1
: a small shoot or branch usually without its leaves
2
: a minute branch of a nerve or artery
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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Lindsey McGinnis, Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2025
Red twig dogwood likes consistently moist areas so it should be watered during dry spells.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 10 June 2025
Mitchell Newberry, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025
Which twigged Kotb to the fact that there’s most likely a secret date already on the books.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 July 2024
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Noun
High up in a tree, a man with a sickle is harvesting sap from a sugar palm, and a few feet off the path, a pair of brown Horsfield’s babbler chicks huddle in a low twig cup, safe from harm.
—Lindsey McGinnis, Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2025
Red twig dogwood likes consistently moist areas so it should be watered during dry spells.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 10 June 2025
Verb
Scale invariance occurs in trees because trunks, limbs and twigs all branch in similar ways and for similar reasons.
—Mitchell Newberry, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025
Which twigged Kotb to the fact that there’s most likely a secret date already on the books.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 July 2024
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“Twig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twig. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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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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