Example Sentences

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Feline lovers in Kenya’s capital have been twitching over the threat of what is perceived as a “cat tax” - and any talk of tax in the East African nation raises the hackles.

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2024

Nostradamus' whiskers would have been twitching at the fantastic improbability of all of this.

From BBC • May 6, 2022

And finally, as the people must have been twitching in the pews wondering where this was all going, we get back to the late senator.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2012

"Oh, not at all," she replied, though I'm sure her lips must have been twitching.

From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by Gibbs, George

Otherwise he would still have been twitching in such a way that she must have noticed it.

From The Gloved Hand by Stevenson, Burton Egbert