On this page you'll find 5 example sentences with Convulse. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as shake or agitate and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Convulse meaning
- To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort.
- To be beset by political or social upheaval.
- To cause (someone) to suffer such contractions, especially as a result of making them laugh heartily.
Synonyms of Convulse
Using Convulse
- The main meaning on this page is: To suffer violent involuntary contractions of the muscles, causing one's body to contort. | To be beset by political or social upheaval. | To cause (someone) to suffer such contractions, especially as a result of making them laugh heartily.
- Useful related words include: shake, agitate, compress, jactitate.
- In the example corpus, convulse often appears in combinations such as: to convulse, convulse and.
Context around Convulse
- Average sentence length in these examples: 33.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Convulse
- In this selection, "convulse" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 33.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include her to convulse and pass and lest it convulse with you. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "convulse" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with convulse
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Qur'an says it like this: We have raised mountains on the earth lest it convulse with you. (19 words)
In April 2021, the "excruciating" pain caused her to "convulse and pass out multiple times" in what she described as a "really traumatic" and "very scary" incident that left her fearing for her life. (34 words)
Or when the evil growing inside Margaret makes her convulse in the street, the camera remains focused on her but it's handheld, so it shakes with her and makes you cringe in your seat. (35 words)
As I reached the point where my shoulders became submerged, my chest started to convulse and I swallowed mouthfuls of bitter water, and very faintly, as if from a great distance, I sensed that I was about to give way. (40 words)
Other bankers don’t see Ueda as a huge fan of the Kuroda experiment, but he is still expected to unwind things slowly and to avoid a sudden market spike in interest rates that could convulse the economy. (38 words)
Or when the evil growing inside Margaret makes her convulse in the street, the camera remains focused on her but it's handheld, so it shakes with her and makes you cringe in your seat. (35 words)
Example sentences (5)
Other bankers don’t see Ueda as a huge fan of the Kuroda experiment, but he is still expected to unwind things slowly and to avoid a sudden market spike in interest rates that could convulse the economy.
As I reached the point where my shoulders became submerged, my chest started to convulse and I swallowed mouthfuls of bitter water, and very faintly, as if from a great distance, I sensed that I was about to give way.
In April 2021, the "excruciating" pain caused her to "convulse and pass out multiple times" in what she described as a "really traumatic" and "very scary" incident that left her fearing for her life.
Or when the evil growing inside Margaret makes her convulse in the street, the camera remains focused on her but it's handheld, so it shakes with her and makes you cringe in your seat.
The Qur'an says it like this: We have raised mountains on the earth lest it convulse with you.
Common combinations with convulse
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to convulse 2×
- convulse and 2×