Read full poem →I let my neighbors pass me, ones and twos
And groups; the latest said the night grew chill,
Dictionary Entry
The digit/figure 2.
In a Sentence
“The number 2202 contains three twos.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. twoscomplement twostwos terribletwos twotwos number
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Poetry examples for “twos”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And each accoutred with a curse,
The friends of Old King Cole, by twos,
And fours, and sevens, and elevens,
Read full poem →From every point of the compass out of the countless graves,
In wafted clouds, in myriads large, or squads of twos or threes or
single ones they come,
Read full poem →In one, by twos and threes, young people,
Hundreds concentering, walk’d the paths and streets and roads,
Read full poem →(Ever the heroes, on water or on land, by ones or twos appearing,
Ever the stock preserv’d, and never lost, though rare—enough for seed preserv’d.)