The vehicles, containing mostly women and children, were preceded or followed by men on horseback, by twos and threes, and sometimes by the dozen.
They would walk about the beach in twos and threes--making love, most likely, and settling future family arrangements.
The fuses were of different lengths, and as the shells exploded by twos and threes, and by the dozen, the pyrotechnic effect was very fine.
They all overstayed their time, and we only got them back by twos and threes.
If your vehicle has more than one seat there will be three or four horses to haul it, driven "spike" in the former case, by twos in the latter.
As soon as we topped the swell of the ground, we saw the enemy bolting in twos and threes from the nearest sangar, now about two hundred yards off, and presently there came a rush right across our front.
The enemy, after receiving some well-directed volleys and correctly played shells, were seen to vacate 'A' sangar by twos and threes until it was finally emptied.
The small boys, who had looked on, departed by twos and threes.
By twos and threes, and then in larger groups, they followed him until the very last man of them was safe inside, and the door was slammed shut and locked in the faces of the foe.
Elvira was sitting in a very disconsolate attitude on the guitar-box; she had watched the company dispersing by twosand threes, and the prolonged spectacle had somewhat overwhelmed her spirits.
The players relaxed their rigid attitudes, and began to rise from the table and stroll back by twos and threes into the smoking-room.
They stood in droves, in the sheltered entrances of the halls, and occasionally darted out by ones and twos and threes to rescue distressed co-eds.
The birds took to their wings by twos and threes, so that it was not until more than a minute after the firing of the gun that all of them were in the air.
They then drop to the ground in twos and threes, so that, although the birds begin to return almost as soon as they have fled into the foliage, some little time elapses before the whole of the flock is again seeking food on the ground.
Hundreds of thousands of eyes would look on it but there are few people who come to look at it--just ones and twos who stand diminutively in front of the great ruins and peer at them like the conventional figures in an old print.
A roll used to be kept there of the visitors who came in their hundreds after the Crimean war was over, dwindling to a score a year and then to less than ten, and then to twos and threes and ones.
One reason for the permanence of the blaze was now manifest: the fuel consisted of hard pieces of wood, cleft and sawn--the knotty boles of old thorn trees which grew in twos and threes about the hillsides.
Divide the 30 other pairs into twos = put up a pin between every set of two pairs = linen passing.
Divide the white threads into twos and make single chains with them, the whole length of the fringe; the thread must be changed 8 times for each chain; then pass the right chain under the left one and join them by a flat double knot.
No sign of Betty; only men in uniform grouped in twos and threes behind the counter.
The men in uniform still stood in twos and threes.
When the bombardment began the enemy could be seen along the crest opposite the front line in twos and threes (total about 150).
They came by twos and threes, and I toted chairs and camp stools from the house the three long blocks to the grove.
And then they began leaving, by twos and threes, and the telephone girl was one of the last to go, lingeringly.
Bunched together in twos and threes, the enemy offered an easy mark, and with a callousness born of long privations we dropped at least fifteen or twenty men in very few minutes.
The twos and threes look at a picture in the Art Museum for less than ten minutes--unless they chance to be art students, critics, or connoisseurs.
I believe that when the moon rose the men saw they had nothing to fear, and, by twos and threes and half-troops, crept back into Cantonments very much ashamed of themselves.
The brutes assembled intwos and threes and drove me frantic.
Then we watched for the soldiers, and after three days they went by again, by twos and twos as before.
There were no indications that the column was traversing an inhabited country, except the bodies which hung by twos and threes from branch and signpost, and the gaunt swine who by the roadside were holding their loathsome carnival.
By twos and threes, in various disguises, and on divers pretexts, they found their way to every native regiment in the three Presidencies.
I shouted but got no reply, but in twos and threes they collected near the pier, and rushed along to the side of the boat.
Then more arrivals keep dropping in by twos and threes, neighbouring settlers and chums of ours.
Sometimes they come by twosand threes, and sometimes they come in swarms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
