Sample Sentences for
spasmodic
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    —I wonder if your eyes and ears ever make anything save spasmodic contact with your brain.†  (source)
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    Then he gave Piper another spasmodic wink.†  (source)
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    She sits and her cane flexes against the gravel and the boy clicks his buttons in spasmodic flurries.†  (source)
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    As he reached inside the door and flipped the light switch, I managed with a complex but spasmodic movement to throw the towel over the picture so (I hoped) he couldn't see it.†  (source)
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    But at other times, she would gyrate and make grunting sounds and spasmodically sweep her books and pens to the floor.†  (source)
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    In the meanwhile, as the thing is difficult to find in France, and your abbe is not probably disposed to make a journey to Paris on my account, I must continue to use Monsieur Planche's anti-spasmodics; and mint and Hoffman's drops are among my favorite remedies.†  (source)
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    She steps right up to it, flips her goggles down to protect her face from the heat The Rat Thing's legs stop their spasmodic movements, as though waiting for her.†  (source)
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    Her fingers worked spasmodically.†  (source)
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    There was something desperate, almost insane, about the sharp spasmodic yelps to which they now gave utterance.†  (source)
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    But the burning brimstone went up his nostrils and into his lungs, causing him to cough spasmodically.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    Here and there through the city, machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs barking on lone farms.†  (source)
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    That day by the pond had witnessed its last spasmodic flicker.†  (source)
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