I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
body
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The doctor was having trouble since the body was twitching and he was uttering curses about the lack of morphine.
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There was a movement, a rustling of papers, then a glimpse of a wriggling brown body and some twitching whiskers.
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The tramp had fallen forward on to his face, his body twitching madly, blood spreading out around his head.
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Saunders' body was twitching violently as his blood leaked out in dying jets, slicking the walkway.
face
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The tramp had fallen forward on to his face , his body twitching madly, blood spreading out around his head.
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Then his face would begin to twitch .
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As more time passed his face twitched slightly, his cheeks bulged and his face turned purplish-black.
lip
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The two greys snickered in reply, blowing out their lips and twitching their ears upon hearing their names.
mouth
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None of the members of the bands mouths were even twitching , and I felt immensely deflated.
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Melissa's arched eyebrows rose into her hairline and her mouth twitched suggestively.
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From the way her mouth twitched , it was plain she was on the verge of breaking down.
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The corner of Morris's mouth twitched up into his cheek and fell back.
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Suddenly the corner of his mouth twitched .
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She came back in, looked at Kath and her mouth twitched .
muscle
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His jaw was set, and a muscle in his temple twitched .
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The voluntary muscles begin to twitch uncontrollably and eventually die off.
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He could feel a muscle twitching under his eye.
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The muscles in his jaw twitched as he kicked the basketball, sending it airborne into the living room.
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Amanda's legs were so thin ... A muscle in her neck twitched , twitched again.
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His broken body, linked to an electronic muscle stimulator, twitched involuntarily.
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Burden thought him a weak womanish fool, despising his red eyes and the muscle that twitched in his cheek.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A muscle on Yang's face twitched.
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Greg's always twitching - it makes me nervous.
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Mac was very nervous. A muscle on his face began to twitch .
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My right eyelid wouldn't stop twitching.
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Roberta's mouth twitched as she tried to stop herself laughing out loud.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Amanda's legs were so thin ... A muscle in her neck twitched, twitched again.
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Hazel stared, twitching his nose.
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He was quiet, and his eyes were twitching.
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Her buttocks were twitching rhythmically to the music.
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Limp and relaxed, my jaw was beginning to twitch .
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The muscles of Artai's head and shoulders seemed to twitch .
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The spiders reach the joining at the trunk and settle there, twitching.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
nervous
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Constant activity can easily become an ineffectual nervous twitch .
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He had a nervous twitch and a speech impediment.
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He had a nervous twitch which jerked at a muscle at the corner of his thin-lipped mouth and a malevolent stare.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A twitch of anxiety crossed my father's face.
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It's just a nervous twitch .
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There was a twitch in my left cheek which I couldn't control.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even before its last twitch they sprang forward, securing the room.
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I laid it on soil; the shoulders managed a few slow twitches, pulled it an inch forward.
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Some experiments on skeletal-muscle strips have demonstrated that caffeine increases contractions, which might seem to explain some of the twitch phenomena.
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The muscles involved in such tremors and twitches are skeletal, as opposed to cardiac or smooth muscle.
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The ratio of fast twitch to slow twitch fibres varies between individuals and is determined by heredity.