twig

Example Sentences

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But at the very top, surviving terminals had sent out new twigs in the next growing season.

From Los Angeles Times

Remarkably, it turns out, the trunk, branches, twigs and leaves of the tree itself—the species populating it—furnish the mechanical components of such a device.

From The Wall Street Journal

Penelope gave a slow spin to the makeshift globe she had fashioned out of a roundish potato and a long birch twig that had been whittled to a point.

From Literature

Penelope’s family tree was scarcely more than a twig.

From Literature

As if someone were trying, and failing, to walk quietly on the twigs and leaves of the forest floor.

From Literature