twig

The words “California Republic” were painted in black ink with the chewed end of a twig.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 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

He then used that stripped, bent twig to spoon the termites into his mouth.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025

She always kept a twig from this bush on the top of her dresser.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Bird nests, for example, rely on a network of interwoven twigs and fibers to maintain their structure.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

In Vietnam, herons cast twigs in ponds like fly-fishermen to lure prey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

FKA twigs, who is also a singer and choreographer, said Baker's "extraordinary legacy is such an inspiration to me and to so many people".

From Barron's ● May 12, 2026

Naturally, Lowery’s own artistic collaborators are firing on all cylinders, from Andrew Droz Palermo’s lushly surreal cinematography to original songs by FKA twigs, Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX, supported by a score by Daniel Hart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

From behind us came more snapping of twigs.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Although nobody twigged at the time, she was in fact hinting that she was pregnant with her second child.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023

Then, eventually, they twigged that we were interested in biodiversity, flora, and fauna, and people started coming in with chameleons.

From The Verge ● Aug. 28, 2018

Many people on Wall Street twigged to this a good while ago.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 27, 2017

I first twigged to this on the occasion of Obama’s extraordinary appearance at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston after the June 17 murders last year.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2016

If Pamela really is the culprit, the evidence was right in front of us, and nobody twigged to it.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

The results of Archie's twigging were very apparent; notably the golden-oak rocking-chair, the "chiffoneer" surmounted by the bronze lady with a spear.

From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

Big Bob was no less inquisitive than the others, despite his twigging of Frank for his curiosity.

From The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Gerald Breckenridge

She was touched but alarmed, and decided that she would better hasten the wedding if only to put a stop to this indiscriminate twigging.

From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

He and Bob knew they would be in for a certain amount of twigging because of their defeat, but he knew how to take it in good part.

From The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Gerald Breckenridge

You couldn't talk friendly to him without twigging that.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell