A building will convulse if there is an explosion nearby. From LearnThat.org.
Which wasn’t too bad until I noticed it was absolutely everywhere and started to convulse from the overdose. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion rant « Dyepot, Teapot] Reference
Should grief convulse my heart with joyful knocks?. From Wordnik.com. [Poetic Sketches] Reference
The same is true of outbreaks that convulse nations. From Wordnik.com. [Bond and Free: A Tale of the South] Reference
That great reaction which was soon to convulse all the. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1] Reference
And he is starting to convulse in the middle of the street. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2009] Reference
And the AM talk-radio hosts will convulse with their own rabies. From Wordnik.com. [Edwards And Obama Camps Both Pushing "Hillary-Is-Polarizing" Line] Reference
Wrath and sorrow and insulted affection convulse him for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
When the troubles which culminated in the civil war began to convulse. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
I throw up so violently, my neck muscles convulse, cramping into knots. From Wordnik.com. [You've Been Warned]
I was pretty scared she would start to convulse because she was so hot. From Wordnik.com. [bettyalready Diary Entry] Reference
One should convulse in shame at the insidiousness of such a declaration. From Wordnik.com. [President-Elect Obama,You Must NOT Be Silent!] Reference
Lions on the Serengeti Plain in East Africa began to twitch and convulse. From Wordnik.com. [Something Is Killing The Lions] Reference
How are we preparing for this struggle, which may yet convulse the world?. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
They would keep hitting the same spot repeatedly until you would convulse. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2004] Reference
A stir ensued sufficient to convulse the heavens and to subvert the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
He was choking back the sobs that seemed of a sudden to convulse his frame. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
His mother begins to convulse, her rocking chair now like an electric chair. From Wordnik.com. [You've Been Warned]
So is an change for the better, like birth and death which convulse the body. From Wordnik.com. [On the Duty of Civil Disobedience] Reference
The lights went down when Senator Kennedy started to convulse, is that correct?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2009] Reference
But before anybody could say anything, his body stiffened, and he began to convulse. From Wordnik.com. [Changeling]
He aimed and fired in one motion, and saw the rider convulse and the bike veer away. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
My blood was running cold and shivers pulsed through me, making my shoulders convulse. From Wordnik.com. [Bunnies] Reference
Iraq continues to convulse from its transition from despotic dictatorship to democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Security is the dominant issue for displaced Iraqis] Reference
He could convulse a dinner-party when everything else failed, by making ridiculous faces. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 1] Reference
I jerk off the bedclothes, convulse into an upright posture, and glare into the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
Here's at least some evidence that they are getting worried the body is about to convulse. From Wordnik.com. [Attack of the Wal-Mart-istas] Reference
Of course, sometimes the sign is that he will twitch and convulse at the sound of my voice. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
Presidencies that convulse the nation and grip it and polarize it for years are exceptions. From Wordnik.com. [Questions Answers: ?This Was Eight Years Of Psychodrama?] Reference
Part of me fears when the three of us get together - the world just may convulse and implode. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
Which convulse the system by their violent cathartic action, must not be taken for constipation. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, No. 106, October, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference
"I don't fall over and convulse, but it hurts," says Fultz, an IT worker in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. From Wordnik.com. [Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer] Reference
If I continue to think of your deviant ways, I think I'll just convulse and die of a burst artery. From Wordnik.com. [babycartercl Diary Entry] Reference
Water rushed into her lungs, and her body began to convulse instantly as it instinctively tried to cough. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Unless there's a comic where Spider-Man has to shoot webs at a plastic puppet of himself in order to make it convulse, no. From Wordnik.com. [Caught Up in an Ugly Web of Cheesy Spider-Man Marketing] Reference
That it could slam into her womb, convulse it and release inside her a hunger for more that she didn't know she was capable of. From Wordnik.com. [Wicked Pleasures]
Because he was afraid that I'd convulse as the magnum load of toxin hit me, fall under the wheels of a car and be injured or killed. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
All of this flailing by the Clinton campaign is like watching a very ill person convulse, recover a bit and fall into convulsions again. From Wordnik.com. [Top Hillary Adviser: Richardson Privately Said Obama Is Unelectable] Reference
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