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

The director allows her protagonist’s pain to protract and pulsate without narrative fuss; even scenes of turmoil unspool with a deliberate delicacy.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

Solar flares come from sunspots, or bruiselike discolorations on the surface of the sun that pulsate with energy.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 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

It seemed to pulsate in a rhythm as faint and uneven as that of the wind.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

A sentence Etienne once read aloud returns: Even the heart, which in higher animals, when agitated, pulsates with increased energy, in the snail under similar excitement, throbs with a slower motion.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

During the climactic moment, a giant load-in door in the upstage wall slowly rose like a curtain onto West 45th Street, which pulsated with color and life.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

His ballads on Canadian themes, including “Canadian Railroad Trilogy,” pulsated with a love for the nation’s rivers and forests, which he explored on ambitious canoe trips far into the hinterlands.

From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023

As music pulsated and his teammates, past and present, gathered at midcourt for tipoff, the former Laker sixth man and current Clipper starting point guard remained still, the only motionless person inside a sold-out arena.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

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

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

In a pulsating contest albeit without Messi, the South Americans took the lead twice before Michael Owen struck two dramatic late goals to earn Sven-Goran Eriksson's England a 3-2 victory.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

CALI, Colombia—This tropical city is known for the vibrant salsa music pulsating through its nightlife and the stately samán trees shading narrow streets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

“He was to be seen as a much bigger threat this time and made up of a twisted mass of large, pulsating vines,” Gower says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 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

Ed chose his music carefully, his dances having an opening act of excitement and greeting, a middle of pulsating, very danceable songs interspersed with romantic interludes, and then the inevitable ending.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam