How to Use convulsion in a Sentence

convulsion

noun

• Then and there, the son had convulsions.
  — Cindy Cowen, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Dec. 2025
• Seen in time-lapse video, the sea creatures turn paler with each convulsion.
  — Mark Strauss, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2016
• With every convulsion in the core, the rest of the sun will respond.
  — Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2023
• That was just one of a series of convulsions that have hit this year’s campaign.
  — Bill Barrow, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2024
• There would be many more funerals to come, many more convulsions of grief.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• The convulsions in the office market, though, forced a change in plans.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
• The pain comes back, along with jaundice, convulsions, coma, and death.
  — Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2020
• This can cause fever, bloody urine, jaundice, rash, convulsions and, in rare cases, death.
  — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2018
• Not every big-money trader was caught off guard by the convulsions.
  — Lu Wang, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• What about a child with convulsions, but no history of head injury?
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
• All the big streaming services are going through some kind of convulsion.
  — Nick Statt, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024
• Severe poisoning may lead to high fever, convulsions or even death.
  — Bill Sherwonit, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Aug. 2017
• The victims often had what sounded like a convulsion when the demon was cast out.
  — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010
• There is no end to the impotent convulsions of an empire in decline.
  — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 9 June 2026
• But the male was lying on his back vomiting and having convulsions.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• In the second, a man slumped against a bathroom wall and a woman lying in bed; the two showed signs of convulsion.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
• Her death has therefore led not just to mourning but to the start of a political convulsion.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 Sep. 2020
• Within a minute the dog was writhing with convulsions, a reddish foam emanating from his mouth.
  — National Geographic, 20 Apr. 2017
• Cue convulsions and expressions of agony.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
• Symptoms of a seizure can include convulsions, twitching of the arms or legs, or even loss of consciousness.
  — Julie Scott, Msn, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
• The seismic shock and the emotional convulsions that followed were both felt across the country.
  — Feride Yalav-Heckeroth, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• So are wild garlic and death camas, a plant that can cause vomiting, convulsions, coma and death.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
• Édouard Manet was a key figure in the creative convulsions that ushered in modernism.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
• Several works look back vividly and honestly on the convulsions of the past.
  — The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
• France suffered political convulsions for the rest of the decade.
  — Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Oct. 2024
• Once the disease begins to spread, headaches, stiff neck, loss of balance and convulsions are also common.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• No crying out, no convulsions—nothing but the fixity of a pensive gaze.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper's Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
• The actors, at the very least, seem to be enjoying those convulsions immensely.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• China’s central bank is stretching its arms far and wide to stem convulsions in the real economy.
  — Washington Post, 21 June 2019
• Symptoms of heat stroke include high fever; dry, red skin; rapid and weak pulse and breathing; convulsions; and delirium.
  — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 20 June 2018