spasmodically
IPA: spæzmˈɔdɪkɫi
adverb
- In a spasmodic manner; intermittently.
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Examples of "spasmodically" in Sentences
- 1943: Letters are coming in spasmodically while parcels arrive fairly regularly.
- The projection was an abstracted human head, spasmodically twitching in a sort of half-nod.
- The green barbet calls spasmodically throughout December, but, as a rule, only in the afternoon.
- But the burning brimstone went up his nostrils and into his lungs, causing him to cough spasmodically.
- The unexpectedness of the crushing hurt of it caused him to yelp and at the same time instinctively and spasmodically to pull back with all his strength.
- The green barbets also call spasmodically throughout the month, chiefly in the early morning and the late afternoon, but the only note uttered by the coppersmith is a soft _wow_.
- Hmmm. I can think of another word-similar but not quite the same as "spasmodically" - to describe Mad Nad and her blogging, but apparently the word's not politically correct these days.
- Not only is there the creepy age difference in that movie, but his dancing seems to consist entirely of spasmodically moving his left leg and raising his left arm in a pointing gesture.
- His throat worked spasmodically, but made no sound, while he struggled with all his body, convulsed with the effort to rid himself of the incommunicable something that strained for utterance.
- DVD Focus 'The Limey' (1999) Steven Soderbergh directed and Lem Dobbs wrote this slyly funny, spasmodically violent film noir in which the title character, a white-haired obsessive named Wilson (Terence Stamp), shows up in Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death.