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'twas
[ twuhz, twoz; unstressed twuhz ]
- contraction of it was.
'twas
/ twɒz; twəz /
contraction of
- it was
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Usage Note
See contraction.
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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.
From Project Gutenberg
Certainely!And from this prison twas the sonnes requestThat his deare father might interment haue.
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Twas inevitable that they should pry and surmise––surmising much more than they dared pry.
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Twas her way: thus in a flash to pass from nay to yea without mistrust or lingering.
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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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