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
He considered this last an excruciating joke, and permitted himself to be convulsed with laughter for half a minute.
From When God Laughs: and other stories by London, Jack
Adair felt that at any moment the whole island might be convulsed in such a way as to destroy all remaining on it.
From The Three Admirals by Wells, J.R.
I have heard many of the traditions which are very current, but all such hyperboles, that were I to give one, the reader would be convulsed with laughter.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827 by Various
As soon as one begins to be convulsed, several others are affected.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles
