Hmmm. I can think of another word-similar but not quite the same as "spasmodically" - to describe Mad Nad and her blogging, but apparently the word's not politically correct these days. ❋ Unknown (2010)
1943: Letters are coming in spasmodically while parcels arrive fairly regularly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The green barbet calls spasmodically throughout December, but, as a rule, only in the afternoon. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)
The green barbets also call spasmodically throughout the month, chiefly in the early morning and the late afternoon, but the only note uttered by the coppersmith is a soft _wow_. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)
But the burning brimstone went up his nostrils and into his lungs, causing him to cough spasmodically. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I still see my two sisters spasmodically and we have an amicable relationship. ❋ Unknown (2012)
He spasmodically ripped and tore with his fangs for a space. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I struggled on, spasmodically, instinctively, and was barely half conscious when I felt myself caught by the shoulders and hauled over the gunwale of a boat. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The projection was an abstracted human head, spasmodically twitching in a sort of half-nod. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Lilian, clutching the railing so spasmodically that a bruising hurt was left in her finger-ends for days, gazed horror-stricken at a yellow-haired, wild-eyed giant whom she recognized as the man who was to be her husband. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Bâtard's body twitched with the shock, threshed the ground spasmodically for a moment, and went suddenly limp. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Most of his teeth are missing and he drools profusely and stutters spasmodically when excited. ❋ Michael Gillan Maxwell (2012)
His throat worked spasmodically, but made no sound, while he struggled with all his body, convulsed with the effort to rid himself of the incommunicable something that strained for utterance. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He laughed softly at first, but he accompanied each stroke of the oars with spasmodically increasing glee. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Not only is there the creepy age difference in that movie, but his dancing seems to consist entirely of spasmodically moving his left leg and raising his left arm in a pointing gesture. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At times, all joined in, the control of the quietest breaking down before the wave of excitement and fear that swept spasmodically over all of them. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The unexpectedness of the crushing hurt of it caused him to yelp and at the same time instinctively and spasmodically to pull back with all his strength. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As he lost control, his jaws spasmodically wrenched apart, and deep throaty vibrations issued forth, too low in the register of sound for human ear to catch. ❋ Unknown (2010)
DVD Focus 'The Limey' (1999) Steven Soderbergh directed and Lem Dobbs wrote this slyly funny, spasmodically violent film noir in which the title character, a white-haired obsessive named Wilson (Terence Stamp), shows up in Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2012)
The bird jerked spasmodically and sprayed blood on the alter, the sheriff and the children as the fat man looked beatifically up to the ceiling and said, “May our lord accept this blood sacrifice as an atonement for our sins!” ❋ Hugh Barlow (2011)
