be convulsed
Example Sentences
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Ms. Wesley said she had no doubt about the trial’s outcome, even as she worried that her city could once again be convulsed by unrest.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2021
There were now indications that all Italy would be convulsed with a repetition of the old struggle.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard
And then suddenly he was nearly minded to turn and run for it, and his features seemed to him to be convulsed.
From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
He was of grave and sober demeanor, and never smiled, even while causing his hearers to be convulsed with laughter.
From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
His sense of humor was keen, and, between his professional horror of General Temple’s methods and the utter absurdity of the whole thing, he would be convulsed with silent laughter.
From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot
