convulse

Example Sentences

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In late September 2008, as the world and Britain especially was convulsed by its biggest ever financial crisis, the Conservative Party published an obscure pamphlet titled "Reconstruction".

From BBC

France is far from the only European country convulsed by strikes in recent months over wages and other demands, as nations grapple with the fallout of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

From Washington Post

As Israel is convulsed by ongoing protests against the far-right government, primarily due to its proposed judicial changes, and with ongoing Israeli-Palestinian violence there currently appears little room for compromise or any such appeasement.

From BBC

Proponents are eager to see it expand, but in the wake of Covid, with the economy convulsed and resources thin, expansion has been difficult.

From New York Times

In Guantánamo, in Kingston, in Caracas, in Santo Domingo, seismographs registered the quake in mathematical figures while residents of each city felt the ground convulsing for themselves.

From Salon