How to Use in twos in a Sentence

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• Each morning, the guides would take guests out in twos to different parts of the lake.
  — David Treuer, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2023
• Brad set us up in twos: some pairs of men, some of women, others mixed.
  — Colton Haynes, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
• There were 15, most tangled in twos and threes underneath the seats.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• Also, a choir wearing pentagrams walked in twos to the stage and circled the home.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• More people started tricking in singly, or in twos and threes.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2022
• The players pair off in twos, and each person is given one pouch of 10 marbles.
  — Hahna Yoon, Wired, 13 Oct. 2021
• The piece is made up of 19 stark black-and-white silkscreen prints lined up in twos and threes, ascending a gleaming white canvas.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
• John and Howard have examined the pairings on the worksheets and have called actors in at staggered times in twos and threes.
  — Mark Harris, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2022
• Most were women, standing and shivering in twos and threes, some passing around heat packs to keep warm.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• Everyone gasped and applauded when the flock first appeared on the purple horizon line, materializing in twos and threes, then tens of hundreds, around the slender brick tree of the chimney.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The fire apocalypse/pandemic experience has experts worried that future emergencies may come more often in twos and threes.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• As is everyone else: Her entourage has preceded her arrival by a few minutes, trickling in in twos and threes, until there are 12 of us waiting to be seated for a seven-person reservation that was supposed to begin an hour ago.
  — Melinda Fakuade, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2022
• Sanitation employees often work in twos and our training emphasizes that partnership is a foundational principle in the department.
  — Thomas Prior, Curbed, 29 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024