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
S: And We have made great mountains in the earth lest it might be convulsed with them, and We have made in it wide ways that they may follow a right direction.
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf
As soon as one begins to be convulsed, several others are affected.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles
He was of grave and sober demeanor, and never smiled, even while causing his hearers to be convulsed with laughter.
From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
His sense of humor was keen, and, between his professional horror of General Temple’s methods and the utter absurdity of the whole thing, he would be convulsed with silent laughter.
From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot
