Get to know Spasm better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like cramp or symptom.
Spasm meaning
- A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.
- A violent, excruciating seizure of pain.
- A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion.
Synonyms of Spasm
Using Spasm
- The main meaning on this page is: A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ. | A violent, excruciating seizure of pain. | A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion.
- Useful related words include: cramp, muscle spasm, symptom, constriction.
- In the example corpus, spasm often appears in combinations such as: spasm of, back spasm, muscle spasm.
Context around Spasm
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spasm
- In this selection, "spasm" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, muscle, hip, neck, per, paranoid and blocking stand out and add context to how "spasm" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a back spasm but ole and a back spasm just five. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spasm" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spasm
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s like a spasm or twitch. (7 words)
How do you get rid of a lower back spasm? (10 words)
A spasm of violence convulsed the school just as classes began. (11 words)
It took England some time to adapt without the experienced Cross, who suffered a back spasm just five balls into the match and her consistency was missed in the powerplay as Wolvaardt and Lara Goodall notched an opening stand of 50. (41 words)
Residents of Haiti's capital scrambled for safety on March 9 following the latest spasm of gang violence, with a U.N. group warning of a "city under siege" after armed attackers targeted the presidential palace and police headquarters. (39 words)
England will give Jos Buttler a fitness Test this morning after yesterdayРђЎs back injury/spasm and will bring Zak Crawley in to bat at six and give Ollie Pope the gloves at seven if he fails it. (37 words)
How do you get rid of a lower back spasm? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
James (left calf contusion) and Davis (left adductor/hip spasm) were once again available after being listed on the pregame injury report.
Tatum is dealing with a left hip contusion while Smart is on the injury report with a left-side neck spasm, per the Celtics.
What we are really witnessing is an infantile spasm in defence of a failing status quo.
A helpless Céline is given nasal spray and turned on her side as she goes through a spasm.
It took England some time to adapt without the experienced Cross, who suffered a back spasm just five balls into the match and her consistency was missed in the powerplay as Wolvaardt and Lara Goodall notched an opening stand of 50.
Residents of Haiti's capital scrambled for safety on March 9 following the latest spasm of gang violence, with a U.N. group warning of a "city under siege" after armed attackers targeted the presidential palace and police headquarters.
One week, it was tendonitis, the next it was a muscle spasm.
On the plane home, he was so hungover that his body went into “spasm” and he “threw” a soft drink all over the ceiling.
According to Lutz, each spasm of violence seemed to begin with a death that locals found difficult to explain.
A spasm of violence convulsed the school just as classes began.
England will give Jos Buttler a fitness Test this morning after yesterdayРђЎs back injury/spasm and will bring Zak Crawley in to bat at six and give Ollie Pope the gloves at seven if he fails it.
Set in 1981 during the country’s border conflict with communist-backed Angola, Oliver Hermanus’s film manages an unflinching portrait of a society in spasm; paranoid and brutish and largely screaming at itself.
That spasm in America's epidemic of gun violence gave new impetus the debate on controlling firearms, prompting marches across the country and a fresh round of hand-wringing in cable news studios.
The danger, if the child became excited, was that the swollen, inflamed epiglottis would begin to spasm, blocking the windpipe.
The midfielder missed the final pre-season game against AC Milan due to a back spasm, but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has confirmed he is fit for Sunday.
The spasm of global displacement demands that the U.S. accept more refugees, not less.
The symptoms of sunstroke may include nausea, rapid heartbeat, muscle spasm, hallucinations and disorientation, lack of sweating despite high fever, loss of consciousness and fainting," the police said.
How do you get rid of a lower back spasm?
It can also include muscle spasm, runny nose, sneezing, cold chills, diarrhoea, cough, difficulty sleeping and even pain.
It’s like a spasm or twitch.
Common combinations with spasm
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- spasm of 7×
- back spasm 3×
- muscle spasm 3×
- spasm and 3×
- spasm in 2×
- the spasm 2×