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UK
/twˈɪstɐ/
]
[ US /ˈtwɪstɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈtwɪstɝ/ ]
NOUN
- small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts
- a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
How To Use twister In A Sentence
- The wind and rain intensified as they watched the deadly twisters move towards them.
- There was widespread destruction on the island of Sant’ Elena, where an even larger disaster was narrowly averted by when the twister nearly struck a crowded vaporetto moored at a pontile. A Tornado in Venice
- With an average of one tornado every three years, it's the twister capital of the world.
- The most embarrassing moment to realize that there is a tongue-twister in the prayer is when you say it aloud for the first time in worship, and the whole congregation snickers.
- Tuscaloosa resident James Sykes told CNN the massive twister was "like a silent monster.
- Every day, he got up early and read tongue-twisters aloud to improve his diction and develop his facial muscles.
- 'She sells seashells on the seashore' is a well-known tongue twister.
- Tongue twisters always frustrate me because I cannot say them correctly.
- Haley Barbour, who was in Yazoo City where his home is located, called the twister "gigantic" and said that "in places [it] seemed to be to be several miles wide. WIBW - HomePage - Headlines
- 'She sells seashells on the seashore' is a well-known tongue twister.
