grass and it twitters its indignation shrilly.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2020
She added, “I’m personally tired of all the twitters and the twotters.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2017
He smiles, she twitters, and the next day the newspapers are headlining, “Who’s That Girl?”
From Time ● Nov. 22, 2011
Gran twitters on for another five minutes, filling me in on mundane news: Heather has decided she wants to become a librarian.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
The other players twinklingly twittered as Campbell’s hand slid up and down the neck of his cello, for a woozy ondes Martenot effect.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
As the orange ball of the sun rose on the horizon and birds twittered in the eucalypti, Baumgarten showed up—a fit, poised, attractive guy in his 40s.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 2, 2020
He twittered on about last night’s screening, then asked me to think of a piece to write for Vogue, so that’s a relief.
From MSNBC ● Nov. 15, 2017
He shows how observing the nesting larks that twittered above 'no man's land' and natural cycles such as the seasons gave a sense of renewal, and how animal 'troops' were inspirationally loyal.
From Nature ● Nov. 15, 2016
The brother-in-law growled in his throat like a happy tomcat and the pregnant ladies twittered like alouettes singing to the sun.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
It helps nurture a slower, older way of life, with pocket flocks and modest dairy herds enclosed by thick hedgerows foaming with cow parsley and twittering songbirds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
On a long low wall alongside the Liangshui river in Beijing, a trader has several small cages with tiny twittering birds.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
On a spring day, with wildflowers blooming and birds twittering, the war can seem far away.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2022
Comical flocks of guinea fowl scampered back and forth, twittering.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2021
She was sitting on the teacher’s desk, alone except for a small ring of twittering yellow birds circling her head, which she had clearly just conjured out of midair.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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