Sentence examples for on a twig from inspiring English sources

One day, the nymph climbs up on a twig and splits open, and an adult dragonfly called a teneral emerges.

The spider then descends from the centre of the bridge, securing a thread on the ground or on a twig.

The frogs normally lay a mass of 40 or so eggs on a twig or leaf over a freshwater pond.

I can imagine the tiny changes in lichen on a rock, droplets on a branch, buds on a twig.

Slim, elegant, thoughtful and kind, she was economical with words, which she used precisely, alighting on exactly the word she wanted like a discriminating bird on a twig.

He picked it up, took aim at a small bird sitting on a twig a hundred yards away, judiciously pressed the trigger, and the bird fell dead.

Perched like a butterfly on the tip of a twig, Burroughs Wood extends in two vaguely triangular sections from the dead end of a country lane.

He's not so small and cute anymore...".. Tacia Carlin: "Picture taken with a pinhole effect, looking through a box". Graeme Gunn: "A dragonfly perching on the edge of a twig.

Scully cuts her hand on the thorn of a twig left in her car.

Make the cut directly above a lateral bud, which is a bud that forms on the side of a twig or branch, rather than haphazardly in a mid-section of the branch or twig.

Maybe birds are particularly unsuspecting against bait sitting on a twig-like wire structure.