twined

Example Sentences

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Scenes of departures have become intimate portraits of loss and fear twined into the shared burden of survival.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2022

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

Her arms floated and twined, as if they had no bones or joints, as she dipped and rose to the urgent syncopated gongs of a gamelan orchestra.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2020

The strands started separately, and wove together, but as they spent time twined together, the dough merged.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack