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Sentence Examples Some rabbit babies get dirty in a mud puddle but the day is saved when Tag finds a cleansing spring of water by divining with a hazel twig. The Siberian flying squirrel is a nocturnal arboreal rodent that nests in tree cavities, twig dreys, and nest-boxes. This may look like a shapeless blob stuck to a twig, but it's actually a nocturnal mouse lemur. Approaching the bird, anger turned to curiosity at seeming small green leaves sprouting from a slender twig. She is most certainly eye level with me, but more slenderly built, but not a twig. As always, the rule is to twig where the natives are munching, stalk the local well-fed and you'll never go far wrong. Twigs were snapped off trees and one twig broke free from its limb and and flew straight at Spot and took his eye right out. Snap the asparagus at its natural breaking point, by holding the spear in both hands and snapping like a twig. Make a bamboo or twig tepee for your kids, and cover it with an annual vine such as scarlet runner bean. As the infection progresses, trees undergo twig and branch dieback and develop stem cankers, which results in tree-death. Nothing penetrated the silence except for the occasional crack of a twig or the rustle of leaves. The peach twig borer, Anarsia lineatella, is another key pest damaging shoots and fruits of almonds and stone fruits. Yuki laughed and walked over to pick the twig from Keiko's long raven black and pink streaked hair. He grabbed a twig from the kindling stacked near his pallet and moved to kneel in the doorway. My son caught it by knocking it off the car with a twig, then coaxing it on to a piece of card, and then putting it in a jam jar. At peak abundance, cockchafers reached densities of more than 50 individuals per meter of twig on some fruit trees and on shrubs. She only told Arthur, but didn't twig that her new fancy man is a journalist. You tell Danny that if he so much as lays a finger on you, I'll snap him in half like a twig. She was aware of every small noise around her, from the smallest twig snapping underfoot to the cries of foreign birds. Two or more years are required for gall wasps that develop in woody twig galls to reach maturity. Show More Sentences It was observed in all twig tissues analysed apical to the girdle, including the bark. Longhorned beetles known as twig girdlers are now laying eggs in the small branches of many hardwood trees. In most cases, squirrels and twig girdlers do not pose serious harm to your trees. Activity and habits of the twig girdler in Alabama have been noted and recorded periodically over several years. The twig girdler is a long-horned, wood-boring beetle that lives in many hardwoods in Florida but does not cause serious damage. There is neither any chopped parsley on the plate's rim nor a twig of rosemary speared into the food for effect. Several lines of evidence suggest that twig anoles rely more on stealth than speed to capture prey and evade predators. The profiler is about the equivalent of somebody who divines jackal tracks with a broken twig. I'm in early middle age, so it's not a complete surprise that this is also the time when one's parents are apt to hop the twig. Jeff showed the twins how to weave the twig wattle fence that borders the deck. Mr. Erickson-Moore stood behind me and wrenched the leaf-pole from my weak grip, breaking it in half over his knee as though it were a mere twig. It either spins a silken web to fasten the pupa on a firm base or a silken girdle to support the pupa from a stem or a twig. Instead, we slowly creep along, jumping each time a twig cracks beneath us. It was the best Frankie Howerd impersonation I've seen since the man himself hopped the twig. To go west means to hop the twig, pop one's clog, hand in one's dinner pail, and so on. The lattice, with its entwined flowering twig pattern, was finished in pink, bronze, and green by brushing on copper-based colorants. I looked up and saw one of the small squirrels running down the length of a limb with a twig of leaves in his mouth. Dressed in a simple loincloth, first the men shower with cold water, then clean their teeth with a small twig from the neem tree. The bag is firmly attached by a sturdy silk band which the bagworms usually wrap around a twig. When fully grown, the bagworm fastens its covering to a twig and pupates within it. Show More Sentences Dispersal of bagworms depends on the hatchlings getting out on a twig and letting out a long strand of silk. He picked up a twig from the ground and scraped the dirt off his boots before stepping into a small scullery and calling out. Evading the first blow, Trachoma struck out, barehanded, seizing his adversary's wrist