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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:

One of the annoying tics of newspaper coverage of jury awards is the tendency to not cover the final money judgement with the same vigor as the initial sum.
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!
(The NYT front-page market piece has many of the same tics, but at least mentions the plus for home buyers.
I find such linguistic tics simply sloppy semantics.
Wiltshire starts with a review of Johnson's own medical history: juvenile scrofula, poor vision in one eye, the famous “tics and gesticulations,” gout, asthma, a stroke with transient aphasia, and finally “dropsy” with death due to arteriosclerotic heart disease with congestive failure.