How to Use convulsion in a Sentence

convulsion

noun
  • Being stung more than a dozen times can also cause a buildup of venom in the body that can cause serious sickness that can include dizziness, fever, convulsions or vomiting.
    Devi Shastri, Fortune, 4 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
  • 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
  • Severe poisoning may lead to high fever, convulsions or even death.
    Bill Sherwonit, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Aug. 2017
  • Symptoms of listeriosis can include fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, and convulsions that are sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2024

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