Sentence examples for with a spasm from inspiring English sources

AMERICA is greeting the New Year with a spasm of nostalgia for an old one.

In a matter of seconds he shuddered with a spasm of pleasure and came all over her face.

Okruashvili, the prosecutor general, gets field reports from outlying cities that judges and cops have responded to the new anticorruption regime with a spasm of bribe-taking.

I wrestled with the tubes for a few blocks, maintaining my pathetic stride, and finally ripped them open with a spasm.

Ms. Mahoney opens the story with a spasm of abrupt, unsettling violence that sets an uneasy mood that endures for the run of the movie.

JERUSALEM, Oct. 17 — President Bush expressed optimism on Wednesday that the Israelis and Palestinians could negotiate a peace agreement as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended four days of talks here with a spasm of discord between the sides.

I don't want to let him down, and my left biceps flutters like a hummingbird with the D.T.'s, a spasm of anxiety about the imminent task at hand, small-time though it may be.

The first set opened with a coordinated spasm.

The fish surprised her with a sharp spasm, flipped into the water, and bolted off.

That was not true for Lindley, who woke up with a neck spasm that required treatment before she teed off.

Erstad was 0 for 1 yesterday before leaving the game with a muscle spasm in his left rib cage.