How to Use convulsion in a Sentence

convulsion

noun

• These seizures are sometimes called benign convulsions with mild gastroenteritis (stomach flu), and rotavirus is a common cause of these symptoms.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health, 23 Oct. 2024
• Listeria infections typically cause fever, muscle aches and tiredness and may cause stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions.
  — Jonel Aleccia, Chicago Tribune, 16 Oct. 2024
• With every convulsion in the core, the rest of the sun will respond.
  — Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2023
• The convulsions in the office market, though, forced a change in plans.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
• Seen in time-lapse video, the sea creatures turn paler with each convulsion.
  — Mark Strauss, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2016
• 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
• The pain comes back, along with jaundice, convulsions, coma, and death.
  — Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2020
• According to the Mayo Clinic, a febrile seizure is a convulsion in a child that is caused by a fever and occurs in young, healthy kids.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
• There would be many more funerals to come, many more convulsions of grief.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• This can cause fever, bloody urine, jaundice, rash, convulsions and, in rare cases, death.
  — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2018
• In the middle of this convulsion, Ms. de Bonafini’s life was turned upside down.
  — Ana Lankes, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• The victims often had what sounded like a convulsion when the demon was cast out.
  — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2010
• The seismic shock and the emotional convulsions that followed were both felt across the country.
  — Feride Yalav-Heckeroth, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• All the big streaming services are going through some kind of convulsion.
  — Nick Statt, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024
• Her death has therefore led not just to mourning but to the start of a political convulsion.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 Sep. 2020
• Febrile Seizures Febrile seizures are convulsions that develop from a high fever's effects on your brain.
  — Smita Patel, Verywell Health, 19 July 2024
• Not every big-money trader was caught off guard by the convulsions.
  — Lu Wang, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Therein lies the optimism: the projection of a future when the convulsions of the present will feel alien — and when people will still be reading books.
  — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• The idea that one player can switch teams and tilt the league’s balance of power has become a source of inspiration and convulsion.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
• Or put it this way: After another week of trade taunts and market convulsions, who isn’t?
  — Washington Post, 2 June 2019
• In the midst of our current convulsions, Lippmann has returned as an object of disdain.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• But the male was lying on his back vomiting and having convulsions.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• The actors, at the very least, seem to be enjoying those convulsions immensely.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• Within a minute the dog was writhing with convulsions, a reddish foam emanating from his mouth.
  — National Geographic, 20 Apr. 2017
• 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
• The acts of men and the periodic convulsions of the unsettled earth have seen the mission razed and rebuilt several times over.
  — Scott Garner, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Among them are fever, diarrhea, aches. confusion, loss of balance and convulsions, the CDC said.
  — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, 24 May 2018
• Many would be chock full of particular forms of carbon, for instance, dredged up from the star’s core during its convulsions.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024