What is "tics"

Usage examples of "tics".

All of us who lived through those days came out the other side mumbling under our breaths, quivering with twitches, tics, and phobias.

We grew tics, which constantly twitched, and harvested and bundled them for the clocks of other folk.

Then I scoured the region, watching for wild tics, and managed to spy one.

Cathbad, his white robe unmarred, stood to watch every wriggle and writhe and jerk, the direction each took, the part of the body involved, clonus of head or arms or shoulders or legs, twitches in the fingers or toes, dying tics in the buttocks.

She knew the pain of these tics because she had witnessed his face recently all the muscles twitching and distorting like some kind of Halloween mask.

Tegg felt a sharp pain in the very top of his skull, and one of his tics hit him hard.

He experienced one of those tics then-his head jerking, his shoulder lifting, his eyes squinting shut.

He flinched with one of those tics, and we both traded grins at this mutual show of nerves.

My nervous tics shifted into their highest gear, and a small crowd gathered to watch what they believed to be an exotic folk dance.