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Example sentences for: tics

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I find such linguistic tics simply sloppy semantics.
Orphans with tics and dwarfs without lips or teeth ( Jack Maggs and The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith ), 10-year-old parricides and sexually abused teen-agers ( Illywhacker and The Tax Inspector )--Carey documents their stories in exhaustive, loving detail.
So dismayed are professors and administrators at the poor quality of their students' speech, reports the Boston Globe , that a number of schools, from Smith College to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are increasing classroom speaking requirements and offering electives to help students lose speech tics such as "whatever" and "you know."
Anticipating the patient's regular tics, the researchers monitored how his grip on the sensor box changed as his arm twitched.
Simultaneously, in the past, we meet the girls' roommate, Ricky (Mark Benton), who is very, very fat and is also a mass of tics and twitches.