pulsing

verbquiver, beat

Word Origin & History

"a throb, a beat," early 14c., from Old French pous, pulse (late 12c., Modern French pouls) and directly from Latin pulsus (in pulsus venarum "beating from the blood in the veins"), past participle of pellere "to push, drive," from PIE *pel- (6) "to thrust, strike, drive" (cf. Greek pallein "to wield, brandish, swing," pelemizein "to shake, cause to tremble"). Extended usages from 16c. Figurative use for "life, vitality, essential energy" is from 1530s.

Example Sentences for pulsing

But it was all very wonderful, pulsing with life, eloquent of achievement.

Stark and cruelly naked they lay there, pulsing with life that should not have been.

The pulsing, throbbing pandemonium was terrific as the march began.

Her thin neck throbbed with the pulsing of blood to her head.

You're young and pulsing with life, and there are—thank Heaven!

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