convulsed

Example Sentences

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Convulsed by Covid, can the NHS cope this winter?

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2021

Convulsed with grief and guilt, the little swindler protests pathetically to the chief of police.

From Time Magazine Archive

Convulsed with woe, his soul that shook, On Raghu's son he could not look; Or if he looked with failing eye He could not to the chief reply.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Convulsed with laughter, he returned hastily to the barn; while Jane expressed her feelings, whatever they were, by executing something like a hornpipe before the window.

From He Fell in Love with His Wife by Roe, Edward Payson

Convulsed with passionate grief, many were the wild words which we spoke as we stood around him.

From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James