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Example sentences for: spasms

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Perhaps the best backhanded compliment is provided by another New York Times review, this one from the daily paper: Richard Kluger writes that the book has "only occasional spasms of the immodesty that almost by definition infects all who venture into autobiography."
The action comes in jarring spasms.
I was thinking that she could process my body anytime, but Jolie rises above such adolescent spasms.
A policeman suffers tension-caused muscle spasms his wife relieves by massage.
A team of Canadian psychologists believes that Tourette's syndrome--the condition that leads patients to suffer muscular spasms and to blurt out obscenities--may be a psychological rather than a physical disorder.