twig

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

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

I’m so curious with the twig and the hair and the blood and the bell — Is that a thing?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 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

He then used that stripped, bent twig to spoon the termites into his mouth.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025

She ducked a twig I threw at her, then got serious.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

I found myself surprisingly moved by the meditative activities and programming, even if it felt silly at first to be constructing a mandala with leaves and twigs in the middle of a workweek.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

Other acts include Major Lazer, indie-pop band Foster the People and British singer, dancer, and visual artist FKA twigs.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

All of the carbon in the trees and twigs the machine ingests ends up in the ground — not back in the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

“I’m not sure if these are going to work,” Dari said as we put the finishing touches on S’meggs, sticking random twigs into jumbo-size marshmallows.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

Boris Johnson has 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

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

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 27, 2017

We probably should have twigged that something was wrong when the outboard motor on the dinghy failed on day one.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2016

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

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

The results of Archie's twigging were very apparent; notably the golden-oak rocking-chair, the "chiffoneer" surmounted by the bronze lady with a spear.

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

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 Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

He began at once, following the example of the birds about him, to prepare for the coming event; "twigging" as Joan called it to herself, amusedly.

From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

“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