How to Use tic in a Sentence

tic

noun

• The verbal tic “you know” often occurs in her speech.
• There are tics and quirks that come up through the process.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 June 2019
• The rhythms, the tics, the inflections are simply not the same.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• The problem here is Mr. Long’s Adam, a twitchy knot of tics and self-pity.
  — Andy Webster, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• Half the users are avid Friends fans scared to finish the video and reveal the tic.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 23 Feb. 2021
• Or play tic-tac-toe in the soap suds with a patient inside.
  — Alan Berner, The Seattle Times, 16 Apr. 2018
• Robert Norman has all the tics of Spock — the tilt of the head, the flat inflection when speaking.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 June 2018
• The fashion tics of punk—Doc Martens, pink and black and spikes and skulls—continues to sell.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 10 Oct. 2013
• The tics, though less urgent, were still there Thursday night.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2016
• The next tic-tac-toe passing play for a goal might be their first one this season.
  — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 18 Jan. 2017
• Such tics may seem childish, but a lot of voters love this stuff.
  — Simon Shuster / Zurich, Time, 7 Mar. 2018
• The girl later said that the tic was a result of Groom yelling and throwing objects at her.
  — Gus Garcia-Roberts, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• Games included egg rolling, a bean bag toss and tic-tac-toe.
  — Chuck Crow, cleveland.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• Now do the tic-tac-toe-and-delete thing to each of the eight remaining squares on every face of the cube, but smaller.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 4 Mar. 2020
• Place squares on painted plaque to create tic-tac-toe board.
  — Sarah Newell, Seventeen, 12 Sep. 2018
• The episode ends with Hannah, again sitting in her bathroom, again with her OCD tics.
  — Eric Vilas-Boas, Esquire, 11 Mar. 2013
• One recurring tic is a rapid run of notes that gives way to a trill—a kind of scurry-and-shake gesture.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
• There were big boards on which to play pumpkin checkers and pumpkin tic tac toe.
  — 'sam' Boyer/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• The pressure was so intense leading up to the flight that Collins developed tics in both eyes.
  — al.com, 20 July 2019
• Lighting fast with little recoil, the .243 will reach out and smack a coyote hard enough to knock tics off its hide.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 17 Sep. 2019
• The Lightning took the turnover gift, and Brayden Point completed a tic-tac-toe passing sequence with a tap-in goal to tie the game.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
• Get some long twigs to fashion a tic-tac-toe board on the picnic table, and a tic-tac-toe contest should ensue.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2019
• Sometimes, Yun has a narrative tic of retelling what is already known from the details.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
• The tic communicates his jangled nerves in one deft move.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2019
• As for lemon or lime, recall that the original recipe, in a precious and annoying tic of the early 1900s, had both.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2023
• These lines are both nervous tics and statements of blithe confidence.
  — Phillip MacIak, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Most of all, my tics, while not gone completely, calmed down tremendously.
  — Glamour, 30 Apr. 2019
• Developing a tic would likely take more than one viewing of a video, Dr. Hull said.
  — WSJ, 16 Oct. 2021
• That’s because the trip quickly becomes the Matt and Chris show, a long-running two-hander stuffed with bickering, personality tics and grievances that suggests a friendship of opposites long past its sell-by date.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
• Because the original Not-Ready-for-Primetime Players are so well-known by now, the movie falls back on a lot of recognizable tics and characteristics rather than developing them as characters.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024