TWIN in a Sentence

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83 example sentences for TWIN, such as:

1. The twins sleep in a bunk bed.
2. The twins are now eight months old.
3. Charity was a mirror image of her twin.
4. My twin sister and I have got the same nose.
5. I always confounded him with his twin brother.

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 Meanings and Examples of TWIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
twin
 v.  bring two objects, ideas, or people together
 n.  a waterfall in the Snake River in southern Idaho
Classic Sentence: (67 in 5 pages)
1  And here in this new country, safe from the twin perils of the land he had left--taxation that ate up crops and barns and the ever-present threat of sudden confiscation--he intended to have them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  These twin lines of somber trees were his, his the abandoned lawn, waist high in weeds under white-starred young magnolia trees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Through the window Scarlett could see the bright riot of the twin lanes of daffodils bordering the graveled driveway and the golden masses of yellow jessamine spreading flowery sprangles modestly to the earth like crinolines.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  With those precious twin lines of iron in danger, the Confederates left their desperately defended rifle pits and, under the starlight, made a forced march to Resaca by the short, direct road.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Feet swished and scraped and patted as the twin lines danced toward each other, retreated, whirled and made arches of their arms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  There was something in their depths she did not recognize, could not understand, something deeper than anger, stronger than pain, something driving him until his eyes glowed redly like twin coals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
7  Two black braids fell on either side of her face and her closed eyes were sunken in twin purple circles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
8  The city of Gopher Prairie welcomes her to our midst and prophesies for her many happy years in the energetic city of the twin lakes and the future.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  Queequeg was my own inseparable twin brother; nor could I any way get rid of the dangerous liabilities which the hempen bond entailed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
10  When father died, he left the whole property to us twin boys, to be divided as we should agree.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  No sight could be more singular and beautiful than that of these twin brothers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  She held my hand impersonally, as a promise that she'd take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses who stopped at the foot of the steps.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  He turned his eyes on Mr. Jaggers whenever he raised them from the table, and was as dry and distant to me as if there were twin Wemmicks, and this was the wrong one.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVIII
14  From my point of view, he was the wrong twin all the time, and only externally like the Wemmick of Walworth.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVIII
15  Mrs. Micawber shook her head, and dropped a pious tear upon the twin who happened to be in hand.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  You can avoid the single supplement by agreeing to share a twin room.
2  Both the twin brothers were born and bred in London.
3  You're always mixing me up with my twin brother.
4  Charity was a mirror image of her twin.
5  She costarred with her twin sister in a new film.
6  My twin sister and I have got the same nose.
7  I always confounded him with his twin brother.
8  Angela's twin girls Ava and Amelie were born five weeks premature and had to be resuscitated with oxygen.
9  Each person's genetic code is unique except in the case of identical twins.
10  The twins are now eight months old.
11  A special closeness is supposed to exist between twins.
12  The birth of twins put pressure on them to find a bigger flat.
13  The twins sleep in a bunk bed.
14  The doctors need to preserve and re-route those veins or both twins risk suffering a stroke.
15  The twins resembled one another closely; only minute differences set them apart.