have fits
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"While in my arms, Roo began to have fits, struggling to breath, foaming at the mouth, it was the worst experience of my life," he said.
From BBC • May 10, 2022
“Everything I have fits in this bag,” Freeman said, referring to a knapsack in which he planned to carry away his tent and his clothing.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2021
Multiple children, in the span of a night, would have fits of throwing up.
From Slate • Jul. 28, 2019
Schoolteachers would have fits at such tense-skipping, conjunction-omitting, subject-dropping, shapeless-seeming sentences.
From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2013
Sometimes, she’d have fits of consciousness and try to walk beside him at a slow limp, but it never lasted long.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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