How to Use convulse in a Sentence

convulse

verb

• The country was convulsed by war.
• The patient reacted to the medication and began convulsing.
• His long gray beard flows in convulsing waves to his shoulders.
  — Alfredo Sosa, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2025
• In the video, she's seen convulsing as her body reacts in shock.
  — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
• As her skin turned a darker shade, Sarah screamed and the crowd convulsed around them.
  — Andrew Kenney, The Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2019
• Her two surviving sons looked right at her, still alive but now convulsing in pain.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• The man, who had epilepsy, hit his head on the concrete floor and began to convulse.
  — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2021
• The room convulsed with the feverish music from the gramophone.
  — Charlotte Allen, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
• As the fungus takes hold, the ant begins to convulse, shaking it from its canopy nest back down to the ground.
  — New Atlas, 12 Apr. 2025
• The whale convulsed on the surface of the waves for a moment before charging again.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
• Malachi, then around 18 months old, stopped breathing, convulsed and turned blue with his eyes rolled in the back of his head.
  — Rachel Axon, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2018
• The constable threw her convulsing body over the back of a horse and carted her to county lines.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 May 2025
• As the lights shut on and off and alarms blared, an actor appeared onstage and began convulsing.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024
• In recent years, the state has been convulsed in violence, much of it connected to the drug trade.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
• Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, has been convulsed by civil strife for more than two years.
  — Saeed Al-Batati and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2017
• Joe lauded the kill, but Bonnie watched in horror as the dying bird convulsed.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019
• As a result, the territory has been convulsed by protests in recent months.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2019
• Jacqueline rushed out of her room and found Adrian lying on the floor, convulsing.
  — Marla Broadfoot, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
• Kevin saw Zay, his linebacker and one of Davon’s closest friends, convulse in anguish.
  — Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2021
• Three times in the modern era, the world has been convulsed by fights over the supercontinent and the waters around it.
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
• When the beat drops, everyone begins dancing wildly, as though trying to convulse out of their clothes.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
• In her worst experience, her torturers clipped wires to her arms and feet and gave her electric shocks that made her body convulse.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
• Smith appeared to writhe and convulse on the gurney for at least four minutes during the execution.
  — Marty Roney, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
• That night, DeBrodie was found screaming and convulsing on the basement floor.
  — Margaret Stafford, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
• Britain was convulsed for years by the difficulty of agreeing to terms of divorce with Europe.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 25 June 2026
• After receiving the sedative, Grant began to convulse and throw up.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 28 Oct. 2021
• The world’s newest nation, South Sudan, is convulsed by fighting.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2017
• In 1986, a major storm convulsed the region, damaging the dams and shearing soil from the ground.
  — James Glanz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• For 12 days now, protests fueled by a deepening economic crises have convulsed Iran.
  — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
• But the City of Lights and many other parts of France are right now convulsing with violence amid days of fiery protests.
  — Xiaofei Xu, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023