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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:

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.
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.
(Mbeki, notorious for his wonkish style and nervous tics, polls poorly.)
(The NYT front-page market piece has many of the same tics, but at least mentions the plus for home buyers.