TWITCHING in a Sentence

Learn TWITCHING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

91 example sentences for TWITCHING, such as:

1. His mouth gave a slight twitch.
2. I felt someone twitch at my coat.
3. Is the twitch in my eyes noticeable?
4. His mouth twitched slightly, and then he smiled.
5. His pale face was twitching with a bitter smile.

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 Meanings and Examples of TWITCHING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
twitch
 v.  a short, sudden jerking or convulsive movement
Classic Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1  She always set to work on it at depressed moments, and now she knitted at it nervously, twitching her fingers and counting the stitches.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
2  "So you see," pursued Nikolay Levin, painfully wrinkling his forehead and twitching.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 25
3  She felt her eyes opening wider and wider, her fingers and toes twitching nervously, something within oppressing her breathing, while all shapes and sounds seemed in the uncertain half-light to strike her with unaccustomed vividness.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 29
4  This Levin, with his continual twitching of his head, aroused in her now an irrepressible feeling of disgust.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 30
5  "Only fancy, we all but ran over two soldiers," she began telling them at once, using her eyes, smiling and twitching away her tail, which she flung back at one stroke all on one side.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 18
6  With fresh force, he felt conscious of himself from the springy motions of his legs to the movements of his lungs as he breathed, and something set his lips twitching.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 22
7  He felt, too, something swelling in his throat and twitching in his nose, and for the first time in his life he felt on the point of weeping.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 22
8  His jaws were twitching, and his voice kept breaking.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 7
9  Alexey Alexandrovitch articulated with difficulty, his lips twitching and his face white.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 18
10  I beg," said Alexey Alexandrovitch shrilly, getting suddenly onto his feet, his face white and his jaws twitching, "I beg you to drop this.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 18
11  His lips and eyebrows too were twitching, and his beard was quivering.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  His pale face was twitching with a bitter smile.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  His cheeks, which were so flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were saying.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV
14  He muttered unceasingly, his eyebrows and lips twitching, and it was impossible to tell whether he understood what was going on around him or not.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
15  The red-faced man was still twitching, but they did not carry him away.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXII
Example Sentence:
1  Possible causes for lip twitching include ingesting too much caffeine, a potassium deficiency, reactions to certain medications or drugs.
2  The animal lay on the ground, its whole body twitching and jerking.
3  His mouth twitched slightly, and then he smiled.
4  The child's mouth twitched as if she were about to cry.
5  When I stood up to her, her right cheek would begin to twitch.
6  He tried to suppress a smile but felt the corner of his mouth twitch.
7  His mouth gave a slight twitch.
8  I noticed little things, a dip of the head, a twitch in the shoulder.
9  I thought the mouse was dead, but then it gave a slight twitch.
10  I felt someone twitch at my coat.
11  Is the twitch in my eyes noticeable?
12  The bird dog's nose twitches and his whiskers quiver as he strain eagerly against the leash.
13  Olivia's face convulsed in a series of twitches.