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

“Independent venues are the heartbeat of live music,” said Rene Volker, Spotify’s senior director of live music.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

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

From BBC • Apr. 14, 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

The noise of a tiny rapid heartbeat sounded.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton