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:

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.
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.
A policeman suffers tension-caused muscle spasms his wife relieves by massage.
The action comes in jarring spasms.