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Example sentences for: spasm

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If it is just the spasm of sex or the drunkenness of drink, and then the drab morning after, there is no meaning to the millennium.
However, the success of these medical interventions is most commonly defined by angiographic resolution of the "no-reflow" phenomenon (an acute reduction in coronary flow less than Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction [TIMI] 2 in the absence of dissection, thrombus, spasm, or high-grade residual stenosis at the original target lesion).
But whereas Borges at his best elicits from readers a shudder of metaphysical terror, and Calvino stimulates a spasm of epistemological ecstasy, Stoppard consistently induces in his audiences a frisson of self-congratulatory pleasure.
That was the spasm of sex and the drunkenness of drink.
The coda lasts nearly 40 minutes and is mostly talk and cleanup, the rhythms growing more relaxed until a final, incongruous spasm of violence--whereupon the surviving soldiers pack their gear and motor off to another South Pacific battle.