How To Use Convulsively In A Sentence
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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
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Results Neostigmine can contract the intestinal muscle convulsively, shrink the blood vessel and dark the blood color.
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her leg twitched convulsively
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War irrupts convulsively into the history of civilizations as a loss of control, partially managed by competing political interests.
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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."
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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
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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.
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My hands convulsively clenched, my teeth clamped together, my nostrils flared, my lips curled, and a red mist descended in front of my eyes.
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Swallowing convulsively, she rubbed vigorously at her face and hair with a large bath towel until her skin burned.
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His fingers convulsively clenched into fists for an instant before he forced his tense muscles to relax.
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Twisting convulsively, it rolled down into the road under our horses 'feet, -- and there this human form, which some call godlike, writhed and floundered like a severed worm, and disguised itself in blood and dust.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
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His face became distorted; the alae of the nose worked convulsively; his lips moved quiveringly up and down; his eyelids were expanded into a wild and eager stare; the tongue was now stiff, now played convulsively within the mouth; and the muscles of the throat, larynx, and trachea were sympathetically affected.
Knotted Tongues
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Her hand tightened convulsively on the receiver, the earpiece jerked against her face.
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Sadly he convulsively jerked with sufficient violence to release the handbrake - always put your car in gear on a slope.
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His eyes glittered, his mouth worked convulsively, and his cheeks were as black with the flying soot as the "colley" of the pot.
The Manxman A Novel - 1895
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The cross-eyed fellow was already on the platform; he began to tune the guitar, and six women sat down around him in a row, beginning to clap hands in time to the music; Tarugo rose from her seat and started a side dance, and was soon wiggling her hips convulsively; the singer commenced to gargarize softly; at intervals he would be silent and then nothing would be heard save the snapping of Tarugo's fingers and the clatter of her heels, which played the counterpoint.
The Quest
