SPASM in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for SPASM, such as:
1. not the occasional spasm of any sort.
2. That bloodless lip quivered to a temporary spasm.
3. Danglars felt a dreadful spasm dart through his heart.
4. A muscular spasm in the coronary artery can cause a heart attack.
5. The child stopped for an instant, had a spasm of fright and began to scream.
2. That bloodless lip quivered to a temporary spasm.
3. Danglars felt a dreadful spasm dart through his heart.
4. A muscular spasm in the coronary artery can cause a heart attack.
5. The child stopped for an instant, had a spasm of fright and began to scream.
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Meanings and Examples of SPASM
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spasm
n. a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
n. (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel)
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1 A spasm of pain contorted his features; he threw his hands out in front of him, staggered, and then, with a hoarse cry, fell heavily upon the floor.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
2 A spasm made the ribs contract; blood oozed.
3 not the occasional spasm of any sort.
4 The agony of those contorted limbs struck me with a spasm of pain and blurred my eyes with tears.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
Context Highlight In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
5 Finally, on the top corridor, which ran outside three untenanted bedrooms, he again was seized with a spasm of merriment.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
Context Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
6 His dark, handsome, aquiline features were convulsed into a spasm of vindictive hatred, which had set his dead face in a terribly fiendish expression.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
7 I kept my eyes fixed on Lucy, as did Van Helsing, and we saw a spasm as of rage flit like a shadow over her face; the sharp teeth champed together.
8 The child stopped for an instant, had a spasm of fright and began to scream.
9 A spasm of rage gripped his throat for a few moments and then passed, leaving after it a sharp sensation of thirst.
10 The elder woman grew pale beneath the coarse powder that daubed her cheeks, and her dry lips twitched with a spasm of pain.
11 A key is thrown in, which unlocks the door, and in a spasm of rapture he tears off his chains and rushes away to find and rescue his lady love.
12 As I spoke he gave my wrist a convulsive grip; the smile on his lips froze: apparently a spasm caught his breath.
13 That bloodless lip quivered to a temporary spasm.
14 He had just expired, with clinched hands, his mouth in a spasm of agony, and his hair on end in the sweat of death.
15 Danglars felt a dreadful spasm dart through his heart.
Example Sentence:
1 And then a spasm constricted her mouth for an instant: as it passed away she turned and left the room, and so did I.
2 A muscular spasm in the coronary artery can cause a heart attack.