convulsive

Not only downtown children feel convulsive changes in their lives.

Several convulsive searches took place over the next couple of days.

Soon or later, you will feel a convulsive quake of the earth.

This was the kind that often died; the convulsive type.

It's hard to imagine anything so convulsive happening these days.

With convulsive strength she was able to roll him off.

The boy made a single convulsive move toward the edge when he saw them approaching.

The night before the final, he suffered a convulsive fit.

There was a final, convulsive crash, yet he could not feel it.

The man made a convulsive movement once, then lay on the floor, silent and still.

Then, with a convulsive effort of his will, he managed to force a smile.

Dramatic, convulsive change marks the business of American health care.

A final convulsive scream, and the old man lay still.

Scott came up out of the water with a convulsive yell.

She moved close, putting both arms around him in a convulsive gesture.

By convulsive efforts he got on his feet, staggered, and fell.

He saw a left hand thrust forward, as if to make a convulsive throw.

"This is the place," she said through a convulsive shiver.

This was a convulsive, automatic act, rather than one of intent.

There was a convulsive shiver and the man lay still.

As Tom nodded, their prisoner gave a convulsive start but said nothing.

He saw the convulsive movement of her throat as she swallowed.

The hand holding the phone was trembling in convulsive little bursts.

She bent to the boy again, and for the first time saw a convulsive movement of the throat.

I turned and squeezed his arm with almost convulsive appreciation.