twined

Example Sentences

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Her wall features one seasonally rotating space that includes a hook, to which she ties twined bundles of winter branches and berries, spring grasses or autumn lavender.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2022

Baskets to carry things, baskets for cooking, baskets for ceremonies, baskets to trap eels, baskets to cradle children: All are twined from the stems of burned hazel.

From National Geographic • Dec. 17, 2020

But the sorrow here is always twined with comedy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2020

For him as for most playwrights, the conjoint themes of society and self — twined in an embrace that is intimate yet suffocating — are the basis of all great theater.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2018

Ivy twined her hands together and held her breath.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake