SPASMODIC in a Sentence
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16 example sentences for SPASMODIC, such as:
1. There could be seen spasmodic gulpings at his throat.
2. The spasmodic coughing in the auditorium annoyed the performers.
3. 'Yes,' said Sitnikov, hurriedly, and he gave a shrill spasmodic laugh.
4. The sea of history was not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previously.
5. Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven.
2. The spasmodic coughing in the auditorium annoyed the performers.
3. 'Yes,' said Sitnikov, hurriedly, and he gave a shrill spasmodic laugh.
4. The sea of history was not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previously.
5. Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven.
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Meanings and Examples of SPASMODIC
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spasmodic
a. affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm
a. occurring in spells and often abruptly
Classic Sentence:
1 She heard her own breath pass from loud evenness to spasmodic sobbing but her eyes were dry and burning as though there would never be tears in them again.
2 It was the first time she had ever come across the results of her spasmodic benevolence, and the surprised sense of human fellowship took the mortal chill from her heart.
3 A quick impulse that was somewhat spasmodic impelled her fingers to close in a sort of clutch upon his hand.
4 There could be seen spasmodic gulpings at his throat.
5 There was a spasmodic abandonment about it as if, in allowing herself to utter the sound the woman's brain had authorized what it could not regulate.
6 'Yes,' said Sitnikov, hurriedly, and he gave a shrill spasmodic laugh.
7 Tom Slattery owned no slaves, and he and his two oldest boys spasmodically worked their few acres of cotton, while the wife and younger children tended what was supposed to be a vegetable garden.
8 Prissy picked lazily, spasmodically, complaining of her feet, her back, her internal miseries, her complete weariness, until her mother took a cotton stalk to her and whipped her until she screamed.
9 And now abating in his flurry, the whale once more rolled out into view; surging from side to side; spasmodically dilating and contracting his spout-hole, with sharp, cracking, agonized respirations.
10 Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven.
11 Prince Hippolyte laughed spasmodically as he stood in the porch waiting for the vicomte whom he had promised to take home.
12 He sat with his legs up on the sofa as if quite at home and, having stuck an amber mouthpiece far into his mouth, was inhaling the smoke spasmodically and screwing up his eyes.
13 The sea of history was not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previously.
14 Masses of Negroes stood idle, or, if they worked spasmodically, were never sure of pay; and if perchance they received pay, squandered the new thing thoughtlessly.
Example Sentence:
1 The spasmodic coughing in the auditorium annoyed the performers.
2 Accompanying himself with the painfully exact and spasmodic gestures which a machine might have used -- supposing the machine to be a trifle out of order.