What is "twos"

Usage examples of "twos".

Dead men, everywhere dead men -- they lay about in knots, they were flung by ones and twos in every position upon the open spaces, for all the world like the people on the grass in one of the London parks on a particularly hot Sunday in August.

Sweeping the glass all around us I could see here and there dots moving singly and in twos and threes and larger numbers.

The little band who had been told off for duty passed out into the street, proceeding in twos and threes along the sidewalk so as not to provoke attention.

These birds came from far in ones or twos to search for their favourite food, and the fact that others had been scared away did not cause them to cease from coming.

Kilian survivors crossed the avenue in twos and threes without attracting the attention of the Russians around the fire.

In twos and threes, the mujaheddin crossed the gushing torrent in a bamboo cage suspended from a thick wire and tugged across by hand.

In twos we entered the chamber and marched down the broad Aisle of Hope, as it is called, to the platform in the centre of the hall.

At my command, the youth leaped into one of the corridors, and in column of twos the soldiers followed him in good order, each company entering the corridor only at the command of its dwar, or captain.

Vertical black figures in twos and threes would advance, stop, watch, and advance again, spreading out as they did so in a thin irregular crescent that promised to enclose the pit in its attenuated horns.

As these folks came out by twos and threes upon the open, they found little knots of people talking excitedly and peering at the spinning mirror over the sand pits, and the newcomers were, no doubt, soon infected by the excitement of the occasion.

The Nomads were straggling back in twos and threes, calling to the women to prepare bandages and food, and replenish the firewood stacks.

A flying wolf pack that rallied by twos and formed in flights of three, three flights in echelon, three squadrons in a staggered vee.

After the lancers of the second squad reform from their line into the standard column of twos, Kusyl looks to Lorn.

So for want of firmer guidance they drifted off in ones and twos, Appius Claudius trying to give comfort to the devastated Vatia.