How to Use convulsive in a Sentence

convulsive

adjective

• But the sight of him in it reduces his mother to convulsive sobs.
  — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
• The rate of these changes from an ecologist's point of view is convulsive.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 25 May 2018
• But it had been replaced by a wave of convulsive chills that persisted for two hours.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• There were winners and losers, and their story is one of convulsive struggle.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020
• There had not yet been convulsive protests, devolving into riots and killing.
  — Star Tribune, 24 Feb. 2021
• Jean drifts through the film in a convulsive trance of intensity that’s a whisper away from traumatized.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 June 2019
• During the convulsive phase of a seizure, breathing may be intermittent.
  — Jacob Pellinen, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2024
• Those who took cannabadiol cut their median number of convulsive seizures per month in half, from 12 to six.
  — C. Michael White, Philly.com, 12 Jan. 2018
• While the various cases have yet to go to trial, the scandal has already endured its share of convulsive and strange twists.
  — Jake Fischer and Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 23 May 2018
• The story of modern Iran has been one of convulsive political and social change.
  — Eve Bower, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
• To me, there was something convulsive about playing for five-plus and then deciding it all with a conventional first-to-seven, win-by-two tiebreak.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 31 July 2019
• But recent developments are starting to change that equation, most of them stemming in some way from the convulsive effects of climate change.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• The term is musicological, describing the convulsive vocal cadence that took over pop thanks to them.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
• In other words, a convulsive episode is not a definitive indication of epilepsy.
  — Diana Apetauerova, Verywell Health, 24 July 2023
• This has been true since last March, and the convulsive spread of the delta variant shows that deciding how to navigate the social landscape is as volatile as ever.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Aug. 2021
• There’s a physically primal element that feels new to Hathaway here, and not just in the film’s early convulsive silent dance sequence.
  — Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026
• The convulsive and taboo-busting comic has transformed over time into a still bitingly funny and progressive feminist voice.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• When big convulsive economic events happen, the implications tend to take years to play out, and spiral in unpredictable directions.
  — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• Americans are sleepwalking toward convulsive pain, a consequence of decades of easy money policies to prevent minor pains.
  — George F. Will, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
• Any, any of those would have been better than the violence and the terror of drowning in the dark, the hunger then the convulsive need then the clawing murderous frenzy for air as salt water filled my lungs.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• The last few years have been historically convulsive ones for education in America.
  — Jonathan Mahler, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Experts now know that those symptoms are common among people with convulsive ergotism, or ergot poisoning, which is caused by a fungus that can grow on wheat, rye, and other similar grains.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• Nonetheless, the transition between the electric motor and gas engine is convulsive, and there's occasional lag when shifting.
  — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 24 June 2021
• And it was preceded by an almost convulsive surge of artistic creativity that generated some of the moving sculptures ever made, including those seen here.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2020
• In Husain’s five paintings here, the epic and its resonant meaning to a convulsive Indian nation intertwine.
  — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2021
• On the heels of a humbling year, the Oscars — usually a frothy night of self-congratulation — this year may feel more like a therapeutic rally for an industry in the midst of convulsive change.
  — Jake Coyle, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Apr. 2021
• Though this bureaucratic rite takes place every time a new party occupies the White House, the convulsive turnover that took place in 2017 made the shift far more pronounced.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
• Sensing irritation in your nasal passages, your body releases special brain-signaling chemicals that then trigger a convulsive expulsion of air out of the nose and mouth at more than 30 miles per hour.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 8 Feb. 2019
• Coming at the end of a convulsive final day in Baku, Azerbaijan, the conclusion of the Conference of the Parties was greeted by applause.
  — Antonio Piemontese, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2024
• Stoke Therapeutics said Monday that a higher dose of its experimental drug for epilepsy reduced the frequency of convulsive seizures in children with a rare form of the disease.
  — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 14 Nov. 2022