How To Use Twitch In A Sentence

He seemed nervous and twitchy as he came up close to Cleo, and rested a hand on the toe of her boot.
How does this twitchy recluse become the regal princess in Act III? Times, Sunday Times
Restlessness, anxiety , confusion, and twitching may also precede convulsions.
I thought the mouse was dead, but then it gave a slight twitch.
He twitched me by the sleeve.

Darcy snorted briefly, his mouth twitching.
A slight raise of the eyebrow, the merest twitch of the lip can say so much.
There's mumbling and there's staring and now there's twitching. Times, Sunday Times
A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
His mouth twitched slightly, and then he smiled.
His left leg was constantly twitching. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
If he'd been at all nervous or twitchy or had anything suspicious about him, I would have picked it up right away.
Tims's thoughts had forsaken the personal side of the question, when she was recalled to it by seeing the right hand in which the stylograph had been lying begin to twitch, the fingers to contract. The Invader A Novel
The fans have turned on their manager and the board are getting twitchy. The Sun
The subject is arranged around the city/country axis - half the plays are twitchy, snippy, morally grey urban comedies, and the other half are la-la land everything-is-nice-in-the-countryside pastorals.
The plane juddered skyward, helped no doubt by the mental efforts of 100 twitchy passengers willing it into the air.
After a few hours he awoke, still twitching, and stared at the ceiling for awhile, trying to figure out what to do now.
It's amazing what those twitchers can spot in the parched outback in Winter.
Terry is a sad, lonely, twitchy, uptight, neurotic, shy, and pathetic man.
In the experimental arrangements with which we are now dealing (isometrical work) the development of heat during the actual twitch also includes the amount of energy which under other circumstances appears as external work. Physiology or Medicine 1922 - Presentation Speech
Mallory twitched the tag again, careful not to move it too much.
A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
Then, last Saturday, Liverpool adjusted to cope with the pre-match loss of two key players, came back from conceding an early goal, and proceeded to thoroughly humiliate Manchester United at Old Trafford: "Ferguson, standing on the touchline in a coat reminiscent of Michael Foot, had the legs cut from under him and took to twitching from a seat in the dugout," whilst Wayne Rooney was reduced to an arm-whirling figure of anger and despair. Archive 2009-03-01
With a twitch of my finger I could cut her off. Christianity Today
His facial features can shift in a twitch from the innocent blankness of a choirboy during the sermon to the frantic grimaces of an axe-wielding berserker.
The two-wheelers felt like riding a very twitchy bike that was murder to balance.
The pain elicited on palpation of a tender point is localized to the area under palpation and does not elicit a jump or twitch.
His left leg was constantly twitching. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
My large ears twitched as I listened to the sound of the wood creaking inside of this house.
When I looked at his face I saw his blubber lips twitching with the efforts of attempted smile, but he couldn't quite carry it off.
I cheat by twitching my right leg. Times, Sunday Times
Increasing access and availability necessarily brings with it increased pressure for "practical" instruction and results, and a kind of credentialism that makes academics twitchy.
Like two gunslingers, the pair must now size each other up, staring intently through narrowed eyes, trigger fingers twitching, working out who will make the first move.
He twitched his head, and winced as a pain shot along the left side of his face.
One of Renee's eyebrows twitched and she began to tap a solitary fingernail onto the table.
her leg twitched convulsively
Better signs of calcium deficiency are muscle twitching and cramps. Times, Sunday Times
You may know me as an exactingly subtle novelist who peels away the artifices of European civilization to expose the twitching nerves of the human animal.
There was a Rris sitting on a pile of lumber with his back to us, tail twitching as the person regarded the carcass of the ship.
Lainie's spokes finally twitched through the side yard, but Dave hemmed and hawed about his smoking engine and how the garage guy would take him to work but he might need her to pick him up. Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature
Its mud-flats, sand dunes and salt marshes attract an array of unusual birds, which accounts for the number of twitchers with binoculars and long-lens cameras on the island.
A rabbit has been calculated to possess one-hundred-million olfactory receptors-small wonder its little schnozz is always twitching, it is trapped in an undulating blizzard of aromatic stimuli-and Marcel "Bunny" LeFever was reputed, with some exaggeration, to be the human equivalent of Peter Cottontail. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
Sekher lay sprawled upon his back, twitching spasmodically, mouth working silently.
Tomlinson is hopping over cones for a few minutes, then running while attached to a bungee cord to help activate fast-twitch muscles.
Even an alarm clock buzzing right beside her head or a horn blowing near her ear wouldn't make her twitch or cause even the slightest flinch.
Such a twitch is usually known as a tic (a word arising from the same root that "twitch" does, perhaps). The Human Brain
I cheat by twitching my right leg. Times, Sunday Times
The whole was bound by a thick, rich "diable" seafood broth that was slightly sweet and carried a surprisingly aggressive - to me, pitch-perfect - twitch of heat. l'Ambroisie, Paris, France The ulterior epicure
Watson is rangier than his countryman, a spindly mass of nervous energy and fast-twitch muscles. Bubba Watson and Dustin Johnson add power to USA's Ryder Cup bid
Desiree sighed, her nostrils twitching like they always did when she was in deep thought.
She twitched the corner of the rug to straighten it.
I remember looking at him there, that shadowy figure sitting cross-legged on that cushion with his peaked ears twitching, his eyes flashing like a brief flare of sun off oil on water.
You must have predominantly fast-twitch, white fibres in your muscles to generate really fast, explosive action.
The projection was an abstracted human head, spasmodically twitching in a sort of half-nod. 365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Hope you find that little restaurant in downtown Paree where the steak is almost twitching and the sauce says "heaven can wait". Page 4
I should have a refill available on the darvocet ... at a store that I don't know if they even HAVE up here. * twitch* I'll likely call the dentist today. Jaxraven Diary Entry
My legs are twitching involuntarily and I can barely push myself up to standing position. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly, more sounds of sneezes reached my ears as Angela and Sara pounded into my room, both their noses tinged slightly pink and twitching, rabbit-like.
Williams was so hyper it made Faulkner ‘look like a Zen Buddhist, even with his twitching’.
They twitched, swayed and finally did a lively little jig - but there was no bird in sight.
Butts's clipped ears twitched, his eyes narrowed and his flews curled into a snarl.
I was prescribed Flexeril (cyclobenzaprine) to ward off the twitch, and, in an effort to reset my internal clock, a limited number of Ambien (zolpidem). Dustbury.com » Tabatha Twitchit takes a nap
Her hand twitched again, and this time he knew it was real.
On the other hand, they're liable to curtain-twitching, sullen frostiness in the cafe, and complete closedown by 7.30pm. Times, Sunday Times
His mouth gave a slight twitch.
But there's also a twitch of fear in Greg's normally laughing blue eyes.
The placid look of his countenance never changed for an instant; his whole frame rested, uncontrolled, in perfect stillness and repose; not a muscle was seen to twitch.
An alternative medicine quack reckoned he could cure Faulkner of his twitching with a six-month course of treatment.
His body twitched from the sheer ecstasy of it all.
My twitchy, fidgety mind was already having trouble settling on any single subject for more than thirty seconds.
He looked at me, then twitched his ears in rueful laughter and moved back a couple of steps until all I could see of him was his silhouette against the grey nimbus surrounding the moon.
Bâtard's body twitched with the shock, threshed the ground spasmodically for a moment, and went suddenly limp. BÂTARD
Her twitching hands ploughed through the heap, and the coins tinkled among her fingers. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories
Try to remove your gaze and in the corner of your eye the head seems to twitch on the canvas. Times, Sunday Times
Seeing the slight twitch on the corner of Paul's mouth, Gabby saw that he took the comment in good humor.
Other scientists are exploring personal qualities that span phylogenies and allegories: Recent research suggests that highly sensitive, arty-type humans have a lot in common with squealing pigs and twitchy mice, and that to call a hypersensitive person thin-skinned or touchy might hold a grain of physical truth. STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
The gift also had a pink nose, pointy twitchy ears, and four paws.
Taylor plays him with ferrety frowns and twitchy fingers.
But one particular species had the expert twitcher frantically flicking through the ornithology books when it was delivered to his doorstep this week.
But her mouth twitched in reply to his cheeky grin, and she sighed, visibly letting go some of her tension.
Nevertheless, I find myself at this weird juncture, a cultural snag wrapped in a conundrum shaped like a question mark dressed in scratchy raw Japanese selvedge and smoking American Spirits, glumly, in a grungy hoody, outside the bike shop, twitching just a little. Mark Morford: Forgive Me, I Do Not Like The Arcade Fire
Jason looked at me, a smile twitching at the corner of his mouth.
The chamber was rapt, eyes agog, lips twitching upward. Times, Sunday Times
I just started drooling and twitching uncontrollably, my mind seeming to flicker on and off, on and off, over and over and over.
