“Around its twiglike ankle he fixed an aluminum band imprinted with letters and numbers, which he copied into a giant book.”
“Subcylindrical forms such as Stachyodes and Amphipora have been called dendroid or twiglike, and aluacerids have been called subcylindrical, cylindrical, or columnar.”
“This illusion is broken with the first crunch of gratis grissini — the salty, twiglike bread sticks, served in a paper cone, are as abundant as they are addictive.”