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