How to Use twig in a Sentence

twig

noun

• In the same setting as above, imagine there are 100 ants on the twig.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Feb. 2021
• On Montgomery Road, the top half of a large pine tree was snapped off like a twig.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2023
• Use your fingernail or a knife to scratch the bark on a twig or a branch.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2021
• By June and July, leaves and twigs can litter the ground.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
• The man uses a stick for a cane and carries a bundle of long twigs strapped to his back.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023
• The architecture of the otter’s nest is a bunch of twigs.
  — Patrick Cottrell, Harper's Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• Snowshoe hares, 3-pound bundles of stringy muscle and a touch of fat, eat the bark, leaves and small twigs.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 28 May 2023
• Sometimes, all of these cuts cause twigs to wither or snap, killing leaves.
  — Celia Ford, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
• With luck, the twig will grow into a clone of the tree in the silo, and produce more of the same delicious fruit.
  — Jacob Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
• But with twig-like legs and wimpy flappers, the insect is not going to get too far.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2018
• Fallen twigs and branches littered the ground in places.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 July 2023
• Not twigs, mind you, but big, heavy limbs that would fall straight down with a thunk and a shoosh of dead leaves onto my front lawn.
  — Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
• The first kind, a non-hooked tool, is typically a twig or a stem found on the forest floor.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Jan. 2022
• An inexpensive twig wreath provides the base and dried moss helps fill in the gaps.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2023
• While there, researchers found a red insect perched on a twig and captured it.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
• The larvae hatch and feed inside, hollowing out the twig, which then dies.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2024
• Create loops from a thin twig and tie in place with wax twine to create eye-glasses shape.
  — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 12 Aug. 2022
• The coup de grace, however, is the moment the 1,600-ton ship is lifted into the air, her keel snapped in half like a twig.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Sep. 2021
• The skirt underneath, the rhinestones, the twigs, that was all Amanda Tori Meating.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2024
• Bypass pruning shears have two curved blades and are best for slicing twigs, thin roots, and vines.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2023
• One of my favorite artists to photograph was FKA twigs.
  — Seth Dodson, Pitchfork, 6 May 2024
• The crow is teaching itself how to slice a forked twig from the yew tree into a three-pronged tool for digging grubs out of a tree trunk.
  — Anne Carson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• When building a fire, use small sticks and twigs rather than large logs that create more heat than is needed.
  — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
• Gather dry tinder, such as birchbark, and a large amount of dry twigs for kindling.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
• Your yard won’t have to look like a big ol’ pile of twigs, because being mindful doesn’t equal being messy.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• Make a cheap Halloween twig wreath with supplies from your backyard!
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2022
• With a leftover piece of wood or a wood plaque, create a pumpkin shape using the twigs and attach them with hot glue.
  — Shelby Deering, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
• Gillian Segal kept it simple with a neutral palette and a stray twig.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 11 Aug. 2023
• Which is to say: The best grudges are small, persistent and powerful, like an ant hauling a twig.
  — Alex McElroy, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• No forked twigs for this fella, he’s got the fancy metal or corkscrew rod holders.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024