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

She seemed to be convulsed by some demoniac power; a ghastly dream seemed to have seized her in a moment of higher consciousness.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson

As soon as one begins to be convulsed, several others are affected.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles

Her whole being seemed to be convulsed in one concentrated desire.

From The Man and the Moment by Glyn, Elinor

And then suddenly he was nearly minded to turn and run for it, and his features seemed to him to be convulsed.

From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)