twain

Example Sentences

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When the wind blows hard, and their branches and boughs thrash and creak, I am convinced they will topple over and cleave my home in twain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

“This is one of the evils of the ‘two cultures’ myth,” he says: Some students are channeled into scientific subjects, and others into humanities, and “never the twain shall meet.”

From Science Magazine • Jan. 18, 2023

Writing was writing, art was art, and never the twain should meet.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2022

We're either talking feelings or we're talking fractions and never the twain shall meet.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2022

And at Batavia High School, never the twain shall meet.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed