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Sentence Examples
| There were fluted columns on either side of the broad mahogany double-doors, and they were twined with ivy. |
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| The voices of the cello and gamba twined around each other in a simple musical form. |
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| I didn't resist, both of us crushing the leaf until fragments fell and were scattered by the wind, her fingers twined in mine. |
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| The staff of Asclepias, which can be traced back to the magic wand of the early Egyptians and Moses, depicts a single serpent twined around it. |
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| The bevatron will strike far deeper into the atomic nucleus, where matter and energy lie closely twined together. |
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| And there they twined, in a true-love knot, The red, red rose and the briar. |
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| Clarissa twined a strand of her newly cut black hair around her finger nervously. |
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| The strands are the sections of the hair that are twined together to form a braid. |
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| Sometimes one yearns for the days when crime and showbiz were not as tightly twined as they are now. |
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| Margery's particular study has been of the finely twined decorative borders known as taniko, a technique which appears to be unique to the Maori. |
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| For An Appeal to Heaven, she illuminated a breadboard with a scene of a woman praying, her hands and shoulders twined with flowers and leaves. |
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| They are spun or twined in many ways to be used to tie a parcel, to tow or pull something, and to tie a ship to a dock. |
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| He twined his fingers round its rein, as it nuzzled his hands. |
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| A jump rope twined around a girl's leg describes the listlessness and boredom of a late summer day, as does a gangly teen lazily holding a baseball bat. |
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| Her dark hair should have been twined in a missish braid to keep it from tangling as she slept, and instead it spilled in dark silken handfuls over her shoulders. |
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| This soft bag is twined using fibres taken from the inner bark of basswood trees. |
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| The techniques and materials used to make twined soft bags have a wide distribution around the Great Lakes region. |
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| Protects against high temperatures, moderate friction. Ideal for twined conduction cable. |
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| Fine pieces of cotton thread being twined round each individual hair then pulled quickly apart, removing the hair along with it. |
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| Gourds and cotton were also grown, the gourds for use as containers and net floats, the cotton for twined fabric and cordage. |
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| But around the edge, Robins paints groups of seashells, twined around with lily of the valley and forget-me-not, rosebuds and vetch. |
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| The most simple type of twined textile consists of bags in which parallel warps of basswood fibre are held together by spaced wefts of twining using nettle or cotton threads. |
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| The same material could be shredded into finely divided flexible hanks, which were twined together to make a slip-on rain cape shaped like a truncated cone. |
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| Pomo basketry, considered by some to be the finest in California, was exceptionally well twined and intricately ornamented, using various woody materials, beads, and coloured feathers. |
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| And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| As he rose, ropy tentacles twined about him, and he saw what had saved him. |
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| This was at the entrance of woods of the evergreen oak, with hawthorn, many trees of each kind twined round with honeysuckle. |
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| The very melodies of Verdi and Rossini are inextricably twined in our minds around memories of ravioli and zabaglione. |
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| The result seen in Fig. 303 is obtained by impacting the horizontal or twined series of threads. |
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| Then Betushka, clasping her hands to her head, where the unspun flax was twined, burst into tears. |
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| He has twined his arms round her lissome figure, and is gazing anxiously into her eyes. |
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| As Eric struggled with the sleeves of his coat, she twined her arms round his neck. |
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| Fondly he twined his arms about the long, thin neck of Dexter, who tossed his head and knocked off the cowboy hat. |
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| She unclasped her hands, moved them slightly, and twined her fingers as before. |
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| What meant that long green mound stretching at my side, that broken shaft, twined with the cypress vine? |
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| The path, growing narrower, wound on circuitously through the woods, between slender serried trunks twined with ivy. |
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| His head was thrown back as if in defiance, and above it rose a single red feather twined in the scalp lock. |
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| He twined his fingers lovingly in the slack of Mr. Pilkington's coat. |
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| Henceforth may the lilies and the harp be ever twined together. |
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| It had the curves and indentations in it still, where it had been twined and bound. |
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| These have twined around her rustic brow a wreath of fadeless glory. |
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| Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head. |
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| Her brown, supple arms twined and untwined around her waist, like two scarfs. |
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| It was twined of Olympic olive leaves and Apollo's own laurel. |
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| The tarred ropes twined and intertwined like lichens and vines. |
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| Every inch of the rail, the body, even the spokes, all were twined with yellow and green and white. |
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| She raised them up, looked earnestly at them, twined them around her thin fingers, and looked from time to time, anxiously at her father. |
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| He twined himself up to her, as she half knelt by the settle, and converted her shoulder into a support. |
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| He had my head as in a vice, but I twined round him somehow, and stopped him for a moment, entreating him not to beat me. |
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| To tear out the weeds you would rend also the roots they twined among. |
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| When the pipe left me the creature's legs were twined about the bowl. |
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| It was eight-sided, having in each angle a slender pillar, round which silken draperies were twined. |
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| Over some of the porches paper vines were twined, giving them a cozy and shady look. |
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| Without speaking, without smiling, without seeming to recognise in me a human being, he only twined my waist with his arm and riveted me to his side. |
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| Pearl immediately twined it around her neck and waist with such happy skill, that, once seen there, it became a part of her, and it was difficult to imagine her without it. |
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| After awhile they saw her come again fresh from the bath, very fair to see, and having flowers twined among her hair, and as she walked she sang a song of love. |
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| Madame Defarge being sensitive to cold, was wrapped in fur, and had a quantity of bright shawl twined about her head, though not to the concealment of her large earrings. |
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