How to Use paroxysm in a Sentence

paroxysm

noun

• He went into paroxysms of laughter.
• Still, Abreu isn’t the player that inspires fist pumps or a paroxysm of groans from the rest of the room.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Everything pushed to paroxysm, to the very sources of the tragic.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2017
• This alone would send many in-laws into paroxysms of joy.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Yes, my son falls into paroxysms of despair over the feel of his socks.
  — Nicole Graev Lipson, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
• Lenin fell off it, hurled to the ground by the townsfolk of Lanchkhuti in the first joyful paroxysm of their liberation.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Just the equivalent of a few grains of salt can send you into sudden paroxysms of heaven; a few more grains will kill you.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
• Diana was just 36, and her death sent Britain into a paroxysm of grief at her loss and rage against the royal family.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• When the fan was turned on, the strips fluttered, which sent the English bulldog into a paroxysm of both agitation and joy.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 14 Oct. 2019
• This, in turn, touched off a paroxysm of media takes about whether such confrontations broke the bounds of civility.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2021
• The result is an epic paroxysm which blows out a massive wave of material, expanding in a sphere around the star.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2012
• For the left, this is just the latest paroxysm of a dysfunctional and doomed capitalism.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• The resulting paroxysm of an action sequence, one that would be easy to adapt to other movie genres, is novel and great.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2015
• That may be sufficient to save the lives of many, either from the paroxysm itself or any subsequent tsunami.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• As these images played to a global audience riveted by the drama at the airport, the West, in a paroxysm of regret, opened its arms to Afghan refugees.
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• Even with all that intensity of eruption, the paroxysm was over in only 50 minutes.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2015
• That match included a paroxysm of goals — five in 30 minutes — and then a barren stretch that taunted both teams, one more than another.
  — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2022
• And every few months, photos of Princess Diana in sweatshirts and bike shorts will send the fashionable and the online into paroxysms of delight.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• But the paroxysm convulsing the country in its 75th year is wholly internal.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 27 July 2023
• Sittenfeld sets her action in 2018, decades after that paroxysm of genius has passed.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• Thinking about my mother, at home without me, sent me into paroxysms of tears – big, rolling sobs that welled up from someplace deep and uncharted.
  — Various Staff Writers, Special Correspondents, and Special Contributors, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• And in these early stages, both customers and analysts appear to see the delays as normal—and preferable to combustive paroxysm.
  — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 6 July 2018
• From the moment the signal is detected, everyone has up to 10 minutes to react before the paroxysm arrives.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• The events themselves took a matter of minutes to unfold in a paroxysm of one-sided gunfire that snuffed out more than a dozen lives, each one of them a new martyr in Northern Ireland’s somber annals of loss.
  — Alan Cowell, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2022
• But nothing prepared her for what happened on Aug. 26 in Salesforce.com Inc., when its quarterly results ignited a paroxysm of buying that pushed the shares 26% higher in a day.
  — Sarah Ponczek, Bloomberg.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• The army’s withdrawal from the talks deals a blow to the attempts to decisively end the war, which has released a paroxysm of violence and chaos that have killed hundreds of people and displaced millions more.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• Hamas’s big breakthrough was the paroxysm of violence during the second intifada after the diplomatic crisis caused by the failure of the Camp David summit in the summer of 2000.
  — Hussein Ibish, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023
• Much better, the patient exclaimed, but then exploded into a paroxysm of coughing.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
• In July 2019, a paroxysm killed a hiker and injured several others.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• And then came Syria’s equalizer, sending the crowds into paroxysms of delight and disbelief.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024