spasmodically

He laughed spasmodically at the comedian's jokes.

Her phone buzzed spasmodically with notifications.

The old car sputtered spasmodically before finally starting.

She blinked spasmodically when the bright light flashed.

His heart raced spasmodically during the intense workout.

The faulty light flickered spasmodically in the hallway.

The internet connection dropped spasmodically throughout the day.

The baby's cries came spasmodically through the monitor.

His breathing became spasmodically irregular after the race.

The machine beeped spasmodically indicating an error.

She struggled for self-control, and I saw her hands clench and unclench spasmodically. It was dreadfully painful.

Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven.

Then spasmodically she thought of something to say which seemed more intimate.

The toothless gums moved spasmodically, and it threw its face into horrible grimaces.

The door latch clicked spasmodically -- now hospitably, now doubt- fully, as though in anxiety whether it might be admitting friends or duns.

Prissy picked lazily, spasmodically, complaining of her feet, her back, her internal miseries, her complete weariness, until her mother took a cotton stalk to her and whipped her until she screamed.

Tom Slattery owned no slaves, and he and his two oldest boys spasmodically worked their few acres of cotton, while the wife and younger children tended what was supposed to be a vegetable garden.

As the two reports rang out Malbihn dropped his rifle, clutched frantically at his breast, staggered, fell first to his knees and then lunged upon his face. Baynes stiffened. His head flew back spasmodically.

A well-dressed American had come in with two women who swooped and fluttered unselfconsciously around a table. Suddenly, he perceived that he was being watched--whereupon his hand rose spasmodically and arranged a phantom bulge in his necktie.

Now in various ways and on occasion, you can tune into these other realities to some degree - and you do so spasmodically, though in many cases the experience is lost because it does not register physically.