convulsions

Example Sentences

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While experts predict modest employment numbers, disappointing data could send the market back into convulsions.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 8, 2026

In a coffee shop in Greenland's capital Nuuk, Lykke Lynge looked fondly at her four kids as they sipped their hot chocolate, seemingly oblivious to the world's convulsions.

From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026

There's this much reported case of a woman who suffered from convulsions after taking a medicine for diabetes which had a similar sounding name to an analgesic she had been prescribed.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

She said one prison guard had said Navalny was experiencing convulsions and was breathing heavily and coughing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 17, 2025

Among the many symptoms associated with overexposure are blindness, insomnia, kidney failure, hearing loss, cancer, palsies, and convulsions.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson