Examples of 'yips' in a sentence

Meaning of "yips"

Yip is a sudden and involuntary movement or twitch, especially one that affects a person's golf swing or putting stroke
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  • A nervous condition which prevents a sportsperson from playing properly; especially a condition which causes a golfer to miss an easy putt, or a tennis player to serve a double fault.
  • plural of yip
  • third-person singular simple present indicative form of yip

How to use "yips" in a sentence

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His yips cost him his career.
You know little case of the yips.
Till this yips thing gets figured out.
You do not want to get the yips.
The yips also affects players in other sports.
Since you got a case of the yips.
This type of yips is a psychological response to performance anxiety.
Especially for a guy with the yips.
But yips may also have a neurological basis.
He is dangerously close to having the yips offensively.
The dog yips at the sight of us.
That outfit is enough to give anybody the yips.
Every fighter gets the yips once in a while.
You do not get better from the yips.
You can not get the yips in kickball.

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I am like a golfer with the yips.
Dog yips and barks.
I can not have the yips.
The yips is the loss of fine motor skills in athletes.
And then that makes the yips worse.
Dog yips softly.
I can not shake these yips.
Laughter yips softly.
You have got the yips.
The yips go away.
You are giving me the yips.
You used to get the yips pretty bad in the closing minutes.
I have got the yips.
The yips affects between a quarter and a half of all mature golfers.
And that fear has manifested itself into yips.
Overcoming yips relies on combating either or both of its two potential causes.
You are prone to the yips.
The Yips are extremely avaricious and will do almost anything for money.
You got hell of yips.
Yips with the Putter.
All got the yips.
This yips thing is probably just … nerves.
The curse of the yips.
The yips yeah, it happens to athletes all the time.
I think you are experiencing what golfers call the yips.
But I have respect for the putting yips and sympathy for the yipper.
It was the process for our promising pitcher to overcome his yips.
Can we talk about your yips for a moment?
I would just like to make sure that it was not a case of the yips.
In fact, yips is a condition that is little understood by medical professionals.
I am over the yips.
In golf, the yips is a movement disorder known to interfere with putting.
He has the yips.
Yips why the puzzling half smile that suggests you know something that i do not?
It might be the yips.

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