How to Use two in a Sentence

two

noun

• It was two in the morning.
• For instance, the first time is by twos, then by threes, then by fours.
  — Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2020
• The twos were running with a walk-on at center and a walk-on at left guard.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Apr. 2018
• The group ran the court for an hour, playing games to 13 by twos and threes.
  — Bruce Schoenfeld, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2016
• The stars come in twos and the championships come in bakers’ dozens.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• To me, season twos are where everything opens up.
  — Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
• For the most part, people sat in twos or threes with ample grassy space between them.
  — Anna Bauman, SFChronicle.com, 4 May 2020
• Flagrant One fouls are worth one point, while flagrant twos are worth two points.
  — Sam Amick, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2018
• The first week was Joe getting most of the twos and Sam mixing in.
  — Cal Phillips june 10, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 June 2026
• With ones and twos, shots from behind the arc are now 100% more valuable.
  — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 24 July 2019
• The players are shooting threes (3-point shots), but the fans are talking twos.
  — Fred Bowen, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2019
• Are those threes and twos and fours good rebounders and physical?
  — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• The guard-heavy Roos knocked down 11 three-pointers and 10 twos.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 19 Jan. 2018
• Nearby, a few children were skipping rocks, and people sat on the beach in twos and threes.
  — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2017
• The mini-burgers are sold singly, in twos and threes, or in 16-pack boxes.
  — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2018
• The night before the fence was erected, young men stood in the parking lot in clusters of twos and threes.
  — Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2019
• Almost everything you are supposed to do with children is set up in twos and fours.
  — Robin Marty, Cosmopolitan, 11 Sep. 2017
• The talent came in twos for a pair of beloved Hollywood couples.
  — Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
• Lots of long twos and three-pointers, and the Razorbacks also have three turnovers.
  — Scottie Bordelon, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2023
• The menswear, which will be introduced in the fall, will start with underwear that will be sold in packs of twos or threes.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 3 Feb. 2026
• If the 3x3 Olympics games were played with twos and threes, that would also be acceptable.
  — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 24 July 2019
• Now teams occasionally attempt more threes than twos, and the earth doesn’t spin off its axis.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2018
• Older women in twos and threes strolled along, pulling through the racks, pausing here and there to tug at a waistband, check a price, buy a pair.
  — Neil Shea, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• Barrington tied the game with twos outs in the top of the seventh on a two-run single by Rachel Krzysko.
  — Tony Baranek, Daily Southtown, 10 June 2017
• In everyday life, groups of twos and threes can seem inconsequential.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• For the verbally inclined, that’s a chiliad (one thousand) of twos squared.
  — Adrienne Bernhard, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023
• The boys pair up in twos, with the older, experienced boys leading the younger ones through the entire cemetery.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, Post-Tribune, 25 May 2018
• Now and then, in twos and threes, partygoers slipped in and out of a side door leading to a carport that emitted drifting whiffs of smoke.
  — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 18 Apr. 2018
• That’s challenging because the Asian community, as a whole, doesn't dine out in twos.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2020
• Instead of two- and three-pointers, there are ones and twos, making outside shooters extra valuable.
  — Zach Helfand, latimes.com, 30 June 2017