and snapping it like a dry twig. For instance, detailed study of the DNA of the barnacle goose has located its origin on a twig of the Canada goose's family tree. She broke a twig from a nearby tree and began poking it into the soft ground in a desperate effort to busy herself. Mac snapped a small twig from a tree branch and began slowly wandering around the clearing, twisting the stick in his fingers. This small twig arises from the thoracic aorta near the right intercostobronchial artery. On the left side of this specimen, this twig arose as a branch of the vertebral artery, the inferior thyroid artery being absent. The vascular cambium is a cylindrical region running through the entire stem of the plant, and branching into every twig and limb. The figure is that of a bird caught by alighting upon a twig smeared with the sticky substance called birdlime. Approved for use on stone fruits and almonds to control brown rot, blossom and twig blight, and fruit brown rot. On the left side, a sinuous twig curves from the stem base around the back of the bowl. A twig cracked loudly underfoot and he froze into immobility. He winced when a twig snapped with a loud crack beneath his foot. It was still beautiful, brushed in white with ice crystals wrapping themselves around every branch and twig, but the vineyards and resorts I'd known were gone of course. A symphony of Beethoven is like a tree, with the sturdiness of trunk instantly with and explained by the lightsomeness and changingness of branch, twig, leaf. She quickly decided that the petioles, the little stems that connect a leaf blade to a twig, looked most promising as a source of unspecialized tissue. Finish your weekend in busy Dam Square, in front of the Royal Palace, where you can watch the street cleaners sweep the cobblestones with wicked-witch twig brooms. Then she too heard it, the snapping of a twig, and the whispers of voices. As they lay there, another crack of a twig came from across the cave. Show More Sentences Giggling nervously, one girl lit a match and set a twig on fire. She screamed, wrenching a sizable twig out of her hair and hurling it at him, after disentangling herself from what must have been the twentieth or so bramble thicket. My foot encountered a twig, and it snapped loudly in my hearing, causing a flock of black creatures that had been roosting in a neighboring tree to take wing. When my time comes I will hop the twig a happy man, in the knowledge that during my lifetime I have been instrumental in the planting of thousands of trees. Suddenly, off to her right, she heard a twig snap with a sharp report. Then came a small snap, sounding like someone stepped on a twig. As far as I can tell, the general thinks highly of Lord Geoffrey socially, and I know he worries that I'll be left all alone when he hops the twig, as he puts it. I'm a donor, and my wishes won't be overruled if I hop the twig. His rough, honey-colored wood squares suit the twig and swirl shapes on Olsen's bowls and platters. From a tree which bears fruit they cut a twig, and divide it into two small pieces. After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem. It always sends ripples in every direction, in a concentric washing of every floating leaf, twig, and waterbug. Few perhaps could distinguish a twig or a frond from a jam jar of frogspawn. These included such hardy species as red chokeberry, buttonbush, spicebush and red twig dogwood. Children will carry kits containing a Rubick's cube, a miswaq twig, a stress ball, nicotine gums and an awareness booklet. Kilham said that the twig tasted like spearmint and reminded him of the compound methyl salicylate, which is used in muscles to relieve pain. The final piece of the little shrieker is another piece of twig to slip into the business end of the whistle. They are each grown vegetatively from a bud or twig from a specific parent. His nose starts squirting blood right before I kick him square in the twig and giggle berries. Examples from Classical Literature Is this due to any special faculty in the dowser, or has the twig itself anything to do with it? But directly that he came to the spots the dowser had found the twig showed vigorous signs of animation. The dunnock usually begins towards sunset, first mounting to the loftiest twig it can discover that will bear its weight. It was no more an essay than a twig is a tree, for the gowk had stuck in the middle of his second page. The house wren will carry a twig three inches long through a hole of half that diameter. At midnight I dreamt that a cedar twig was thrown into the room as a token bestowed by the Inari god. In those days it was the custom for the person who wished to be favoured by the Inari god to crown his head with