convulsively
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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I was vomiting so convulsively they removed them to get the spasms to stop.
From Washington Post • May 27, 2022
Not convulsively, but enough that I didn’t get kicked out of the joint.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 28, 2020
This movie may be a convulsively entertaining throwback to Scott’s glory days, but to look upon Fassbender, with his icy and seductive post-human gaze, is to behold this franchise’s future.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2017
January 12th: Kate Soper’s “Here Be Sirens,” at Dixon Place, was another bracing blast of twenty-first-century music theatre, ringing intricately variegated, at times convulsively funny variations on the siren myth.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2014
But I saw his knuckles tighten convulsively on the wheel.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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