Intermittently stopping and starting.
Occurring in spells and often abruptly.
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Examples for "spasmodic "
Examples for "spasmodic "
1 The fire in the cooking-stove in the room crackled at spasmodic intervals.
2 But there's clearly some code or sequence in their movements, however spasmodic .
3 All her movements were spasmodic ; she was on the verge of hysteria.
4 With his one good arm he shook the child in spasmodic jerks.
5 A spasmodic shudder shook the heavy body and it began to sink.
1 The wind had abated its violence; coming now in fitful , virulent puffs.
2 The wind soughed through the pines and cedars in a fitful manner.
3 The girl moaned in her fitful sleep and Miss Smith soothed her.
4 Some fitful sleep came to her at last in the morning hours.
5 They had a few fitful naps throughout the remainder of the night.
6 The fitful firelight only served to emphasize the intensity of surrounding darkness.
7 In the fitful light Suth glimpsed fallen bodies, broken rock and equipment.
8 The sail, scarcely filled by the fitful breeze, flapped against the mast.
9 The light was fitful , and dark shadows flickered on the dosshouse walls.
10 A green, fitful illumination was cast by lights set in the walls.
11 From the ballroom, faint and fitful , came the music of a waltz.
12 Nature looked disturbed and fitful , and the ship responded to her mood.
13 And, in a fitful or superficial sense, he must have been so.
14 The Bertolucci is unbelievably squalid and Starting Over is fitful at best.
15 Here there is a fitful lamp which makes one prefer the darkness.
16 Her night had been fitful , plagued by wraithlike dreams not fully formed.
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