How to Use twain in a Sentence

twain

noun

• I like rap and my parents like country music, and never the twain shall meet in our house.
• Almost ne’er the twain did meet — though that could soon change.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2017
• The twains of the have and have-nots, blacks and whites, privileged and oppressed still vow to never meet.
  — Dallas News, 2 June 2020
• Sports are sports and real life is real life and never the twain shall meet.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 31 May 2022
• The Victorian world was cleft in twain, with men on one side, and women on the other.
  — Hugh Ryan, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2019
• While the mechanisms are different, the result is the same: Never the twain shall meet.
  — Libby Copeland, Smithsonian, 15 June 2017
• This side in one corner, that side in the other corner and never the twain will meet, much less talk civilly.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• But the twain do meet at the island’s golf courses, tennis courts, sailing school and beaches.
  — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 16 May 2018
• Ne’er shall the twain between classical music and jazz meet.
  — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• Ultimately, there are phone people and then there are Note people, and never the twain shall meet.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2018
• Reuters/Will Dunham Few topics arouse the passions of Americans like god and government and whether the twain shall meet.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2020
• The goal: Figuring out the easiest and cheapest way to cross off everything on on a back-to-school shopping list -- and whether the twain would ever meet.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 24 July 2017
• Harris, as the nation’s first vice president who is Black, as well as South Asian and female, will be under particular pressure to make the twain meet.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• And when everything is correct, the twain never shall meet: Coolant stays outside the cylinders and the combustion materials stay inside.
  — Ray Magliozzi, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• America is beset by tribalism, a poisonous partisanship: red camp, blue camp, and never the twain shall meet.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 July 2021
• Apparently, this was that rare case of the twain meeting, as officers went to the woman’s address and soon gave a lost reveler a ride back to Bridgewater State University.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• Gravitational-wave detectors work (see diagram) by splitting a laser beam in twain.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• But never the twain did meet until college became the country’s sole (respectable, reliable) pathway to economic advancement.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• I like rap and my parents like country music, and never the twain shall meet in our house.
• Almost ne’er the twain did meet — though that could soon change.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2017
• The twains of the have and have-nots, blacks and whites, privileged and oppressed still vow to never meet.
  — Dallas News, 2 June 2020
• Sports are sports and real life is real life and never the twain shall meet.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 31 May 2022
• The Victorian world was cleft in twain, with men on one side, and women on the other.
  — Hugh Ryan, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2019
• While the mechanisms are different, the result is the same: Never the twain shall meet.
  — Libby Copeland, Smithsonian, 15 June 2017
• This side in one corner, that side in the other corner and never the twain will meet, much less talk civilly.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• But the twain do meet at the island’s golf courses, tennis courts, sailing school and beaches.
  — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 16 May 2018
• Ne’er shall the twain between classical music and jazz meet.
  — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• Ultimately, there are phone people and then there are Note people, and never the twain shall meet.
  — David Pierce, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2018
• Reuters/Will Dunham Few topics arouse the passions of Americans like god and government and whether the twain shall meet.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2020
• The goal: Figuring out the easiest and cheapest way to cross off everything on on a back-to-school shopping list -- and whether the twain would ever meet.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 24 July 2017

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024