Examples of 'twixt' in a sentence

Meaning of "twixt"

twixt (adjective): An archaic term meaning 'between', often used in literary or poetic contexts to convey a sense of something being situated in the middle or with an ambiguous nature
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  • betwixt, between

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She lies twixt life and death.
Twixt in tournament play uses a swap rule.
This is a pledging twixt brother and brother.
Twixt such friends as we few words suffice.
Prièeska thanks twixt your child.
A slip twixt the tongue and wrist.
There is many a slip twixt cup and lip.
Gateway twixt distant east and west.
I did not have no call to come twixt you and him.
The land twixt the two fortifications.
But there is many a slip twixt a cup and a lip.
Twixt the realms of dragon and man.
You look the twixt end of the garden.
Twixt life and his death in a sleep without end.
There is many a slip twixt dress and drawers.

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Shoot twixt the wind and the water.
With just one veil twixt me and a blush.
The land twixt the two fortifications became known.
And the bond cracked twixt son and father.
And twixt the green sea and the azured vault.
Must needs be done twixt now and sunrise.
There twixt heaven and earth suspended as the bell swung to and fro.
I sense tension in the air twixt father and son.
Halfway twixt the darkest gate.
The mollusks imbibe one last sip twixt their valves.
From twixt its wee beak.
How brief the total span twixt birth and death.
Went down twixt the cow fellas and the sheep fellas.
As far as will fill up the time twixt this and supper.
The TwixT event.
The lark has spake from twixt its wee beak.
Halfway twixt the darkest gate and this tablet laid atop a pairèd fate.
There is many a slip twixt the cup and the altar.
Twixt truth and madness lies But a sliver of a stream.
Gateway twixt distant east.
I shall always regret how things ended twixt my brother and me.
Squeezed twixt the thighs On a bed of sighs.
So halfway twixt.
Try to get some miles twixt us and that posse before I look at your leg.
Tis when the work stops when you are twixt wind and water.
Twixt winds and threatening clouds I alone have to go on.
Under authority of our treaty twixt the realms of dragon and man.
The land twixt the two fortifications became known as The Inbetween.
I shall always regret how things ended twixt my brother and thee.
And twixt thy stones glimpsed I the truth.
My journey forth and back again must needs be done twixt now and sunrise.
Twixt the Negroes of the South.
And this tablet laid Halfway twixt the darkest gate.
Twixt him and his twice-cursed pirate father.
That caused all the fighting twixt her folks and the Trojans.

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