spasmodically

How To Use spasmodically In A Sentence

• The green barbets also call spasmodically throughout the month, chiefly in the early morning and the late afternoon, but the only note uttered by the coppersmith is a soft _wow_. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
• He coughed spasmodically before gasping out his next words.
• But the burning brimstone went up his nostrils and into his lungs, causing him to cough spasmodically. To Build a Fire
• This much mental electricity should be able to run a small city, but instead I'm more like a cut power line, arcing and sparking spasmodically.
• My hair bristled and I felt all my muscles twitch spasmodically.
• DVD Focus 'The Limey' (1999) Steven Soderbergh directed and Lem Dobbs wrote this slyly funny, spasmodically violent film noir in which the title character, a white-haired obsessive named Wilson (Terence Stamp), shows up in Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Soderbergh Goes 'Haywire' With a Fast, Stylish Thriller
• Her involvement with the organization continued spasmodically for fifteen years.
• My hair bristled and I felt all my muscles twitch spasmodically.
• Last of all, when the other channels for the escape of the surplus nerve-force have been filled to overflowing, a yet further and less-used group of muscles is spasmodically affected: the head is thrown back and the spine bent inwards -- there is a slight degree of what medical men call opisthotonos. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
• The green barbets also call spasmodically throughout the month, chiefly in the early morning and the late afternoon, but the only note uttered by the coppersmith is a soft _wow_. A Bird Calendar for Northern India