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

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

I have no doubt that even now the learned judge is strenuously preparing his inimitable flashes of humour, and that, like the rest of the world, I should allow myself to be convulsed by them.

From The Great Adventure by Bennett, Arnold

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

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