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

It was like the placid sky that precedes the storm—the calm ocean that in a moment may be convulsed by the squall—the couchant lion that on the slightest provocation may be roused to ungovernable rage.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

I thank God I have not those straight ligaments or narrow obligations to the world as to dote on life, or be convulsed and tremble at the name of death. 

From Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation by Whyte, Alexander

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

They need not be convulsed, or writhing, or grimacing; on the contrary, they ought to be quite calm and passionless in their cruel beauty.

From Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Lee, Vernon