heartbeat

Example Sentences

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By the time the doctor had logged there was no fetal heartbeat, the medical record shows, Crain was too unstable for surgery.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

"I'm not even joking, I could physically see my shirt moving from my heartbeat," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

“I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States,” Harris said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Once in the late 1950s, while building machinery to record sounds a heart makes, he accidentally used the wrong resistor, but its electrical pulse rate was steady, like a heartbeat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

What she’d thought must be music, or the crowd around them, was Anat’s heartbeat, just like it had been the night on the fire escape.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny