How to Use spastic in a Sentence

spastic

adjective

• My spastic kick, Russell said, was not pushing the water back but down.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 2 July 2019
• Fans pointed out that the word originates from spastic.
  — Saba Hamedy, NBC News, 13 June 2022
• Fast and jittery — even spastic at times — his solos were a unique collision of punk, blues and speed-metal.
  — Dallas News, 25 May 2022
• Mark, 47, has a spastic quadriplegia form of cerebral palsy.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2018
• Sure enough, Jan does, by all accounts, a good— nay, a great job in the halftime show challenge as a foot-on-the-piano-playing, spastic Lady Gaga.
  — Paul McCallion, Vulture, 8 July 2021
• Rick Hoyt was born a spastic quadriplegic with cerebral palsy and cannot walk or talk.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• In a spastic neonatal sequence, our young hero flickers between both.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 21 Aug. 2020
• Indeed, a trailer of the game resembles the old-timey animations of the past, featuring a spastic bebop-style jazz score.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2017
• By late 1982, thanks in part to the onset of the Reagan-era economic boom, a period of reckless, almost spastic, buying had begun in earnest.
  — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 24 June 2018
• Ocando was born with spastic quadriplegia, a subset of cerebral palsy.
  — Drake Hills, azcentral, 27 Aug. 2019
• Even Tyler, who made a name with brash in-your-face rants, had a moment of vulnerability amid all his spastic posturing.
  — Gerrick D. Kennedy, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• The four-man band is spastic in both their rhythm and presentation--and their goal is to get the crowd mimicking their energetic dance moves with every raucous song.
  — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 6 July 2017
• With Yoel, some signs had always been there: his precocious rolling, for example, came from spastic tensing in his muscles.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• Its nine-speed transmission and herky-jerky adaptive cruise control give the Pilot a spastic freeway ride, and the slightest bit of steering input causes the soft suspension to lean.
  — Jeff Sabatini, Car and Driver, 13 July 2017
• Ahead, experts explain the nuances of living with spastic cerebral palsy.
  — Lauren Sieben, SELF, 22 Mar. 2022
• That franticness is key, as the nerd character is usually portrayed as kind of spastic anyway.
  — Kate Gardner, SELF, 24 Aug. 2018
• Often the first symptom of M.S., the sensation is caused by spastic nerves, according to Rush University.
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF, 19 Apr. 2022
• This will record the hypnic jerks and spastic opening-hand motions that signal my entry into hypnagogia, the first stage of sleep, where thoughts slip free of conscious control.
  — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• And that’s just how most of Fortnite’s pitched battles end—in spastic competitions to raise zig-zagging siege towers, each player looking to gain high ground over (and cover from) the other.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2018
• On Monday afternoon, a spastic red squirrel furrowed and tugged at a wet blanket draped over the rain fly of a red single-person tent ringed with empty containers.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2022
• Inside, projectors bathed two rooms in gray (one wall showed a triptych of black and white video footage featuring the Dazed 100 recipients; on another, their names flashed at a spastic clip).
  — Jenna Marotta, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2016
• Pastrnak glided in on his forehand, touched the puck to shooting position, and at the hash marks, made a spastic pump fake of a high-glove shot that forced Islanders goalie Semyon Varlamov to recoil.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
• Among the tactics, no shtick is simultaneously as eye-catching and absurd as the spastic flail of a perky nylon tube with vaguely human features.
  — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 17 Oct. 2017
• The lineup immediately proved too much for TCU's spastic defense to handle.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2018
• The word spaz, short for the term spastic, is considered offensive in the United Kingdom, while in the United States, it can be defined as the action of losing physical or emotional control.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 June 2022
• The works feature different animals from the digital pantheon of cutsie symbols: a sneering shark, a plump pig, a spastic-looking gecko.
  — Deborah Vankin, latimes.com, 20 May 2017
• His emphatic message is underscored by a booming horn section, spastic percussion and Adams’s soulful singing that gives a fresh spin to the original cut.
  — Stephanie Williams, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
• Bickerstaff hobbled over on his crutches for an extended chat with Okoro, the presumed starting small forward who looked spastic in the first three preseason games.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2021
• The spastic movement coming toward me through the bare birch branches bore a resemblance to the military leap-frog means of approaching an enemy position.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2022
• The injections typically provide relief for about three months and are more effective when treating just a couple of spastic areas.
  — Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF, 16 May 2022

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