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'twas

[ twuhz, twoz; unstressed twuhz ]

  1. contraction of it was.


'twas

/ twɒz; twəz /

contraction of

  1. it was
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Twas little respect they ever had for myself, and always said that I was only fit to be used for sausages, anyway.

Certainely!And from this prison twas the sonnes requestThat his deare father might interment haue.

Twas inevitable that they should pry and surmise––surmising much more than they dared pry.

Twas her way: thus in a flash to pass from nay to yea without mistrust or lingering.

Twas fallen into dusk: the hills were turning shapeless in the night, the glow all fled from the sky, the sea gone black.

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