Sentence examples for straight twigs from inspiring English sources

The Haitian boy's kite starts with thin sticks — woody reeds or straight twigs scraped smooth with a razor blade and cut to equal length, about eight inches.

On these islands, as its name attests, the hard, straight twigs once made enviable spindles; and with another use came another archaic name, the skewerwood tree.

Find straight twigs or sticks for arrows.

A clean, straight twig is also fairly realistic!

You want to use straight, bendable green twigs that are 1/2 an inch (1.27 cm) to 1 inch (2.54 cm) in diameter from soft wooded trees when designing branch chairs.

'He [respiratory specialist] twigged straight away that I can't just have asthma.

For instance, the shapes of the tracks drawn by the resultant contact force included a circle, ellipse, irregular oval, leaf, twig, and straight line.

The ideal twig is straight, smooth, and round so it makes a perfectly shaped whistle.

"Fight School Violence, Pinpoint Its Victims". Time Magazine, October 2010.. "Crooks Take Early Retirement: Twigs Bent, Trees go Straight". Harvard Magazine, March 2004.

Presumably, this is helpful for tool use, since straight beaks make it easier to manipulate twigs than the more common curved ones.

In one hut I met Habo Gidagurja, bent over a large flat rock in her twig and mud hut – doing something straight from the Stone Age.