How to Use in twos in a Sentence

in twos

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• More people started tricking in singly, or in twos and threes.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
• Each morning, the guides would take guests out in twos to different parts of the lake.
  — David Treuer, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2023
• There were 15, most tangled in twos and threes underneath the seats.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• Also, a choir wearing pentagrams walked in twos to the stage and circled the home.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• The players pair off in twos, and each person is given one pouch of 10 marbles.
  — Hahna Yoon, Wired, 13 Oct. 2021
• Most were women, standing and shivering in twos and threes, some passing around heat packs to keep warm.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• The piece is made up of 19 stark black-and-white silkscreen prints lined up in twos and threes, ascending a gleaming white canvas.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
• John and Howard have examined the pairings on the worksheets and have called actors in at staggered times in twos and threes.
  — Mark Harris, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2022
• The fire apocalypse/pandemic experience has experts worried that future emergencies may come more often in twos and threes.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• Everyone gasped and applauded when the flock first appeared on the purple horizon line, materializing in twos and threes, then tens of hundreds, around the slender brick tree of the chimney.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• Sanitation employees often work in twos and our training emphasizes that partnership is a foundational principle in the department.
  — Thomas Prior, Curbed, 29 Aug. 2022
• At the Collina Strada show, where founder and creative director Hillary Taymour often presents a playful but politically salient concept, models came out in twos.
  — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025