palpitate
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“Seeing the hospital’s name come across caller ID, it caused my heart to palpitate a bit.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2019
Walker: I mean, at first, it probably made my heart, like, palpitate, and be like, “Aw.”
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2017
Tracks murmur and thrum or surge and palpitate, flush with bleary murk and melodic curlicues reminiscent of earthen atmosphere and galactic ascent alike.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2016
And although it made her heart palpitate temporarily, the remote danger of a heart attack seemed more bearable than losing her hearing.
From Nature ● Oct. 9, 2013
Damp with condensation, the brick walls appeared to palpitate in the lantern light, thrumming with the resounding force of the steam-powered engines and machinery in the rooms above.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
While he’s on the run, Sid’s mind palpitates with dread.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2016
This is the first test of a new high-intensity underwater blue light source, and my heart palpitates in anticipation.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2012
The omelette palpitates under his fork, unable to believe its luck.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tender surface of Rodin's burnished bronze palpitates with life; Brancusi's pitted limestone is all idea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Above my head the constellation of Cygnus stretches its great cross along the Milky Way; below, all around me, palpitates the insect symphony.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard
Mine, by contrast, palpitated so furiously that I braced myself for cardiac arrest.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
Betjeman's quatrains palpitated with cliches and such treacly rhymes as people/steeple, dutiful/beautiful and blue/true.
From Time Magazine Archive
No country has kept The Club busier or given it more nightmares than Britain, whose economy has palpitated in maddeningly regular intervals through a dozen sterling crises in 18 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear, and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me:
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
His genius glittered, quivered, frisked and palpitated, and the smile he wore was ever melting into irony.
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
“The crowd went berserk. Just for the occasion, we brought in EMTs who were standing by in case someone's heart started palpitating a little bit too quickly.”
From Fox News ● Jan. 29, 2020
Angelica Hernández’s heart hasn’t stopped palpitating for a week.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2020
My palpitating heart is also on the plane.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2018
“The popular poetry of Nicanor Parra is red and palpitating like a fighting cock crowing in the ring,” wrote literary critic Fernando Alegria in “Literature and Revolution.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2018
Once a jutka almost ran us over...the driver just managed to pull up the horse and while we stood palpitating he leaned from his seat, irate and frightened, to shout at us.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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