| Jessica reached for the button to summon the nurse even as Sam's body began to convulse. |
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| The capacity of trivial events to convulse the media and political commentators never ceases to amaze. |
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| His words echoed in the emptiness of his mind as his frail, emaciated body began to convulse and was racked by involuntary spasms. |
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| A year later, it happened again, causing the emergency medical system to convulse into action once more. |
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| The Government knows that this would convulse the country in anger. |
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| He died of a heart attack 43 minutes later, after the lethal injection caused him to convulse and a vein to burst. |
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| Signs you may see are confusion, loss of balance, the animal may go into shock, or it could convulse. |
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| The newborn's body may stiffen or arch and he or she may convulse when stimulated by light, sound or being touched. |
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| Engines, thousands and thousands of car engines and generators, convulse moving machines. |
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| This was a key part of his appeal as Tory popularity soared, especially given that the electorate takes in so little of the daily political concerns that convulse Westminster. |
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| Pasty-faced people convulse, attempt suicide, and the like. |
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| When our diaphragms convulse, our shoulders shake, and tears come to our eyes, we're no longer in any position to experience the finer feelings that have been annulled. |
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| A CLUTCH of five uninhabited islets and three rocks, cast adrift out in the currents of the Western Pacific, recently demonstrated their power to convulse East Asia. |
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| But when Kashima drops his guard, the thrashings of the grotesque fish convulse the earth. Japan is extraordinarily prone to earthquakes, accounting for nearly a fifth of the world's supply of them. |
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| She was heaving now, her left side seizing up as if an unsnappable thread were being pulled through it to convulse it. |
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