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

Is England," he said, "to be governed, and is England to be convulsed, by Popkins's plan?

From Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 by Baring, Evelyn

At such times he would fancy that his mother had died, and he would be convulsed with sorrow, breaking unexpectedly into a rousing college song.

From The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Gilbert, Paul T. (Paul Thomas)

It is better than to be convulsed with vulgar and excessive fear.

From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by Ware, William

I have no doubt that even now the learned judge is strenuously preparing his inimitable flashes of humour, and that, like the rest of the world, I should allow myself to be convulsed by them.

From The Great Adventure by Bennett, Arnold