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Example sentences for: spasm

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Finally, when he learns that Judy has been murdered, he can barely breathe, his anguish seems nearly unendurable, but it's only a momentary spasm, he regains his soulless equanimity, and as he quietly intones his last lines--"The greatest pleasure in life [is] the sweet, ever-changing caress of an early evening breeze"--we realize we've witnessed the exquisitely ironic fusion of elegy and despair, the inseparable linking of a brilliant text and a superb performance.
That was the spasm of sex and the drunkenness of drink.
It is likely that mechanical microvascular obstruction is commonly aggravated by secondary spasm and edema due to release of humoral agonists by platelets, and endothelial injury and dysfunction.
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.
3. "Bush had another brief spasm of anti-intellectualism when he stopped a question that referred to a comment from a Harvard professor by retorting, 'consider the source.