convulsions

Example Sentences

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While experts predict modest employment numbers, disappointing data could send the market back into convulsions.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 8, 2026

He contracted meningitis as a youth and still suffers from convulsions.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

In a coffee shop in Greenland's capital Nuuk, Lykke Lynge looked fondly at her four kids as they sipped their hot chocolate, seemingly oblivious to the world's convulsions.

From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026

Jonathan said in July that his father had been suffering serious convulsions and his mother was "numb" from anaemia and malnutrition.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025

She let go and sprawled back on the grass in convulsions of laughter.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd