How to Use twain in a Sentence

twain

noun
  • I like rap and my parents like country music, and never the twain shall meet in our house.
  • Nobody quite knew where the twain should meet.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Almost ne’er the twain did meet — though that could soon change.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2017
  • In beauty, there’s truth and trend — and rarely the twain shall meet.
    — Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Fruit is the opposite of cake, and never the twain shall mix.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Writing was writing, art was art, and never the twain should meet.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The twain have met, with disastrous results.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The twains of the have and have-nots, blacks and whites, privileged and oppressed still vow to never meet.
    — Dallas News, 2 June 2020
  • But the twain do meet at the island’s golf courses, tennis courts, sailing school and beaches.
    — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 16 May 2018
  • This side in one corner, that side in the other corner and never the twain will meet, much less talk civilly.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Wednesday — Odin’s Day — the halfway point of our work week, splitting it in twain.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The Victorian world was cleft in twain, with men on one side, and women on the other.
    — Hugh Ryan, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The Victorian world was cleft in twain, with men on one side, and women on the other.
    — Hugh Ryan, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Ultimately, there are phone people and then there are Note people, and never the twain shall meet.
    — David Pierce, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2018
  • Thankfully, Wednesday is only being split in twain.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Gravitational-wave detectors work (see diagram) by splitting a laser beam in twain.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Reuters/Will Dunham Few topics arouse the passions of Americans like god and government and whether the twain shall meet.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2020
  • But never the twain did meet until college became the country’s sole (respectable, reliable) pathway to economic advancement.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Harris, as the nation’s first vice president who is Black, as well as South Asian and female, will be under particular pressure to make the twain meet.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
  • But today, the Trondheim twain is working on dialing in their one-year intensive and immersive music program for artists, producers, and songwriters.
    — Amanda Peukert, SPIN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Apparently, this was that rare case of the twain meeting, as officers went to the woman’s address and soon gave a lost reveler a ride back to Bridgewater State University.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2019

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