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convulsively

ADVERB
  1. with convulsions, in a convulsive way
    her leg twitched convulsively

How To Use convulsively In A Sentence

  • Never thought of _death_, or even looked upon it, for mother told us there was no need of harrowing up our feelings -- it would come soon enough, she said; and to me, who hoped to live so long, it has come _too soon_ -- all too soon; "and the hot tears rained through the transparent fingers, clasped so convulsively over her face. Dora Deane
  • Results Neostigmine can contract the intestinal muscle convulsively, shrink the blood vessel and dark the blood color.
  • her leg twitched convulsively
  • War irrupts convulsively into the history of civilizations as a loss of control, partially managed by competing political interests.
  • He illustrates fetishism with a story of "two Malay women in Keeling Island who held a wooden spoon dressed in clothes like a doll ... this spoon danced about convulsively like a table or a hat at a modern spirit-seance."
  • Experiments on animals, which proved more sensitive to loss of the parathyroids than men were, showed that muscles tightened convulsively, a situation called tetany (tet'uh-nee; "stretch" G). The Human Brain
  • On a night of tidal emotions, the night when Beckham became a fetish, I found my hammy Irish fists jerking themselves convulsively upwards from my pressbox desk and towards the sky when Argentina went ahead.
  • My hands convulsively clenched, my teeth clamped together, my nostrils flared, my lips curled, and a red mist descended in front of my eyes.
  • Swallowing convulsively, she rubbed vigorously at her face and hair with a large bath towel until her skin burned.
  • His fingers convulsively clenched into fists for an instant before he forced his tense muscles to relax.
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