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Example sentences for: spasms

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

The spasms of self-destruction.
Jordan, like Greene, is too sensitive to his characters' vexations--to their colorful spasms of pique.
I was thinking that she could process my body anytime, but Jolie rises above such adolescent spasms.
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."
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.