palpitate
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“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
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
They’re warm to the touch; they practically palpitate in your hands.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2011
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 omelette palpitates under his fork, unable to believe its luck.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tout petit bourgeois palpitates in both these sketches.
From Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James
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
Minute by minute the glow increased in brilliance till the little shrine palpitated with the fires of a midsummer sunset.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
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
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
His eyes and nostrils were running, and his palpitating crimson lower lip was splattered with a foamy dew.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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