How do you use the word "twin" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "twin": I'd like a twin with an extra bed. I can't tell one twin from the other.

Twin Meaning

/twɪn/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounEither of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.

nounEither of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.

Sentence Examples

I'd like a twin with an extra bed.

I can't tell one twin from the other.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

mate match couple

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

My brother is my ____, and we were born on the same day.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

My ____ brother and I look so much alike that even our own parents sometimes confuse us.

Word Origin & History

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twinne, twynne, from Old English ġetwin, ġetwinn (“twin, multiple”, noun) and twinn (“twin, two-fold, double, two by two”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *twinaz (“double/two each, twin”), Proto-Germanic *twinjaz, *twīhnaz (“two each”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwino- (“twin”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”). Cognate with Scots twyn (“twin”), Dutch tweeling (“twin”), German Zwilling (“twin”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish tvilling (“twin”), Faroese tvinnur (“a double set”), Icelandic tvenna (“duo, pair”), Lithuanian dvynys (“twin”), Russian двойня (dvojnja, “twin”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Still we moved / Together, twinned, as horse's ear and eye." — 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part 1”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

"Yet, Manet heightens its effect by performing the clever ocular trick of practically twinning her with her pictorial counterpart, Madame Lejosne." — 2006, Aruna D'Souza, Tom McDonough, Tom Mc Donough, The Invisible Flâneuse?: Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-century Paris, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 60:

"“I’ve run to tell ye,” said the junior shepherd, supporting his exhausted youthful frame against the doorpost, “that you must come directly. Two more ewes have twinned — that’s what’s the matter, Shepherd Oak.”" — 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:

"Twinning today is abnormal in all higher primates, and possibly adaptive only in the one species with an obstetrical technology that permits a high rate of survival of twins." — 1992, George Christopher Williams, Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges, Oxford University Press on Demand, →ISBN, page 79:

"The invert child and her innocent child are together lost children, twinning each other despite their distinctions." — 2009, Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 111:

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