palpitating

Example Sentences

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“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

Just 17 days before the announcement, he quarterbacked Clemson in a palpitating 28-26 escape from Texas A&M, then appeared on TV as a smiling face of Clemson.

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 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

Nerves twitched, and the vein in one wrist began palpitating.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller