convulse

The author organizes shocks into three categories that will resonate with readers who have watched the world economy convulse in the past year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Then Hipolito’s body began to convulse — a possible seizure.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026

I’m well past that point; some of his stories and novels I’ve read dozens, even hundreds of times, and they can still make me convulse in laughter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025

The development is the latest in the controversy surrounding the governor, Riad Salameh, who is being investigated for corruption as an economic meltdown and financial collapse convulse the tiny Mediterranean nation.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

She's thinking perhaps that she can outlast Haymitch, who’s starting to convulse on the ground.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

When he eventually explodes into thinking, delivering a monologue of disordered intellectual half-thoughts and rhetorical tics, the stage convulses in Lewis Carroll absurdity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024

Lopez Ochoa, who collaborated with the director Nancy Meckler, establishes early on that something is amiss: Veiga convulses and sways off-balance; her followers catch her.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022

As political uncertainty convulses his home, Hafnaoui will be preparing for another race in Tokyo — the 800-meter freestyle that begins later this week.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2021

He could not conceive of going on as normal as the nation convulses, he said, and started searching for a way to help bring the county back together.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2019

The black heap convulses and then sinks down.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

On Feb. 4, 1794, while the country was convulsed in the violent political struggle known as the Terror, the National Convention abolished slavery in all French colonies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

In 2001, I was a college freshman at New York University, and watched as the twin towers fell and the country convulsed in fear and rage.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026

The cases stem from the aftermath of huge, sometimes violent pro-democracy protests that convulsed Hong Kong from 2019.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

That exchange didn't happen, of course, because when the two men came side-by-side, the pair of them seemed lost for words as Hampden convulsed all around them.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025

Six years later they discovered that Kaan was the focus of a devastating war that convulsed the Maya city-state for more than a century.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

“I’m not feeling so well,” he said, before sliding down and convulsing.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

One of her frustrations is the "lack of knowledge" about epilepsy among employers and it is not just "flashing lights, on the floor, convulsing".

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

Boutros said that when she heard the news of his death "I don't know what happened to me. I collapsed on the ground and was convulsing".

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

The man’s eyes rolled back in his head and he started convulsing.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026

What happened with the Resistance that was so horrible she can’t speak of them without stuttering and convulsing?

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir