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Example sentences for: tics

How can you use “tics” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The camera goes in tight to show the complex emotions and various facial tics playing across Clooney's handsome mug, and we hear a fusillade of gunfire--it seems to go on forever!
I find such linguistic tics simply sloppy semantics.
Newsweek 's dubious list of recent home schoolees: Jessica DuBroff, the 7-year-old pilot whose plane crashed; Rebecca Sealfon, the national spelling bee champion with bizarre social tics; and Hanson, the teen-idol pop group with great hair.
Anticipating the patient's regular tics, the researchers monitored how his grip on the sensor box changed as his arm twitched.
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.