a twig of cedar. Ingmar Ingmarson had just stooped down and cut off a birch twig, when the wind came tearing along laden with snow. The innervation was found in only one leg, in which the twig arises more distally than in T. pallidicinctus. With his jackknife he cleaned the fish as best he could, and then broiled it on a green twig. The locust has also been attacked by the twig borer, bag worm and the leaf miner. The stipules are always free from the leafstalk and attached to the twig at small spots just below the leafstalk. As soon as the hoopoe sees the worms it darts upon them, and thus makes the lime twig fall upon itself, which embarrasses it. Fine fowlers they are, for every finger of theirs is a lime twig with which they catch dotterels. Abe's action followed that of the twig, in Teh suddenness of his upspringing. Children who suffer from fits are branded with a twig of margosa or with a glass bangle. Through the wicker-work of the raised side or back a strong t-shaped twig is fixed, one end of which rests on the finger. At first they could not break it, but when they took it twig by twig they broke it easily. Each picker then draws a twig, and his standing is decided by the number upon it. In front of each person she put two geranium leaf plates, a pine needle fork and a twig knife. Show More Sentences The fields and hedgerows were rheumy with moisture which dripped from every bent and twig. In the case of the lac insect, for example, the female resembles a little hemispherical scale on the twig of a tree. Hauser91 found an aneurismal dilatation of an atheromatous and thrombosed arterial twig in the floor of a recent ulcer. The roll of a pebble or the crack of a twig under foot would set us all atingle as we stole out to our cave house. A lateral bud is one situated on the side of a twig in the axil of a leaf-scar. The knowing Kids and dashing Swells are for a drap of blue ruin, to keep all things in good twig. I wonder that, when the twig is so ruthlessly and persistently bent, the tree should reach up ever so crookedly towards heaven. He carried a twig which he used as a riding crop, slapping his boots as he walked. He carries a fishing pole made from a tree twig and equipped with a thread knotted frequently and a bent pin for hook. The sound of a crackled twig off to the right had come to their ears, and it was a sound that carried the quality of furtiveness. Close on our right a twig snapped and I began to gather myself for the spring. The painter would not depict every twig, as would the naturalist. Mr Gould describes one he saw perched on a twig, pluming its feathers. The snapping of a twig sounded like the crashing ruin of a forest giant. Is there always a bud in the axil where the leaf stalk joins the twig? Suddenly a twig crackled and they sprang to their feet and seized their weapons. Tantor, who can uproot great trees, trembles with fear at the sound of a broken twig. It matters not much what part of the bough the twig growes out of. Betty was as incapable of flight as any bird on a limed twig. Over the dam it lay in a quiet pool, mirroring every bud and twig. Show More Sentences Was it his imagination, or did a branch snap, a twig rustle down the road? It was a forked twig, one end of which was grasped firmly in each hand, while the center, forming the stem, pointed perpendicularly upward. The shape of every branch and twig is expressed in a deep red glow, and as the light wind stirs and ruffles it, they seem to vegetate in fire. What does the nightingale care for a golden cage when he can get a twig? In the buckthorns the fruit hangs directly from the twig rather than in clusters like those of chokecherry, another unmistakable difference. But just at this moment Robin unluckily trod upon a twig which snapped and caused the tanner to turn suddenly. Upon this twig is loosely wound from end to end the weft thread. Not a sound disturbed the oppressive quiet, not the quiver of a twig. So I concluded that the cunning varments had seen the twig bent, and had torn the rest, to make us believe a buck had been feeling the boughs with his antlers. He was very strong and clever with his knife and knew how to cut the dry and dead wood away, and could tell when an unpromising bough or twig had still green life in it. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of twig? Words that rhyme with twig What is the past tense of twig? What is the plural of twig? What is the adverb for twig? What is the adjective for twig? What is the noun for twig? Translations for twig Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words twiddly twiddling twiddled twiddle Twickenham twice-weekly twigged twigging twiggy twiglike twigs twilight 4-letter Words Starting With t tw twi