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
She seemed to be convulsed by some demoniac power; a ghastly dream seemed to have seized her in a moment of higher consciousness.
From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
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
To read a Mass over him I thought he would, and to be convulsed in the reading it, and some strange thing to have gone out with a great noise through the doorway.
From The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays by Gregory, Lady
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