I asked and attempted to sit on the bed, but I felt a twitch of pain on my body and Irrazé pushed me back onto the bed.
Cautiously, Rakael twitched the covers aside, exposing his pale chest.
Her body convulsed into spasms and the twitching got worse as the situation got worse.
The leopard braced for the charge, tail twitching, snarling, head low, outstretched forepaws, hindquarters arched.
Keep throwing the truth at this material and it will sweat and twitch and stutter and tremor and pulsate and eventually melt. Scientists Discover New Super-Hard Fabric
She was no curtaintwitcher, like many round here, and despite the torrential flow of other people's business through what was not just her home but her business, she had never succumbed to the temptation to poke her snib in where it hadn't been invited. Quite Ugly One Morning
Since the direct maximal motor twitch compared with the standard reflex twitch can reveal the proportion of the whole muscle which the standard reflex twitch activates, we can find further what proportion of the whole muscle is reflexly inhibited. Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
His long, unbrushed, curly hair and unshaved face let him look kind of intimidating and his fingers bent the wrong way, which always made me twitch.
Better signs of calcium deficiency are muscle twitching and cramps. Times, Sunday Times
The muscle is contracted and hard, and an observer can see fasciculation - small twitchings - over its surface.
These last few have been days to hold on to: bright sunshine through fat-bottomed clouds; ringlet butterflies flickering over flowering grasses; yellow-and-black-banded cinnabar moth caterpillars twitching as they spun threads to tie themselves to ragwort; bright pink lip-gloss heads of pyramidal orchids – these things once observed becoming dearly held. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
Finally, by torchlight, I take a twitching haunch, cover it with rock salt and smear it with wild sage, and we've got dinner.
Afterwards, I twitch nervously and experience flashing visions of her rolling her eyes and barking, ‘What business is it of yours?’
One of his gossamer wings had been snapped off and the other was bent at a sharp angle, the many broken nerves causing it to twitch feebly.
As Karya's emotions flickered across her face, Aidan's lips were twitching.
Do you feel twitchy in the mornings if you haven't checked your messages? Times, Sunday Times
When they wheeled him out he was vaguely conscious, twitching slightly less, but bleeding copiously. Archive 2009-03-01
I get twitchy with caffeine, but get no internet connection. Times, Sunday Times
The area is renowned for its bird life and there were several twitchers already there, all armed with binoculars.
Would you like your fortune spaed, sir?" asked my black friend, twitching his thumb in the direction of his wife, who was leering on me with a friendliness begot of the bottle. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
You are looking for signs of weakness, for twitches that indicate untruthfulness, for signs of prevarication and mendacity. Dead Zero
Many an SF reader twitches irately every time they read a newspaper article equating SF fans and "UFO nuts". Archive 2008-01-01
His brows were furrowed and his lower eyelid twitched in anger.
On the other hand, some suggest that it requires neither courage nor skill to outwit a bouncy, four-legged, floppy-eared thing with a twitchy pink nose.
Only a few minutes ago I felt a slight twitch in the boy's calf muscle.
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Aside from the visual zimzam of twitchy cuts and soft-focus art-film tricks, it gets draggy while you wait for the wonder twins to figure out where they should look.
The justice of the peace was a twitchy little man with a stutter and a two-dollar rug laid cattywampus across his head. Come Again No More
And an unco fright ye gae me when ye cam ahint and took a grip o 'me," said Jenny, giving him a sly twitch with her finger and her thumb -- "if ye hadna been an auld acquaintance, ye daft gomeril" -- Old Mortality, Complete
Birkin, a Londoner who has survived the Great War but is left with a stammer, a nervous twitch, and vivid nightmares, is given the summer job of uncovering a mediaeval wall-painting in the church of a small Yorkshire village.
Playing the twitchy bantamweight to Sean P. 's hulking heavyweight, Buckshot bounced onto the stage almost three hours in and powered through Black Moon standards "Buck 'Em Down" and "I Got Cha Opin," then set off the night's second mosh pit with the whole Boot Camp performing the Jamaican dance hall-influenced smash "Sound Bwoy Bureill. Music review: Boot Camp Clik at Liv
The most common time for people to experience these myoclonic twitches is when they are falling asleep, and the occurrence is called a hypnic jerk. Ilene Kleinbaum: The Great Wake Up Program: My Sleep Education
The leopard braced for the charge, tail twitching, snarling, head low, outstretched forepaws, hindquarters arched.
It's too early to get twitchy. Times, Sunday Times
Why does my eyelid twitch? The Sun
In the eerie silence, Sanura felt a twitch of hunger.
