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

“It makes my heart palpitate, the math,” she said.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2016

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

His heart palpitates; his limbs are weak; he cannot digest his food; he sweats easily; he gets out of breath.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 atmosphere about the Stock Exchange fairly palpitates with suspicion and subterfuge.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

Mine, by contrast, palpitated so furiously that I braced myself for cardiac arrest.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019

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

Betjeman's quatrains palpitated with cliches and such treacly rhymes as people/steeple, dutiful/beautiful and blue/true.

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

People watched with bated breath; hands shook, hearts palpitated, eyes blinked, faces twitched, nerves twinged, pulses beat rapidly.

From The Sweep Winner by Nat Gould

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

In a career defined by blurring borders, this was less a plot twist than a quick spotlight on an underappreciated character: body music that keeps the heart palpitating.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022

“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

Once a jutka almost ran us over...the driver just managed to pull up the horse and while we stood palpitating he leaned from his seat, irate and frightened, to shout at us.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya