pulsate

When a lower-mass star reaches the point where nuclear reactions in its core can no longer support it, the star becomes unstable and begins to pulsate.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

They tore through cornfields like earthbound locusts, making the stalks pulsate as if buffeted by a strong wind.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2023

All of these movies pulsate with the breathlessness and disorientation of a country simultaneously grappling with the past and speeding toward a confusing future.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

It’s easy to get swept away in the enchanting and immersive images, sounds and songs of “Neptune Frost,” to simply ride the waves of vibes that pulsate and radiate from the film’s core.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

He felt his veins begin to pulsate; then the vibration coursed through him, and he felt the power leave his hands and enter his wound.

From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry

Whatever your musical taste, “Musical Bodies” pulsates with spirit and soul alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

But the contemporary allegory of patriarchal control over reproduction pulsates throughout, even as the film remains open to multiple readings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024

As a gentle breeze rustled the oaks and chaparral, Hughes said she felt the sanctity of Oak Flat in every breath: “That spiritual divine breath. It’s just here. It pulsates here.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023

But the intoxicating strength of the show’s leading lady still pulsates throughout — even when, as is often the case with this concert stagings, Murphy had her book in hand for the dramatic scenes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

The camp pulsates with this collective energy, gearing up for change.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

The arteries of the capital and other major cities pulsated with people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

Techno music pulsated through the building during stoppages, and the crowd littered the ice with caps after Cozens finished his hat trick at 11:52.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2023

Max’s “Finale: Late Conversations With Stephen Sondheim” pulsated with theatrical sensibility and insight into the art form.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022

With each hit, each shot and every extra effort made to push the puck out of the defensive ends, both arenas pulsated under the din, but Edmonton’s seemed more thunderous.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2022

They pulsated with the love of all things alive, a powerful yearning that Sierra could taste.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

The result, after four years of development, hit theaters last summer as an Apple and Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, 2½-hour feature—called, appropriately enough, “F1”—that married the pulsating action of “Top Gun” with the real-life universe of F1.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

"Are they scared of screams or should it be like a pulsating sound?" she says.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

“A mist of the miraculous,” she writes, of life itself, “irreducible to stone and bone, pulsating with that eternal question: What is all this?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

According to 1996 reporting by The Times, “Siembra” delivered pulsating salsa rhythms that “carried messages of freedom at a time when most of Latin America was oppressed by military dictatorships.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026

Greater sea creatures glided past, their bodies decorated with pulsating, magical designs.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda