“The father was scrawny, a twiggy man who seemed rather frail, as if a strong wind could have snapped his bones.”

“A pair has made a scrappy, twiggy nest around six metres from the ground in one of Williams' pine trees.”

“She had a sudden image of herself, unkempt and twiggy, with a long beard and goatskin clothes, chasing lizards.”

“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.”