palpitate

“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

The lyrics palpitate with the pain of loss and leave-taking: “I’m 500 miles from my home”; “I’ve been all around this world”; “Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2013

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 air of the whole neighborhood palpitates with the muffled thunder of Wasps and Hornets on test stands in the research buildings.

From Time Magazine Archive

The omelette palpitates under his fork, unable to believe its luck.

From Time Magazine Archive

The heart palpitates, the blood streams, and yet it is a living man who, showing his wound with his own hand, beckons to you to come and fathom his half-opened breast.

From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet

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

It had no limits and it palpitated under the hot September sun, boundless and savage.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland

They’ve mastered human collaboration, and it’s evident all through their palpitating 13-1 tour of a season festooned with narrow escapes.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2023

“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

That we are all of us individual moving dots, part of the same involuntary palpitating life, crisscrossing as we walk the streets.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2019

“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

His eyes and nostrils were running, and his palpitating crimson lower lip was splattered with a foamy dew.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller