Some sentence examples which use the word 'convulsion'
The play was so funny that audience were all in convulsions.
Smith, China in Convulsion (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1902).
These and other less well marked changes, say some critics, are signs of a racial convulsion not long after 2000 B.C. An old race was conquered by a new, even if, in matters of civilization, the former capta victorem cepit.