convulse

The author organizes shocks into three categories that will resonate with readers who have watched the world economy convulse in the past year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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

Armies can move on your words; markets can convulse; diplomacy can unravel.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2022

The phone rang and I felt my nerves convulse.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

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

When he eventually explodes into thinking, delivering a monologue of disordered intellectual half-thoughts and rhetorical tics, the stage convulses in Lewis Carroll absurdity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024

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

As political uncertainty convulses his home, Hafnaoui will be preparing for another race in Tokyo — the 800-meter freestyle that begins later this week.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2021

He convulses then, jerks and judders, jolts and twists and writhes, so much that the whole earth shakes.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

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

That exchange didn't happen, of course, because when the two men came side-by-side, the pair of them seemed lost for words as Hampden convulsed all around them.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025

“Heh heh,” mumbled Holly, in the second before the troll convulsed involuntarily.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

“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

In May of 2023, for example, a worker harvesting corn near Brawley fell behind his colleagues and then complained of stomach pain and began convulsing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2025

She remains recumbent for an entire number, singing to a skeleton, before the bones around her reveal themselves as dancers in masks, convulsing to the humongous bassline synths of “Disease.”

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

I stand up, my whole body convulsing with anger.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman