convulse

Oil markets could convulse if Tehran disrupted Gulf shipping.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

Then Hipolito’s body began to convulse — a possible seizure.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026

I’m well past that point; some of his stories and novels I’ve read dozens, even hundreds of times, and they can still make me convulse in laughter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025

Supartika was cooking lunch at home in a mountainous village famed for its rice, when without warning, she felt the earth beneath her convulse.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

He was very thin and perpetually astonished and somewhat gap-toothed, and his manner of talking alone was enough to convulse them, and he enjoyed it.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

The enigmatic trumpets sounded at the film’s beginning re-enter, their meaning now terribly clear; the orchestra convulses and collapses, and Alex marches upstairs, shown in an aerial shot punctuated with doleful timpani.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

For the next five minutes, she convulses, flings her arms violently, pounds at her legs, and runs in circles, until, with the last note of Stravinsky’s score, she falls, like a stone.

From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2023

A shudder convulses the picture when Mollie, who’s diabetic, falls gravely and suspiciously ill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

The smash-hit Broadway show is about a teenager who perpetuates a cruel lie, one that convulses a grieving family.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021

Sweat drips down my face and chin as my stomach convulses.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

The markets convulsed upon reading the Bank of England's decision to put rates on hold.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

In 2001, I was a college freshman at New York University, and watched as the twin towers fell and the country convulsed in fear and rage.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026

The cases stem from the aftermath of huge, sometimes violent pro-democracy protests that convulsed Hong Kong from 2019.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

Britain has been convulsed by occasional protests over the issue, usually following an alleged criminal incident by a migrant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

Her body convulsed, but she tried not to make a sound.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

Looking at the cauldron of conflicts convulsing the world, the question is ever more pressing as to whether effective action is possible to stop the damage being done or ensure accountability when it does.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“I’m not feeling so well,” he said, before sliding down and convulsing.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Boutros said that when she heard the news of his death "I don't know what happened to me. I collapsed on the ground and was convulsing".

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

Last December, a Unitree bot fell over and started convulsing at a demonstration, drawing online mockery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

A group encircled the convulsing girl at once, eager to assist in whatever way possible.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri