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
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
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
This is the class which maintains an air of portentous solemnity in public ceremonials, and is liable at any moment to be convulsed by a question of precedence at a Government House dinner.
From Australian Writers by Byrne, Desmond
Her whole being seemed to be convulsed in one concentrated desire.
From The Man and the Moment by Glyn, Elinor
