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

At such times he would fancy that his mother had died, and he would be convulsed with sorrow, breaking unexpectedly into a rousing college song.

From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Gilbert, Paul T. (Paul Thomas)

Mr. Whitehead seemed to be convulsed with uncontrollable laughter.

From Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches by Baring, Maurice

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

I have heard many of the traditions which are very current, but all such hyperboles, that were I to give one, the reader would be convulsed with laughter.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827 by Various