Paroxysms

Word PAROXYSMS
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Definitions and meanings of "Paroxysms"

What do we mean by paroxysms?

A random or sudden outburst (of activity).

An explosive event during a volcanic eruption.

A sudden recurrence of a disease, such as a seizure or a coughing fit.

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The word "paroxysms" in example sentences

Mr. King defended his decision to hold hearings by attacking what he described as "paroxysms of rage and hysteria" from special-interest groups that opposed the inquiry. ❋ By ALESSANDRA STANLEY (2011)

At midnight, I was in paroxysms of terror and my flashlight died. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The folks who gave you unstinting approval of warrantless wiretapping, who applauded the Bush administration's surveillance on anti-war protesters, and who whooped in paroxysms of patriotic ecstasy as the Department of Justice under John Ashcroft loosened restrictions of the FBI to monitor and investigate "terror" groups such as people attending worship services at mosques or going to pot-lucks at Quaker meetings, are aghast over the revelation that the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring "right-wing extremist activity;" you know, like the people who blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City and planted bombs at the Olympics in Atlanta and targeted doctors who performed abortions for assassination. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We’re at Disney World, where, you know, if you don’t bounce around in paroxysms of joy they send the dogs after you. ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, not to be too lugubrious, I am improving; that is, the paroxysms of this trouble are less severe, though I am far from being relieved of the burden. ❋ Orville Dewey (1838)

By today's standards, only the most fanatic Catholics would experience the kind of paroxysms of religious outrage that Madonna's "Like a Virgin" video and tour first evoked a quarter of a century ago. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dr. Givings treats women for hysteria by inducing "paroxysms" with the newly invented electric vibrator in the belief that the procedure "cleans the womb" of built-up fluids - a medical theory that Rapport delivers with a straight face, which makes it all the more comical. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It would leave him in "paroxysms" of artistic delight. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If one were to create a Richter scale for civil societies, and identify at what point they melt down into the kind of paroxysms of ❋ Unknown (2010)

“It belongs to the history of drunkenness to remark, that its paroxysms occur, like the paroxysms of many diseases, at certain periods, and after longer or shorter intervals.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

In Israel it would have sent the entire nation into paroxysms of national mourning. ❋ Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (2011)

Wallenstein was afflicted with paroxysms of true German sorrow and contrition. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The condition of tetanus, which had marked his paroxysms, simplified matters, and he made but one test. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Small waves, with spiteful foaming crests, continually broke over me and into my mouth, sending me off into more strangling paroxysms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jane suffered paroxysms of guilt at the idea that she was the one who had sent them all to their deaths. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

The abiding instability, along with paroxysms of sectarian violence over the past several months, come as several mostly secular political leaders say Egypt isn't ready to complete its transition to democracy November's scheduled presidential elections. ❋ Matt Bradley (2011)

They won the ACC tournament and will likely crush everything in their path, causing Dick Vitale to go in to paroxysms of Duke-adoration. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sixteen years later, an entry records that "both my wife and myself are seized with the wildest paroxysms of grief" as the relationship dissolved, following the revelation of her numerous adulterous affairs. ❋ Stuart Isacoff (2011)

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