They inspire a twitcher-like frenzy and rare species prompt great irruptions of lovestruck orchid-hunters. Times, Sunday Times
This nervine herb is also "antispasmodic" which makes it great for people with constant nervous twitching. Simple mom
But when you arrive, what you find is a gem of an island that is a Mecca for yachties and twitchers, but which is seriously overlooked by ordinary tourists like me.
His ears began to twitch when they picked up the sound of a soft moan coming from within the rubble.
We can’t see them, except for a bit of net curtain twitching from the caravans, and the odd small cluster of garishly dressed ginger-headed teenagers who walk around us in circles, then stand out of earshot to make obvious mobile phone calls. Everyday Ends With A Why « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Many a bunch of vigilante bully-boys would have worked them over into lumps of fillet steak, twitching and staining the carpet.
I twitched the line imparting life into the fly - a fly that was created in Northern Canada.
If I don't get a bite in a few minutes I lift the rod and twitch the bait.
I watched her close her eyes and they seemed to tremble, the muscles of an eighty-year-old involuntarily twitchy.
They're twitchy, slouchy, and angry-looking.
With a twitch of my finger I could cut her off. Christianity Today
The chamber was rapt, eyes agog, lips twitching upward. Times, Sunday Times
But her mouth twitched in reply to his cheeky grin, and she sighed, visibly letting go some of her tension.
Then, going to the bag, her compressed lips twitching, her gray eyes piercing into its clasp with a kind of distrustful optimism, she lifted the pincers and tweaked it hard. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
Here the symptoms were epileptic seizures, dance-like twitching, and formication.
Standing next to rainforest so dense you couldn't see for more than a few centimetres into it, and hearing the bird so frustratingly close but not being able to see it, is a special sort of torture for twitchers.
He started getting all nervous and twitchy, so guilty because he felt he'd let his mother down.
The long and short is this: this is probably the best game-play design that I've seen in years; the game play is twitchy - if you're a purist you're going to have a conniption playing this.
The BIRDING COMMUNITY encompasses a broad spectrum of backyard birders, opportunist oglers, weekend watchers, and hardcore twitchers.
It seems to help the twitching but is not a solution for the abnormal sensations and pain. Times, Sunday Times
He is a nervy, jumpy sort of a chap, who follows people with his eyes as they move about a room, and he is constantly twitching about, seeking approval and trying to be everyone's mom.
The United Nations chief is charming and charismatic, but his nervy doctrine for ending wars makes world leaders twitch.
I was very twitchy about the way things would turn out.
I saw soldiers' heads turn and nostrils twitch distractedly.
She made a little twitch of a finger, and Jeff finally locked the tracer.
And a steady stream of twitchers, from all across the North West, made the journey after news of the birds' arrival was posted on a birdwatchers' website.
Muscles necessary for the rapid dorsoventral expansion of the head are composed primarily of fast-twitch fibers while those involved in more tonic contractions such as hyoid protraction have more slow-twitch muscle fibers.
But a tendency to choke is no more a character failing than a nervous twitch or a persistent stammer. Times, Sunday Times
Eli got progressively better, as good as his crooked legs and scoliotic back and twitchy arms would allow, and by week's end he and I stood side by side against the wall, while the rest of our team compared bruises on the sideline. Land of the Blind
The Seattle coffeehouse bustled around them; his Austrian nose twitched at the odors. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
The rest of the day was spent consuming massive amounts of diet soda and rediscovering the fact that too much caffeine made her twitchy and a little off kilter.
Others suffered from psychoneurotic symptoms alone - mutism, loss of speech, hysterical twitching, and uncontrollable jerkings of arms and legs.
He was dressed in an immaculate white suit, and had an absolutely fantastic bushy mustache that twitched like a live squirrel every time he spoke.
We resumed holding hands, all our faces now purposefully solemn, though with little smiles twitching at our mouths.
Black nostrils twitched as the animal nosed over the tracks, then sauntered along the trail, head down, sniffing.
Dale's eyebrow twitched in slight annoyance, as he walked past the girl coolly.
I have found the Maalem, master of a bakehouse, a short, olive-skinned, wild, and wiry little man, whose yellowed eyes and contracting pupils tell a tale of haschisch and kief that his twitching fingers confirm. Morocco
His chunky, twitchy presence is the perfect foil for Li's monotone, driven one and the scenes the two have together are amongst the best in the film.
Once a good putter, but now very twitchy under pressure. Times, Sunday Times
Advertising is always one of the first cuts when companies feel twitchy. Times, Sunday Times
The body twitched violently and then lay still.
As the time for her driving test approached, she started to get twitchy.
She almost twitched into a fetal position, and her body moved slightly in one last defense.
A pneumatic drill began, making his shoulders twitch as the sergeant on duty at the door saluted him, ushered him inside. THE LAST RAVEN
This "twitch-reflex", recorded isometrically by the myograph, exhibits a tension proportional to the number of motor units engaged, in other words to the size of the single centrifugal impulse volley. Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
They are watching each other right now, trigger fingers twitching, waiting to see who moves first. Times, Sunday Times
Others discovered that after months or years of treatment they developed uncontrollable muscle twitches or tics that were often irreversible, even after stopping the drugs.
The movements may vary from hardly noticeable choreiform twitches or dystonic posturings to nearly constant restless activity of extremities and trunk.
It looked around savagely with its gigantic, mesmerizing eyes bright red tongue hung out, twitching.
Curtain-twitching old grannies call the cops when they see someone nicking your car.
The new design puts you in the cockpit sooner and the ground combat is more "twitchy"- meshing with the space system. Order 66
Mrs Dunne was being treated for blepharospasm, a condition which causes twitching of the facial muscles.
A twitch of old thin skin, rosy with the sunsetting light of life behind it. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
The controversial series continues despite furious criticism from twitchers who phoned in when last week's opening episode failed to secure the survival of the rare Weeping Warbler.
Lying on one side had made her back stiff, and her legs a little twitchy… She felt drawn so tight, so tense, that she would snap.
The success of mini-game collections and sports games point to the audience loving games that promote playing together with friends in the same room, rather than the CoD or Halo experience, where the gamer is in a dark room, palms sweaty and fingers ready to twitch analog sticks at the slightest provocation. Wii On The Brain
Simon picked it up, and with a quick twitch flicked the little drop of sweat off and onto Tebert's itinerary.
Once I got my name tag and checklist, I sat down at a table, all twitchy and nervous.
As the newly generated axonal nerves reached the paralyzed muscle tissue, the muscle began to twitch. The Autoimmune Epidemic
His lips twitched and he seemed to struggle to compose himself.
He can twitch his cheek when he wants to. Times, Sunday Times
My voice isn't all that bad, but I was kind of twitchy and stuttery, especially in a situation when I was on the air live, working without a script. "Put THAT on the news!"
I twisted and twitched and writhed, but they wouldn't let me go.
There's mumbling and there's staring and now there's twitching. Times, Sunday Times
He could only stare at her there, watching her breathe and watching her eyes twitch beneath her lids.
I was beginning to recognize that eyebrow movement as an alert to suspicions, as opposed to his half-hitch twitch on the left, which indicated surprise. The Brush Off
The boy was twitching a bug between his fingers.
Cannichael's limbs twitched autonomically and she watched, transfixed, until they were still. Blood Test
China watchers say Beijing is already "twitchy" because all three presidential candidates in Taiwan's March election advocate de facto independence. A Red-Flag Issue For Beijing
He had one hand on the wheel and the other holding that scrambled-frequency carphone to his ear, his head twitching as he spoke, probably talking as forcefully and deliberately as he did everything else. Country of the Blind
I noticed little things, a dip of the head, a twitch in the shoulder.
While Casey might run the show when they were airborne, Twitch was in charge dirtside. Firefly Ship Works Ltd. » Blog Archive » Stray Dogs, Chapter One: An Unexpected Gift
It was with a twitch of this kind, and a certain indescribable twinkle of his somewhat melancholy eye, as he seemed intuitively to form a hasty conception of the oddity of his appearance to a stranger unused to the bush, that he welcomed me to his clearing. Roughing It in the Bush
It's like sitting on a river bank with a fishing rod, anticipating the slightest twitch from beneath the water.
He twitches the fabric to free it from where it has snagged and pulls the curtains open wide.
He was acutely conscious of the fact that his life hung on a twitch of his captor's trigger finger.
Then, when two or three of the big brown rats snuck out to twitch and nose through the trash, he'd put his shotgun up to his shoulder and fire.
Cut to Tenacity, where Maria dares to have an opinion and is called conniving and twitchy by Holly's loyal hench-angel. Starpulse Entertainment News
If the stimulus be repeated, the muscle makes a new twitch, apparently resembling the preceding one; and if the muscle is attached to a suitable connecting lever, the several twitches give the same effect as the strokes of a piston in a steam-engine. Physiology or Medicine 1922 - Presentation Speech

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