How to Use grand mal in a Sentence

grand mal

noun

• First, her son, Louie, had a grand mal seizure from a high fever.
  — Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 2 Dec. 2021
• The little girl who had 300 grand mal seizures a week went on to have only two or three a month.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 8 Apr. 2020
• Mitchell had epilepsy, and his grand mal seizures couldn’t be controlled with medication.
  — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
• Going a bit deeper, tonic-clonic seizures (formerly known as a grand mal seizures), are how seizures are typically depicted in media.
  — Patti Greco, Health.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• The African lion fell in his enclosure and fractured his jaw after a grand mal seizure Sunday, zoo officials said Wednesday.
  — Scottie Andrew and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 10 July 2019
• Since developing epilepsy after sustaining an injury in the military, Liana Ruppert has endured four grand mal seizures.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020
• After mixing both, Brian said Sadie’s grand mal seizures with violent muscle contractions were reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes.
  — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 18 May 2018
• Family friends confirmed to the Martha’s Vineyard Times that Forté was hospitalized a year ago after suffering a seizure and had since been taking medication to control the threat of a grand mal seizure.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2026
• Then, on the night of December 13, after a Christmas party for employees of the tunnel-construction company Bob co-owns with his three brothers, Cheryl, suffered a grand mal seizure.
  — Stephanie Mansfield, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2022
• And there are heartrending stories, like Samina Ali’s beautifully wrought Labor of Love, which recounts her arduous journey to learn to walk and write again after suffering a grand mal seizure and brain damage while giving birth to her son.
  — Charisse Jones, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2018