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Example sentences for "spasms"

Lexicographically close words:
sparso; spas; spasm; spasmodic; spasmodically; spastic; spat; spate; spatha; spathe
  1. I don't propose to go orf into spasms over the present sitooashun.

  2. The spasms of anguish and the heroism of endurance were but the passing incidents of a gymnastic show.

  3. But hatred could only be gratified by spasms of brief indulgence, and the animal passions also required something ever new to galvanise their decrepitude.

  4. After that for the third, fourth, fifth and sixth spasms neither side got a look in, although three hopefuls from each college went boldly to the front, only to be cut down in their youth, before crossing the Rubicon.

  5. In the Bukovina, a young woman, in the vicinity of Radautz, died of spasms of the heart.

  6. Artificial respiration was continued for an hour afterwards, and the life of the patient was saved, although the muscular spasms continued to some extent for six days.

  7. Spasms of the heart, recovery after supposed death from, 176.

  8. Spasms and convulsions are produced by an explosion of the salt and sulphur with the animal spirits.

  9. After spasms of gaiety came childish outbursts of rage, or else she sat on the ground dreaming before the fire with her head down and her hands clasping her knees, more inert than a torpid adder.

  10. Both are subject to frequent and violent spasms or epileptic fits.

  11. They scream so loudly while going into the spasms that he can not dwell near other people.

  12. Pierced to the heart, it was struggling with dreadful spasms whose aftershocks knocked Conseil off his feet.

  13. The sick man's breathing was labored, and muscle spasms quivered in his face.

  14. Being constantly on guard, and always watching for objects of alarm, and suspicious of dangers in disguise, he has had no difficulty in maintaining a condition of permanent fright, which has worked itself off in spasms of shying.

  15. Spasms that produce poems like this, must last from five to seven hours a day, through six days of every week, and four weeks of every month, until the work shall be finished.

  16. The convulsions of the Douranees and the spasms of the Ghilzyes were regarded by him as the accompaniments only of those infantine fevers which were inseparable from the existence of the tribes.

  17. The tract of country which, after the capture of Khelat, had been annexed, by the fiat of the Indian Government, to the territory of Shah Soojah, was perpetually breaking out into fierce spasms of unrest.

  18. Under the Barukzyes such a course would have been worse than useless, for their spasms of painful unrest were pleasing to the Sirdars.

  19. You are to conceive me, then, sitting in my little gallery room, shaken by these continual spasms of cannon, and with my eye more or less singly fixed on the imaginary figure of my dear James Payn.

  20. I think that is my great boast; and it seems a little thing alongside of your Gleams of Memory illustrated by spasms of arthritic gout.

  21. Death may quickly occur from continuous spasms of the muscles of the throat.

  22. Prostration or extreme depression, or sometimes involuntary spasms or contractions of muscles occur.

  23. It sometimes follows Spasmodic Colic, in which there is first spasms due to the irritations set up by the presence of undigested matter, and subsequently this food decomposes and forms gas.

  24. Epilepsy and apoplexy were understood as spasms inside the head.

  25. In 1692 in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts, some hysterical girls showing strange spasms and sounds charged they had been bewitched by certain other residents.

  26. Sometimes the local irritation is considerable, or there are spasms or convulsions, in which case the practice is to lance the gums.

  27. After vomiting and purging have ceased, if prostration and spasms are urgent, give 1/2 or 1/4 doses.

  28. He never had any spasms about something that could never occur.

  29. Pickron's advice, and on Monday morning everybody was much cheered up by hearing that Farnum's spasms had ceased and that he had come to himself.

  30. The spasms began at midday, before three o'clock the doctor came, and at six Lizotchka fell asleep and slept soundly till two o'clock in the morning.

  31. I ate very little, but only fancy, I began having a sharp pain at once --spasms .

  32. I don't feel the spasms now, but there is no sleeping.

  33. Clonic spasms of the whole body and convulsive movements of the limbs are not very infrequent.

  34. It consists of painful tonic spasms of the muscles of the arms and feet.

  35. If the patient lives more than two or three days the tonic spasm partly gives way to increased reflex irritability, in which a noise, jar, or draught of air may give rise to clonic and tonic spasms in the muscles affected.

  36. Hysterical convulsions and spasms may also be produced, both immediately and as a more remote result, usually in persons predisposed.

  37. No spasms are like the spasms of expiring liberty, and no wailing such as her convulsions extort.

  38. The loving eyes that watched her saw signs of amendment, but early on Monday, July 16th, the spasms recurred.

  39. That spring Louise was attacked by spasms of the heart.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spasms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ague; chorea; jactitation; palsy; quaking; quavering; quivering; shakes; shaking; shivering; shuddering; spasm; trembling; vibration