in twos and threes in a sentence
Examples
- The papers were grouped for reading in twos and threes under headings ranging from the straightforward, e . g.
- They slip into restaurants and stores in twos and threes, pestering patrons and angering owners with their persistent pitch.
- Many regular polytopes, at least in two and three dimensions, exist in nature and have been known since prehistory.
- Word had gotten around school about the party, and our Drake classmates were arriving in twos and threes and fours.
- They were ordered to destroy their equipment, and make their way home in twos and threes as best they could.
- When everyone else seems to be indulging in two and three desserts from the buffet table, it's hard to be abstemious.
- But in the past, trees were mainly stolen in twos and threes by people who'd replant them in their back yards.
- He whistled and stomped inside the shelter, and more than 100 pigeons flooded into the front cage in twos and threes.
- Residents of Altar said the downtrodden strangers began passing through their town a few years ago, arriving in twos and threes.
- Suddenly there they were, fluttering up and down in twos and threes and then in dozens, knotting and unknotting as they mated.