How To Use Twitching In A Sentence
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Restlessness, anxiety , confusion, and twitching may also precede convulsions.
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Darcy snorted briefly, his mouth twitching.
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There's mumbling and there's staring and now there's twitching.
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A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
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His left leg was constantly twitching.
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After a few hours he awoke, still twitching, and stared at the ceiling for awhile, trying to figure out what to do now.
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A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
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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.
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His left leg was constantly twitching.
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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.
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I cheat by twitching my right leg.
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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.
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Better signs of calcium deficiency are muscle twitching and cramps.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sekher lay sprawled upon his back, twitching spasmodically, mouth working silently.
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I cheat by twitching my right leg.
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Desiree sighed, her nostrils twitching like they always did when she was in deep thought.
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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.
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The projection was an abstracted human head, spasmodically twitching in a sort of half-nod.
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Hope you find that little restaurant in downtown Paree where the steak is almost twitching and the sauce says "heaven can wait".
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My legs are twitching involuntarily and I can barely push myself up to standing position.
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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.
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Williams was so hyper it made Faulkner ‘look like a Zen Buddhist, even with his twitching’.
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On the other hand, they're liable to curtain-twitching, sullen frostiness in the cafe, and complete closedown by 7.30pm.
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An alternative medicine quack reckoned he could cure Faulkner of his twitching with a six-month course of treatment.
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Her twitching hands ploughed through the heap, and the coins tinkled among her fingers.
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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.
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Jason looked at me, a smile twitching at the corner of his mouth.
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The chamber was rapt, eyes agog, lips twitching upward.
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I just started drooling and twitching uncontrollably, my mind seeming to flicker on and off, on and off, over and over and over.
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Her body convulsed into spasms and the twitching got worse as the situation got worse.
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The leopard braced for the charge, tail twitching, snarling, head low, outstretched forepaws, hindquarters arched.
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Better signs of calcium deficiency are muscle twitching and cramps.
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The muscle is contracted and hard, and an observer can see fasciculation - small twitchings - over its surface.
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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.
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Finally, by torchlight, I take a twitching haunch, cover it with rock salt and smear it with wild sage, and we've got dinner.
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As Karya's emotions flickered across her face, Aidan's lips were twitching.
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When they wheeled him out he was vaguely conscious, twitching slightly less, but bleeding copiously.
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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.
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The leopard braced for the charge, tail twitching, snarling, head low, outstretched forepaws, hindquarters arched.
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This nervine herb is also "antispasmodic" which makes it great for people with constant nervous twitching.
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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.
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Many a bunch of vigilante bully-boys would have worked them over into lumps of fillet steak, twitching and staining the carpet.
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The chamber was rapt, eyes agog, lips twitching upward.
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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.
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A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
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Here the symptoms were epileptic seizures, dance-like twitching, and formication.
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It seems to help the twitching but is not a solution for the abnormal sensations and pain.
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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.
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Others suffered from psychoneurotic symptoms alone - mutism, loss of speech, hysterical twitching, and uncontrollable jerkings of arms and legs.
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We resumed holding hands, all our faces now purposefully solemn, though with little smiles twitching at our mouths.
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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.
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They are watching each other right now, trigger fingers twitching, waiting to see who moves first.
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It looked around savagely with its gigantic, mesmerizing eyes bright red tongue hung out, twitching.
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Curtain-twitching old grannies call the cops when they see someone nicking your car.
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Mrs Dunne was being treated for blepharospasm, a condition which causes twitching of the facial muscles.
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There's mumbling and there's staring and now there's twitching.
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The boy was twitching a bug between his fingers.
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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.
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What makes me so incensed my eyeballs are twitching is that, for the past few days, I have been forced to do just that: wait.
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He shook his head and his lips began twitching in amusement.
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For redears, jigging (twitching your line) often produces the best results.
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There Leo was still frowning at the computer, twitching the mouse around, grumbling.
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With the kind of face only a mother could love, Pettifer, this one-man show's twitching star, looks the part.
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They chitter, chatter and chirrup, twitching their tails as if they were furry lariats.
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The animal lay on the ground, its whole body twitching and jerking.
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The nights he slept away in twitching unconsciousness.
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In that unhallowed place centuries before, show trials were held, unjust and corrupt, and many innocents were sentenced to slow, twitching deaths on the gibbet.
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But this weekend, lurking behind the twitching curtains of semi-detacheds, was the nasty realisation that crime had propelled the blossoming Cork city suburb into unfamiliar and unwanted territory.
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He had the hind legs of a stag, curved and cloven and furred, a dusky lion tail twitching by the left hock.
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They are watching each other right now, trigger fingers twitching, waiting to see who moves first.
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From the ninth to the 19th centuries, Europe suffered a succession of epidemics caused by contamination of rye with ergot, a poisonous mold that produces the potent toxin ergotamine, consumption of which induces hallucinations, bizarre behavior and violent muscle twitching.
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his face is twitching
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_subsultus_ -- that involuntary twitching and cramp in the muscles of the limbs and abdomen which often characterizes this form of the opium malady, by degrees gets lulled as under a charm, and it may not even be necessary to repeat the dose in two and a half hours to remove it so entirely that the patient gets ten or fifteen minutes of refreshing sleep.
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Provers of the tincture (H.) in toxic doses experienced giddiness, stupor, and confusion of mind, twitchings of the limbs, intermission of the pulse, and other symptoms indicative of the epileptiform
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Overexposure can lead to symptoms of dizziness, respiratory problems, involuntary muscle twitching and even paralysis.
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And so complete was the bodily shut-down, with rapid eye movement and convulsive twitching, that a fierce pinch of the skin or a prick with a needle did nothing to wake her.
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Whitney yowled and pounced gleefully into the mess, her tail twitching excitedly.
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All he noticed was Paul's eyebrow twitching upward at the reaction.
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She opened her eyes and headed up King St, peering into cafes as she passed, twitching her nostrils like a sniffer dog, nosing out the secret stash of illicit nectar that would, of course, be the momentary answer to all her problems.
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In trigger-point injections, you may feel a sharp pain or muscle twitching when the needle hits the knotted muscle.
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After that Grandfather only hears the hiss of his belt being drawn through its loops as blood chokes his throat and drips from the tip of his bare, twitching foot.
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She kissed the scratch on my forehead with a loud, wet smack and then hurled herself onto Rafe's twitching lips.
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He saw the dog's twitching nose poke out of the basket.
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But this weekend, lurking behind the twitching curtains of semi-detacheds, was the nasty realisation that crime had propelled the blossoming Cork city suburb into unfamiliar and unwanted territory.
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Many a bunch of vigilante bully-boys would have worked them over into lumps of fillet steak, twitching and staining the carpet.
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The animal lay on the ground, its whole body twitching and jerking.
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There's mumbling and there's staring and now there's twitching.
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His right eye began twitching and an evil glint appeared in his eye.
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Bag-encumbered still photographers sat cross-legged on the floor in the wide aisle in front of the stage, carefully measuring and remeasuring focus and exposure, impatient fingers twitching on well-worn shutter releases.
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But the eyes were bleared and weak-lidded, the lips twitching and trembling from the various excesses in which he indulged, which excesses, as I was to learn, were largely devised and pandered by Yunsan, the Buddhist priest, of whom more anon.
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The purchase of a sub or a submersible by a private party would be impossible without twitching all manner of official eyebrows.
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Before completing his instalments, the customer without authority sold the car to Twitchings, a car dealer.
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Before completing his instalments, the customer without authority sold the car to Twitchings, a car dealer.
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Symptoms range from acute headaches to skin burning, muscle twitching and chronic pain.
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My legs are twitching involuntarily and I can barely push myself up to standing position.
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Most facial tics or twitching are ‘idiopathic, ‘a term that means that no one knows what causes them.’
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_ -- Sense of suffocation, twitchings of muscles, followed by tetanic convulsions and opisthotonos, each lasting half to two minutes.
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I can just see him sitting down to his tea and not being able to pick up his cutlery without twitching his knife and fork backwards and forwards in a rowing motion.
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To begin with, he ran through the sarabande in his mind, his left hand twitching the fingering behind him, the muscles of his bowing arm tensing and relaxing rhythmically.
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The cats watched each other, their tails twitching.
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It was sleeping peacefully, mooing faintly and twitching its hooves.
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Occasionally I would be rewarded with a wee, twitching, whiskered snout poking out of the little yellow house.
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Her eye twitching more violently, she slugs the fresh cup of tea.
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Blaise smiled her secretive smile, the corners of her mouth twitching in hidden mirth, and she switched her grip on the hilt of her sword.
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Other clues to Lyme disease have been identified, although these have not been consistently present in each patient: numbness and tingling, muscle twitching, photosensitivity, hyperacusis, tinnitus, lightheadedness, and depression.
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Here the symptoms were epileptic seizures, spastic movements, dance-like twitching, and formication.
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The top 10 are: talking about the weather, great at queueing, sarcasm, watching soaps, getting drunk, a love of bargains, a love of curtain twitching, stiff upper lip, love of all television and moaning.
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As the well-born Kate Hardcastle she is obliged, somewhat ironically in view of her role in Corrie, to pose as a barmaid, but even she gets legitimate laughs by her hip-twitching gait and air of sexual mischief.
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He appears not to have slept and is twitching slightly at one corner of his mouth.
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Twitching or myoclonus may be observed (often mistaken for seizures).
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Harsh actinic lights illuminated both the elephantine generators and horizontal warp core, and three twitching bodies on the floor.
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I love the guaranteed rush on days when you're so exhausted your eyelids are twitching.
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On the other hand, they're liable to curtain-twitching, sullen frostiness in the cafe, and complete closedown by 7.30pm.
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All that is needed to accomplish the radio control of the brain is a twitching muscle.
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Out go the twitching nostrils, flailing arms and sniffy declamations about a cheeky scintilla of vanilla and oodles of gunsmoke.
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Lanchon was in his fifties, an ugly baldheaded stumpy legs and a greedy, twitching mouth.
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From the ninth to the 19th centuries, Europe suffered a succession of epidemics caused by contamination of rye with ergot, a poisonous mold that produces the potent toxin ergotamine, the consumption of which induces hallucinations, bizarre behavior, and violent muscle twitching.
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When a person is in the REM phase, there is a noticeable twitching movement of the eyes under closed lids (hence the term rapid eye movement), and the voluntary muscles of the body are usually paralysed.
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They'd piled him in with the dead, and it was only later a naval ensign noticed him twitching.
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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.
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The animal lay on the ground, its whole body twitching and jerking.
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There are moments that the infantry can be sneaked up on and dispatched without even twitching.
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The band's rhythms are unlocked, almost floating, yet groove hard enough to provoke involuntary spine twitching in the listener, with the dual percussion attack of tambour and calabash underpinning the forest of crossrhythms.
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My hands were twitching madly, and I closed my eyes.
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He was bareheaded with whiskers proudly displayed, bright eyes prominent in grey-brown fur and large flat ears twitching with a life of their own.
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He ran a hand down the smooth and finely sculptured chest, the muscles twitching upon the caress of the long, tapered fingers.
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I love the guaranteed rush on days when you're so exhausted your eyelids are twitching.
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They chitter, chatter and chirrup, twitching their tails as if they were furry lariats.
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The video ends with the hanging of the Preacher, the final shot showing his legs twitching in their death throes.
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The chamber was rapt, eyes agog, lips twitching upward.
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His rheumy eyes were wandering sightlessly, but his ears were locked on me and twitching.
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He saw the dog's twitching nose poke out of the basket.
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She presented minimally responsive with myoclonic twitching and in ventricular fibrillation.
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All the children were suffering from sickness, vomiting and twitching.
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My legs are twitching involuntarily and I can barely push myself up to standing position.
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Other symptoms of poisonings in children who were treated with mercurous chloride for constipation, worms, or teething discomfort included swollen red gums, excessive salivation, weight loss, diarrhea and/or abdominal pain, and muscle twitching or cramping in the legs and/or arms.
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Its legs splayed out, occasionally twitching, and its dead body quickly began to stink of rotting Scourge.
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Implements less developed belong to a separate order of sound-producing contrivances, namely plectra, and may be described as permitting strumming by striking in place of twanging or twitching the strings.
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The show looks good, and he makes a powerful and sympathetic Lear - though the decision to play him as a twitching stroke sufferer is distracting and overstresses his infirmity.
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Johnathan craned his head to the side to look at the other man, his entire body convulsing, his fingers twitching, his throat contracting in and out from swallowing air, then finally, the man spoke.
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The cat sat with its tail twitching from side to side.
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Jupillon's smile had the jovial expression imparted by a wicked mouth, a mouth that was almost cruel at the corners of the lips, which curled upward and were always twitching nervously.
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I can just see him sitting down to his tea and not being able to pick up his cutlery without twitching his knife and fork backwards and forwards in a rowing motion.
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The animal lay on the ground, its whole body twitching and jerking.
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In many cases, owners and grooms resort to modifying the clip, twitching the horse, or even having the vet out every few weeks to inject sedatives.
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Down came the Scots, and they were cut up at Flodden, by Surrey, later made Duke of Norfolk: the Norfolk that was then, not the Norfolk that is now, that sinewy little twitcher constantly twitching toward his advantage.
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She just stared furiously at me, lips twitching with something to say, fists clenched to pummel me into something similar to hospital food.
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I wait for Diania to wake and dress, then I slip out of the storage facility and, still twitching, peek out into the room.
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In medical parlance, the twitching is called hypnagogic myoclonus (the first word refers to sleep and the second to muscle twitches).
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Intermittently, there was the teeth-twitching sound of an unpruned rose trail scratching at the glass.
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Pretty much my only moves involve jerking my arms robotically and twitching my head back and forth.
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I have been driven into a state of twitching frenzy by the overconsumption of crisps.
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The animal lay on the ground, its whole body twitching and jerking.
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Twitching, I barely suppressed the urge to scowl.
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They dropped to the floor and began twitching and wriggling slightly.
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A dog, white and black hair tangled in a knotted mess, slept at the girl's feet, paws twitching every once in a while, signs that he was dreaming.
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Symptoms range from acute headaches to skin burning, muscle twitching and chronic pain.
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Ben, his lips twitching, and in his eyes that haunting fear which always foreran the father's struggles.
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I love the guaranteed rush on days when you're so exhausted your eyelids are twitching.
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I cheat by twitching my right leg.
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I saw my mother's upper lip twitching, generally signaling that she was going to break down any second.
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Winthrop gives me an apologetic look, though a corner of his mouth is slightly twitching in amusement.
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If there was anything humiliating in being rated as an 'able-bodied young man who wasn't worth his salt,' as a loafer who was hardly fit to 'jackaroo' on a station, as a 'lazy lubber' who would 'go to the dogs if it weren't for his father,' George never betrayed that he felt humiliated by so much as the twitching of an eyelid.
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Muscles flexing, waiting, twitching, he has pounced on a starling, dispatched it with a single bite, and carried the limp lifeless thing away.
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He has a bit of a twitching problem and I don't think any General with sense in his head would trust him with a gun.
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He threw the dog's twitching body over the bulwarks just as he had done other sailors.
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He saw the dog's twitching nose poke out of the basket.
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They are watching each other right now, trigger fingers twitching, waiting to see who moves first.
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Altogether, it was a good first episode, full of suspense and plot lines twitching to get entangled.
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Tommy-Ray grinned to see it: its twitching legs, its mismatched eyes.
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But overuse can develop into "caffeinism," which may cause muscle twitching, insomnia, headaches and heart palpitations.
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Symptoms range from acute headaches to skin burning, muscle twitching and chronic pain.
The Sun
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Dogfish resting on the rocks are surprisingly alert, twitching away almost as soon as we notice them, with none of their usual torpid behaviour.
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So we treated to the sight of golfers altering their putting styles, trying not to ground their putters behind the ball, twitching and jitterbugging around worried about breaking this rule.
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His left leg was constantly twitching.
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To begin with, my metaphorical antennae were constantly twitching paranoically, and straining to catch those nightmarishly familiar giggles behind me.
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I was not sniffling, though my face might well have been drawn and twitching from the pain.
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