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
His sense of humor was keen, and, between his professional horror of General Temple’s methods and the utter absurdity of the whole thing, he would be convulsed with silent laughter.
From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot
But usually on the third preparation he would strike—and the house would be convulsed.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Page, Brett
It was like the placid sky that precedes the storm—the calm ocean that in a moment may be convulsed by the squall—the couchant lion that on the slightest provocation may be roused to ungovernable rage.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
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
