twig

The words “California Republic” were painted in black ink with the chewed end of a twig.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Soon enough, trees everywhere were showing blotchy, mottled, yellowed leaves and suffering from twig dieback and sparse foliage.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

In 1960, during her first year at Gombe, Goodall observed a chimpanzee she called David Greybeard carefully strip a twig of leaves and use it to root out tasty termites from a mound.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2025

The chimp took a twig, bent and stripped it of its leaves, then he poked it into a termite's nest.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025

I shifted nervously, and a dead twig snapped beneath my boot.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Some create burrows in the ground, others use cavities in wood such as tree hollows or fallen branches, and some nest inside plant stems or small existing holes in twigs.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026

British music star FKA twigs is to play Josephine Baker in a new biopic of the Roaring Twenties icon who became a hero of the French Resistance and the American civil rights movement.

From Barron's ● May 12, 2026

They also have to remove leaves, twigs and needles from gutters, and they already cannot keep exposed firewood in piles next to their house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026

Remarkably, it turns out, the trunk, branches, twigs and leaves of the tree itself—the species populating it—furnish the mechanical components of such a device.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

What she had taken for twigs were bones.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

In the first of two days of testimony, Mr Johnson said he should have "twigged" the seriousness of Covid sooner, conceding earlier action could have been taken against the virus.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023

Then, eventually, they twigged that we were interested in biodiversity, flora, and fauna, and people started coming in with chameleons.

From The Verge ● Aug. 28, 2018

The Packers quickly twigged that unless he removed them it meant he would not be involved in subsequent plays.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 31, 2017

Many people on Wall Street twigged to this a good while ago.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 27, 2017

If Pamela really is the culprit, the evidence was right in front of us, and nobody twigged to it.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

“One night, returnin home to bed,    I walk’d through Pim-li-co, And, twigging of the Palass, sed,    ‘I’m Jones and In-i-go.’

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton

You couldn't talk friendly to him without twigging that.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

She was touched but alarmed, and decided that she would better hasten the wedding if only to put a stop to this indiscriminate twigging.

From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

He and Bob knew they would be in for a certain amount of twigging because of their defeat, but he knew how to take it in good part.

From The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Gerald Breckenridge

Big Bob was no less inquisitive than the others, despite his twigging of Frank for his curiosity.

From The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Gerald Breckenridge