Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm.
Occurring in spells and often abruptly.
Синонимы
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Examples for "fitful "
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.
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.
6 At nine o'clock the spasmodic patter of rifles was heard in front.
7 The teeth opened and shut together again with a sudden spasmodic energy.
8 The squeaks and a few spasmodic grunts which succeeded them soon ceased.
9 As we walked on we heard the spasmodic crunching of his hoe.
10 She told her story in a low, spasmodic , and somewhat broken voice.
11 The tommy-gun threw another spasmodic burst at me, way off this time.
12 She crumpled the letter with a sudden, spasmodic clenching of her hand.
13 Coughing and sneezing are sudden and spasmodic expiratory efforts, and generally involuntary.
14 Algitha and her sister made spasmodic remarks, and there were long pauses.
15 A careless, spasmodic hurrying and retarding leads only to flabbiness and inconsequence.
16 That all spasmodic cerebral action is an evil is not perfectly clear.
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