Sentence examples for collecting twigs from inspiring English sources

My children's love of collecting twigs, stones and other "treasure" results in random piles appearing around the garden.

The older penguins soon became bored — breeding season was nearing, and they got busy collecting twigs for their nests — but nine youngsters, which were raised in the zoo, were still going strong.

Birds are generally pretty lazy animals that don't have time to bother with collecting twigs and other objects.

When she was allowed to walk in the garden, she collected twigs and leaves, and started producing collages.

The tassel-eared squirrel, which hoards twigs of ponderosa pines for winter food, prefers to collect twigs low in α-pinene (a monoterpene).

"When prehistoric man was looking for a mate, he'd collect twigs, rocks, shells — whatever was on the ground — he'd put a hole in it, he'd put it on a string and he'd cross mountains in search of a mate," said the jewelry historian Joyce Jonas.

On daily outings, he collected twigs, leaves, branches and related ecological materials in order to chart events, the weather, and his emotional state.

If you don't have trees in your yard, you can collect twigs from a friend's house.

But if we didn't watch it closely, the water would quickly evaporate or collect bees, twigs, and soil.

Go for a walk and collect some twigs.

Examples of items you can collect are twigs, dead branches, dry bark or grass, pine needles, pocket lint, and paper.