twig
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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
Sometimes she’d switch so vigorously at nothing that the twig would break.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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
Bird nests, for example, rely on a network of interwoven twigs and fibers to maintain their structure.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 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
Kathleen would fill the holes with rolled-up newspaper or twigs but they would always be on the floor by the morning.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025
Crouched next to it, the bard and Gurgi fed twigs to the flames.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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
"Nobody should be watching those press conferences!" she said emphatically, when she twigged to what I'd been up to.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2020
In those instances I think they had twigged what was coming.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2018
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
If Pamela really is the culprit, the evidence was right in front of us, and nobody twigged to it.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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
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
You couldn't talk friendly to him without twigging that.
From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell
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
