Sentence examples for compulsive habits from inspiring English sources

He was biting, spitting and showing compulsive habits.

Their breakthrough comes when Jeff recognizes that the muttering that accompanies one of Kris's compulsive habits contains passages from Thoreau.

Of his client's compulsive habits, Mr. Gilbert offered: "Is he a hoarder; does he have a cluttered office?

Hence, the extreme difficulty of breaking deep-rooted compulsive habits.

Nor does the report consider how making legal substances more expensive and more difficult to get could be used as means of controlling youth drinking and other compulsive habits, though CASA Columbia did consider these interventions last year in a report on adolescent substance abuse (see here and here).

On the air and off, Mr. Kasem is by and large a creature of compulsive habit.

"As an adolescent, I had this compulsive habit of tapping and drumming on tables, walls, my books," he told me.

Deference to the divine has become a communal reflex, a compulsive habit, like the incessant honking of Egyptian cabdrivers — even when there are no other cars on the street.

And if Mr. Morris's most profound observation about Roosevelt's presidential character is only that he liked to seek balance with the "by now compulsive habit of following every statement with a counterstatement," Roosevelt ultimately speaks best for himself.

With the exception of Robert, whose simmering inferiority complex and compulsive habit of touching everything to his chin rivals "Seinfeld's" Kramer for sheer weirdness, the characters in "Raymond," though finely drawn and full of wit, are suburban and decidedly unhip.

Make your lab notebook entries a compulsive habit.