coursed

Example Sentences

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My body coursed with anxiety for the entire pregnancy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Overflowing rivers coursed through villages, sweeping away homes, roads and bridges and triggering landslides.

From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025

A sense of panic coursed through the city, as prices for food and fuel skyrocketed.

From New York Times • May 6, 2024

Gregg traces his fixation on the Western Flyer to his childhood growing up in coastal Georgia, where the sky was often coursed by contrails from Cape Canaveral.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023

We were pursued on every shore, hunted like foxes, coursed like hares.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson