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
France could not be convulsed without communicating danger to the very extremities of Europe.
From Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 by Jones, Edgar R. (Edgar Rees), Sir
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)
As soon as one begins to be convulsed, several others are affected.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles
And if both were destroyed, the State would still be convulsed with factions.
From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John
