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
• Hot black smoke socked her in the face; the staircase had become a glowing, spastic frenzy.
  — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
• Hot black smoke socked her in the face; the staircase had become a glowing, spastic frenzy.
  — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
• In a spastic neonatal sequence, our young hero flickers between both.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 21 Aug. 2020
• Fast and jittery — even spastic at times — his solos were a unique collision of punk, blues and speed-metal.
  — Dallas News, 25 May 2022
• Rick Hoyt was born a spastic quadriplegic with cerebral palsy and cannot walk or talk.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• Ocando was born with spastic quadriplegia, a subset of cerebral palsy.
  — Drake Hills, azcentral, 27 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Cameron has spastic quadriplegia, a severe form of cerebral palsy that impacts his ability to control movement in his legs and arms.
  — Sara Dinatale, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 July 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• Ellingen, 37, has athetoid spastic cerebral palsy because of complications at birth.
  — Harm Venhuizen, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The lineup immediately proved too much for TCU's spastic defense to handle.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• His daughter, Jessica, was born with cerebral palsy and diagnosed as a spastic quadriplegic.
  — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2025
• 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
• Rich was born a spastic quadriplegic with cerebral palsy, CBS Boston reports.
  — April Siese, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2021
• The mood lighting suddenly shifted to a spastic, woozy display of neon pinks, blues, and greens as an advertisement for the latest energy drink consumed the shuttle’s interior.
  — Verge Staff, The Verge, 31 Oct. 2018
• 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
• Along with the fireworks there were actual fires, blasts of smoke, streams of confetti, retina-blurring lighting, spastic animations, brain-numbing predictability and very bad singing.
  — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2017
• She was diagnosed with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy at age 1, according to the family's YouCaring page.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 6 July 2018
• 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