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Examples of twin in a Sentence
She's the mother of twins.
The twins went swimming after lunch.
My sister just had twins.
Sarah and her brother are twins.
Recent Examples of twin from the Web
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America, this is your ACM Awards.’’ The ACMs also marked an important night for Chris Stapleton, who missed the show because his wife, Morgane, gave birth to twins.
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Get our daily newsletter Thomas and Timothy Pearson, who are twins, hail from Iowa and have no previous connection to the University of Chicago.
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The brothers, who are fraternal twins, have already taken different paths in some repects.
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Shortly after the transplant, DeMayo became pregnant and gave birth to twins.
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Shortly after the transplant, DeMayo became pregnant and gave birth to twins.
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Her daughters are fraternal twins, one from the mosaic embryo.
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Book gave birth to twins two weeks before the 2017 session, her first in the Senate.
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Beyoncé gave birth to twins Rumi and Sir in July, so a family outing makes sense.
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Origin and Etymology of twin
First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1a
See Words from the same yeartwin Synonyms
Synonyms
alter ego, carbon, carbon copy, clone, counterpart, double, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, image, likeness, look-alike, match, mirror image, picture, replica, ringer, spit, spitting image;
Near Antonyms
Related Words
Definition of twin
- my twin brother
- twin girls
Examples of twin in a Sentence
the twin goals of reducing oil dependence and protecting the environment
Recent Examples of twin from the Web
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Nearby, the twin halves of a split fossil lay side by side, displaying a fish that now seemed to be perpetually swimming toward itself.
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Those twin developments -- coming hard on top of one another -- go a long way to disrupting the White House's preferred narrative that, contra to what the media reports, Trump has been super, super tough on Russia.
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The killing of Elena Rodriguez was felt deeply in the twin communities of Nogales, where about 20,000 people live on the Arizona side and about 300,000 in Mexico.
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The western state of Colima had a rate of 93.6 and Baja California Sur, home to the twin resort towns of Los Cabos, had a rate of 69.1, according to AP.
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This may have something to do with not having twin 38-year-olds, Thornton and Marleau, on the ice.
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My mug reminds me of my twin granddaughters’ fourth grade math book, that chapter on lines and rays and other geometric shapes.
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The system prompted Enbridge Energy to temporarily shutter twin oil and gas pipelines in Michigan that may have been recently damaged by a ship anchor strike.
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The museum’s latest exhibit puts names and faces to the heretofore nameless and faceless social forces that shape policy around downtown L.A.’s twin issues: relentless development and rampant homelessness.
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Origin and Etymology of twin
First Known Use: 1593
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearDefinition of twin
Recent Examples of twin from the Web
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Kylie Jenner’s new baby, Stormi Webster, is only two months old and the makeup mogul is already finding ways to twin with her little one.
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His ambition, twinned with desperation, resonates with any teenager who wants to journey off to college or move states away for work, in a bid to escape youthful boundaries.
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So far, by twinning their demands for better wages with calls for an increase in school funding, Oklahoma teachers have also managed to maintain the support of school superintendents and parents.
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Johnson has worked with other scientists who have shown how a mass spectrometer, a tool common on NASA robotic missions right now, could be twinned with algorithms designed to evaluate a molecule’s complexity, not just its weight.
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The film twins these moments of bleakness with the redemptive power of music and self-understanding.
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Before long, the couple was twinning in public, jetting off to the Cannes Film Festival, and schmoozing with West’s fashionable friends.
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Meghan was twinning with her future sister-in-law on stage as the foursome highlighted The Royal Foundation.
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Soon the street was alive with cool zephyrs that convected over the xeriscaped lawns and twined around the cacti and Little Free Libraries and the bare knees and ankles of the people of Lima Street.
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First Known Use of twin
14th century
TWIN Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of twin for English Language Learners
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: either one of two babies that are born at the same time to the same mother
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: either one of two similar things that form a pair
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Definition of twin for English Language Learners
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: to bring (two things) together in close association
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: to form a relationship between (two towns in two countries)
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Definition of twin for English Language Learners
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—used to describe children who are twins
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: made up of two similar things that are used together
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: forming one of a pair of related or connected ideas or places
TWIN Defined for Kids
Definition of twin for Students
- On the opposite side of the river is the city's twin.
Definition of twin for Students
- my twin brother
- a twin-engine airplane
- Her face was a pasty white with twin spots of rouge on the cheeks.
- —Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of twin
- a twin brother
- twin girls
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