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

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

It had jammed between a tooth and the back of the Dragon's throat, as a twig had once caught in Star's throat.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

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

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

Other acts include Major Lazer, indie-pop band Foster the People and British singer, dancer, and visual artist FKA twigs.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

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 ● Dec. 26, 2025

For the brown hairstreak, both charities rely on volunteers going out in the middle of winter to look for tiny, pinhead-sized eggs on twigs using magnifying glasses.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025

Around the embers of each campfire, bundles of grass and twigs had been wrapped in blankets.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

“One night, returnin home to bed,    I walk’d through Pim-li-co, And, twigging of the Palass, sed,    ‘I’m Jones and In-i-go.’

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton

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

One night, returnin home to bed, I walk’d through Pim-li-co, And, twigging of the Palass, sed, “I’m Jones and In-i-go.”

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

You are right," said Smith, "I—was twigging you again.

From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby