How to Use twitch in a Sentence

twitch

1 of 2 verb
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  • The knee twitched a time or two but not enough to get Paxton out of his rhythm.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
  • Her limbs twitched under the coarse sheets and the gaudy patchwork quilt.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Fishing from the beach near the end of the spit, Chitxeuane’s face lights up as his rod tip begins to twitch.
    — Matt Tunseth For The Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
  • By slowly twitching the rod, the Stick Shadd walks the dog under water.
    — Jimmy Fee, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Richard's face showed no emotion, but his hands started to twitch.
    — Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Her exoskeleton was slick with sweat, and her stinger was twitching in time with Bruno Mars.
    — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Dog twitching in its sleep?:Your pup might be dreaming about you How much do puppies sleep?
    — USA TODAY, 19 June 2023
  • Weeks later, Cassidy would be having lunch with a friend and his leg wouldn’t stop twitching.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • More:Meet the most expensive dog in the world, plus top 10 most expensive dog breeds More:Dog twitching in its sleep?
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2023
  • Once the drugs started flowing, his right hand fingers started to twitch, his mouth opened and that was his last movement.
    — The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Maybe your eye is twitching because the heat is slowly driving us all to madness.
    — Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Aug. 2023
  • This could be hissing, growling, putting their ears back or to the side, puffing up their bodies or twitching their tails.
    — USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
  • But then her legs started to twitch, and her abdomen and even her silk-producing spinnerets did so as well.
    — Betsy Mason, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2022
  • This does not cause twitching or affect the patient’s ability to move.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • Dog twitching in its sleep?Your pup is probably dreaming, maybe even about you.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • The sketch would end with him being wheeled away on a stretcher, on the brink of death — twitching, covered in filth, weeping — but also smiling.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 3 June 2023
  • Long hours of traditional surgery can cause human hands to twitch and fatigue.
    — Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2022
  • When Pinkerton is not in a scene, the singer who plays him often hovers to the side, gesturing and twitching in an indolent trance.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • His hands twitch excitedly as the server places a bowl of pasta before him.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2021
  • Hand in hand, their hips would twitch before their bodies meshed into a swivel, legs entwined.
    — Corina Knoll Ben Laffin Mark Abramson, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • While unsheathing the bow from its green bag, Warren said whales sometimes twitch but otherwise don’t seem to mind.
    — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Every so often, their legs curl and their spinnerets twitch—and the retinas of their eyes, visible through their translucent exoskeletons, shift back and forth.
    — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Every so often, their legs curl and their spinnerets twitch — and the retinas of their eyes, visible through their translucent exoskeletons, shift back and forth.
    — Carolyn Wilke, Popular Science, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Stray whiffs of dander, sufficient to send my body into conniptions mere months before, couldn’t even compel my nose to twitch.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2022
  • At Capaldi’s Glastonbury show, the Tourette’s visibly made the singer twitch mid-song, but his fanbase sang along to the lyrics until the symptoms subsided.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2023
  • The child might also twitch or show trouble with their coordination.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • His hands twitch in anticipation of taking the football.
    — Matt Barrows, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The sleeping pups continued to twitch exactly as before.
    — Amanda Gefter, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The mysterious condition also causes the muscles around Jasper's mouth to twitch.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • It’s been observed over decades of psychedelic study that mice, when exposed to hallucinogens, twitch their head in a distinctive way.
    — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 1 Oct. 2022
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twitch

2 of 2 noun
  • The fast twitch muscles are the first ones that shrink.
    — Didi Gluck, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The first day of rehearsal the twitch in my eye went away.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • No twitch of her arms or kick of her feet or slow turn of her head.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • That transcends all the quick twitch, the X-factor stuff, all that stuff.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The occasional twitch of the rod tip will cause these lures to dart to one side or the other.
    — Jimmy Fee, Field & Stream, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The lip on the frog chugs and throws water so a small twitch can still produce a lot of commotion.
    — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Collins scored a quick 12 points in the first half and used her quick-twitch drives to spark the Warriors when their offense sputtered.
    — Mike Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Gentle strips and line twitches will get the soft tail and rubber legs at the head working.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 22 June 2023
  • Has plenty of twitch and closing speed to pair with the quick reactions.
    — USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Saldivar's form was rock solid, without a hint of a twitch.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Their interior guys have got a lot of power, a lot of twitch to them.
    — oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2020
  • This twitch does at least give everyone in the car fair warning of the violence that is to come.
    — Daniel Golson, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Down the road, his size and quick twitch athleticism give him the chance to be a contested catch winner.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 28 Apr. 2023
  • When the e-skin was touched, nerve cells began firing in the rat’s brain, triggering leg twitches.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2023
  • Audiences around the world want to watch her perform, and only the slightest twitch of her face begets giggles.
    — WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
  • For pike or trout, suspend a jerkbait that will hover in place after each twitch.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The roboticists came up with a clever solution: twitches.
    — Amanda Gefter, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2023
  • There’s very little for the actors to act except the twitch itself, which quickly grows tiresome through no fault of their own.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Looking like a cross between a rabid ferret and Marie Antoinette on a bad hair day, Bette Midler is the chief rhymes-with-twitch.
    — Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Putin had watched in horror through the 1990s as democratic ideals came in fits and twitches after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 28 July 2023
  • The ad is an eye-twitch in an Arkansas Democratic Party long in a coma.
    — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 17 June 2021
  • Here’s what scientists know about what causes muscle twitches and how to stop them.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2023
  • That’s not going to lead to huge numbers for a player like Ferguson, who isn’t quick-twitch, doesn’t explode out of his breaks, and needs room to build up speed.
    — Dallas News, 15 June 2022
  • Unlike football or soccer, baseball is a game of small-twitch muscles.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Each is passionately, meticulously fixed on the twitch of a hand, the expansion and compression of a torso, the turn of a head.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2023
  • These lures are prized for their ability to come to life with micro twitches of the rods tip, though they can also be fished more aggressively if the muskies are charged up.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But Fishback’s twitches and tics are pure body horror, something more akin to a tale of demonic possession.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Another familiar Morris device is giving each note a step, a gesture, or a twitch of its own.
    — Iris Fanger, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • Even subtle twitches, however, create a burst of flash thanks to the high chrome finish and holographic decals.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • These twitch tests—and countless others—are part of Wallach’s mind-bending new mandate, sparked by a late-2019 meeting with the heads of a company called Compass Pathways.
    — Wired, 28 July 2022

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