twitch
verb (used with object)
to tug or pull at with a quick, short movement; pluck.
were twitching
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past progressiveof twitch.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were twitching and witching.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
Even when she was silent, her lips were twitching.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
"It makes you want to scratch your legs and get up and walk about - it was just impossible to lie down and sleep because one's legs were twitching in this uncontrollable way," she explained.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2017
Cousin Violet's financial antennae were twitching like Isis' nose in search of a covertly concealed veal pie.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2013
A hard edge had come into Miss Ellis’s voice, and her eyebrows were twitching madly.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
