'twas
Americancontraction
Usage
See contraction.
Example Sentences
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A male voice in the cast parried with a hint of old-world courtliness: “Yet ’twas well sung, my friend!”
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023
But men have it differently; 'twas ever thus.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2022
But she said, “I misunderstood; ’twas not romantic lore: The word, she spoke was fourrier, defined as “comes before.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2018
Photograph: Manuel Harlan/Sheffield Theatre Company The first eight years of my teaching career was spent in inner city schools and "oh, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear."
From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2013
As ’twas, he could neither affirm nor deny her account of her childhood.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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