twiggy
Example Sentences
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Weyerhaeuser trained an AI model to pore over drone footage and calculate seedling survival rates, which are typically obtained by sending foresters to count twiggy young trees in rugged or sweltering terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Strappy white petals adorn bare branches on a rounded shrub with a twiggy branching habit that grows to 10-by-12 feet in 10 years.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2022
Even after a week of treatment with enriched formula, the boy, Sharaf Shaitah, lay motionless on a hospital bed, his bones peeking through the skin of his twiggy limbs.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2021
After flowering, it resorts to being a dull, twiggy shrub for 50 weeks of the year.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2021
She was to reach under the thick twiggy construction for a place to grasp.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
