How to Use two in a Sentence

two

noun

• It was two in the morning.
• The group ran the court for an hour, playing games to 13 by twos and threes.
  — Bruce Schoenfeld, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2016
• The guard-heavy Roos knocked down 11 three-pointers and 10 twos.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 19 Jan. 2018
• For instance, the first time is by twos, then by threes, then by fours.
  — Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2020
• The stars come in twos and the championships come in bakers’ dozens.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• The twos were running with a walk-on at center and a walk-on at left guard.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Apr. 2018
• With ones and twos, shots from behind the arc are now 100% more valuable.
  — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 24 July 2019
• The night before the fence was erected, young men stood in the parking lot in clusters of twos and threes.
  — Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2019
• The players are shooting threes (3-point shots), but the fans are talking twos.
  — Fred Bowen, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
• The mini-burgers are sold singly, in twos and threes, or in 16-pack boxes.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2018
• The Warriors don’t have to be told that long twos are not as valuable as layups and 3-pointers.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2018
• Barrington tied the game with twos outs in the top of the seventh on a two-run single by Rachel Krzysko.
  — Tony Baranek, Daily Southtown, 10 June 2017
• If the 3x3 Olympics games were played with twos and threes, that would also be acceptable.
  — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 24 July 2019
• For the most part, people sat in twos or threes with ample grassy space between them.
  — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 4 May 2020
• Nearby, a few children were skipping rocks, and people sat on the beach in twos and threes.
  — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2017
• Lots of long twos and three-pointers, and the Razorbacks also have three turnovers.
  — Scottie Bordelon, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2023
• Flagrant One fouls are worth one point, while flagrant twos are worth two points.
  — Sam Amick, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
• The terrible twos have nothing on the middle school blues.
  — Christine Coppa, Good Housekeeping, 27 Jan. 2016
• Older women in twos and threes strolled along, pulling through the racks, pausing here and there to tug at a waistband, check a price, buy a pair.
  — Neil Shea, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• This is the tune-up game for Oklahoma State the week after, and Dillingham will get his twos in the mix midway through the second half.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 28 Aug. 2023
• The year’s ending, but the mood feels like a regular day: groups of twos and threes of the students are lost in conversation.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• Judases twos and threes stink, so special teams still smell.
  — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• The boys pair up in twos, with the older, experienced boys leading the younger ones through the entire cemetery.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, Post-Tribune, 25 May 2018
• Sounds will also be provided by local DJs who are planning to battle it out on the ones and twos live in the park.
  — AL.com, 10 July 2017
• Almost everything you are supposed to do with children is set up in twos and fours.
  — Robin Marty, Cosmopolitan, 11 Sep. 2017
• First in ones and twos, limping up the steps and staggering through the aluminum doors, and then in wheelbarrows, with bleeding skulls and stabbed necks.
  — Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2020
• The Jayhawks took almost exactly as many threes as twos, but made just six of the former, and had just nine free-throw attempts.
  — Molly Geary, SI.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Baylor made 13 of 19 twos in the second half, with the team getting numerous shots at the rim against a KU defense that struggled to stop Lecomte late.
  — Jesse Newell, kansascity, 9 Feb. 2018
• However, in the last couple years, part ones and twos have started to return again, at least until a few weeks ago when Mission: Impossible 8 decided to drop its part two title.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
• Israeli attempts to free the hostages by military force have produced mixed results, with some succeeding in rescuing ones and twos, while others have ended in disaster.
  — Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024