How to Use conjoined in a Sentence

conjoined

adjective
  • Twins are rare for porpoises and cetaceans—and conjoined twins are even more rare.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
  • Twins are rare for porpoises and cetaceans—and conjoined twins are even more rare.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 15 June 2017
  • Their brand name now applies to every pair of conjoined twins.
    Yunte Huang, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Man and puppet look a bit like conjoined twins, with the rosy-cheeked Hildreth dressed in a matching white snowsuit complete with a jaunty Nordic hat.
    Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The end of the boom—the fuel nozzle—latches into a small hole in the receiving aircraft, and the fuel pumps as the conjoined aircraft fly in harmony.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
  • Who was the first doctor to successfully separate conjoined twins at the head?
    Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Their condition, called craniopagus, is the least common type of conjoined twins.
    Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 15 June 2017
  • In one of them, which measures close to 7 feet tall, one member of the couple appears to balance upside down atop the other, their heads and hands playfully and eerily conjoined.
    Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
  • In fact, in the opening sequence, she is faced with a Solomon-like dilemma, the case of conjoined twins who will both die if they are not separated, whereas if they are separated, one will survive and the other will die.
    Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The apartment had a curious setup, with the bedroom in one structure and the studio, irregularly shaped, a few steps up in what was a different but conjoined building.
    Jed Perl, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The cascade of horrors began with this lovely set of conjoined twins, with their creepy pet crows—an arrangement so Koons-like that the Falcones should feel no need to bake a welcoming batch of brownies when the Koons family does show.
    Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 31 Oct. 2014
  • Since childhood, Crespo’s body image has been that of a pair of conjoined twins, influenced by a reality-television show about two sisters, Abby and Brittany Hensel.
    The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2017
  • The conjoined senses often result in amazing memory recall.
    Maureen Seaberg, Glamour, 28 Feb. 2018
  • A team successfully separated 10-month-old conjoined twins during an 11-hour surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia said Tuesday.
    Fox News, 14 June 2017

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