Sentence examples for brief spasm from inspiring English sources

Sikes kills Nancy accidentally, in a brief spasm of rage.

In 1994, soccer enjoyed a brief spasm of chicness when the unspeakable happened.

Apart from a brief spasm of rioting in 2011, that did not happen.

A brief spasm of fighting killed one policeman and wounded 20 others, mostly civilians, and Mr. Ghani had his way.

Police officers in riot gear threw up a protective phalanx around City Hall this afternoon after a brief spasm of street violence by youths angry over the shooting of an unarmed teen-ager during a police narcotics investigation Tuesday night.

Last November, confusion, uncertainty and a brief spasm of investor panic ensued when the government of Dubai abruptly notified its creditors that it would delay interest payments on the $23 billion in debt that Dubai World owed creditors.

This time, darkness, violence, desire have become matters to discuss calmly, and shown only in brief spasms.

Mellors has had a wife who, after one of his brief spasms of wordless intermission, would bring herself to orgasm.

There had been brief spasms of official vengeance and retribution before: J. M. Chivington's and George Armstrong Custer's savage massacres of Cheyennes in 1864 and 1868 were examples.

Brief spasms of action give way to hours of slumped inactivity, during which a lens is changed or the lighting reconfigured.

There have been brief spasms of unrest — like the protests by university students in London several months ago — but nothing yet that has come close to replicating the reaction to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's program of liberalization in the 1980s.