Words similar to spasms

Example sentences for: spasms

How can you use “spasms” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

A policeman suffers tension-caused muscle spasms his wife relieves by massage.
Jordan, like Greene, is too sensitive to his characters' vexations--to their colorful spasms of pique.
It seems to me that the political correctness movement is a natural descendant of the recurrent spasms of prudery that have assaulted our language over the centuries.
He also falls in love with a married woman, Mona, the embodiment of Sex--the kind of woman who sends men into spasms of uncontrollable lust, such that they'd kill their good buddies or drink themselves into an early grave.
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.