1
: a small shoot or branch usually without its leaves
2
: a minute branch of a nerve or artery
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Examples of twig in a Sentence
Verb
He seemed confused until he twigged that something was going on.
I had to explain it to him three times but he finally twigged.
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Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
Of course, twigs’s LBD wasn’t the only one featured in the ’20s-meets-cycling portion of the evening.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 24 June 2024
Rebecca Cope, Vogue, 26 June 2024
Altman, meanwhile, twigged that Microsoft might be the deep-pocketed backer OpenAI needed to achieve its goals.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 May 2024
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Noun
Inside were stone benches and mats made from tamarisk twigs, an altar and a heap of cowrie shells apparently once strung up in a curtain across the door.
—Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
Of course, twigs’s LBD wasn’t the only one featured in the ’20s-meets-cycling portion of the evening.
—Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 24 June 2024
Verb
Despite finding themselves in the exact same spot in the hotel gardens, Harris didn’t twig that something was afoot.
—Rebecca Cope, Vogue, 26 June 2024
Altman, meanwhile, twigged that Microsoft might be the deep-pocketed backer OpenAI needed to achieve its goals.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 May 2024
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“Twig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twig. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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twig
noun
: a minute branch of a nerve or artery
twigs of sensory nerves in the skin—Lynda Charters
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