twin boys

collocation in English

meaningsoftwinandboy

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twin
noun[C]
uk
/twɪn/us
/twɪn/
either of two children born to the same mother on the ...
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boy
noun[C]
uk
/bɔɪ/us
/bɔɪ/
a male child or, more generally, a male of ...
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(Definition oftwinandboyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Two of these children were twin boys.
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There are twin boys of three at home all the time, and there is one daughter at home sick at the moment.
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Those twin boys had been in care all their lives and it had not been possible to find somebody suitable to take them together.
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Within five months, they received a phone call from another area of the country asking them please to adopt twin boys of the nationality in question.
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She gives birth to twin boys as silent or speechless as she.
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His wife gives birth to twin boys, one of them blind.
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She gives birth to twin boys of remarkable beauty; her uncle orders her death and theirs.
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A revolutionary new process was used in separating the twin boys.
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The old man and the twin boys make the monastery their home.
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She was married from 2004 to 2012 and has twin boys from that marriage.
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Abassa would get pregnant and give birth to twin boys in secret.
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She was pregnant, but still fought and delivered twin boys during a long battle.
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They had three sons but their first, twin boys, died shortly after birth.
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He was survived by one-year-old twin boys upon his death.
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He is the father of identical twin boys.
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The two have four children together, including a set of identical twin boys.
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His wife gave birth to twin boys, and two plants sprang up, bearing shields, in the garden.
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In 1902 his wife gave birth prematurely to twin boys, but neither survived more than a few hours, and they had no more children.
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She is married to a fellow cop and has three sons including a set of twin boys.
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