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

From the start and all the way through, dancers collapse, convulse and quickly rise so frequently that it seems this sequence of motions is contagious, although the repetition doesn’t gain meaning or emotional resonance.

From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022

His throat tried to throw it back up, his whole body seemed to convulse with it, but his stomach took it, held it, and demanded more.

From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

Lopez Ochoa, who collaborated with the director Nancy Meckler, establishes early on that something is amiss: Veiga convulses and sways off-balance; her followers catch her.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022

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

On Feb. 4, 1794, while the country was convulsed in the violent political struggle known as the Terror, the National Convention abolished slavery in all French colonies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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

At the time, China was convulsed by civil war.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

His little body convulsed in my arms with each sob.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

“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

The man’s eyes rolled back in his head and he started convulsing.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

She coughed, rolling over, and Kaede helped her up onto her hands and knees, her body convulsing as she spit the water out of her lungs.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo