How to Use conjoined in a Sentence

conjoined

adjective
  • Their brand name now applies to every pair of conjoined twins.
    — Yunte Huang, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Jaron was tall and thin, with conjoined eyebrows, his usual mien the dazed air of someone just getting off a long flight.
    — Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Their condition, called craniopagus, is the least common type of conjoined twins.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 15 June 2017
  • Who was the first doctor to successfully separate conjoined twins at the head?
    — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Contemporary artists have also nodded to arches in their conjoined address of past and present.
    — Tyler Green, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
  • In the distant reaches of the solar system are many icy objects that resemble snowmen — pairs of conjoined spheres.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Imagery of horses and humanoid figures predominates, many of them fusing and conjoined.
    — Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 18 June 2026
  • 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
  • Flowers was a physician from Pine Bluff and the first doctor in the country to successfully deliver a set of conjoined twins.
    — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 2 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • While the odds of naturally conceiving identical triplets are low, so are delivering conjoined siblings.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • In 1987, Carson became the first surgeon to separate a pair of conjoined twins successfully.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2025
  • 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 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
  • The conjoined twins were photographed running errands with their family dog and Abby's husband, Josh Bowling, as seen in photos first published by TMZ.
    — Kayla Grant, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The couple recently came under much media scrutiny when Abby and her conjoined twin sister, Brittany, both 35, were spotted carrying a newborn baby while running errands last month.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The Bone Museum in Brooklyn presents skeletal insights using actual skeletons, including showing how corsets severely compress bones, and an examination of the anatomy of conjoined twins.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The conjoined twins, originally born in Mexico, have defied odds through the years and have lived far past doctors' expectations, PEOPLE previously reported.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025

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