twig

Example Sentences

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Soon enough, trees everywhere were showing blotchy, mottled, yellowed leaves and suffering from twig dieback and sparse foliage.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

I’m so curious with the twig and the hair and the blood and the bell — Is that a thing?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

In 1960, during her first year at Gombe, Goodall observed a chimpanzee she called David Greybeard carefully strip a twig of leaves and use it to root out tasty termites from a mound.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2025

The chimp took a twig, bent and stripped it of its leaves, then he poked it into a termite's nest.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2025

I washed at the courtyard well and brushed my teeth with a twig from the neem tree.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan