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

Tracks murmur and thrum or surge and palpitate, flush with bleary murk and melodic curlicues reminiscent of earthen atmosphere and galactic ascent alike.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 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

This place is mighty blue; The silence of the empty rooms Jes' palpitates with — you.

From Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by John Avery Lomax

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

“Just to think of it, and carrying you on his shoulders like a log!” palpitated Bluff, listening with eagerness to these disclosures.

From The Outdoor Chums on the Lake Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island by Quincy Allen

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

Angelica Hernández’s heart hasn’t stopped palpitating for a week.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2020

There she would watch the ceiling till mid-afternoon, her heart palpitating with exhaustion, when she would leave for the school pickup.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 14, 2018

The bronze chandeliers’ gas jets produced a softly palpitating glow, casting pools of light across the polished oak floor.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros