The lights pulsated with the music.
People danced to the pulsating sounds of hip-hop.
Virtually every scene of the movie pulsates with suspense.
Recent Examples on the WebDriven by bold visuals, pulsating music, and minimal dialogue, The Substance delivers a lurid and merciless critique of society’s unsustainable beauty standards.—Elissa Suh, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024 Astronaut Butch Wilmore first reported the pulsating sound coming from a speaker inside the spacecraft to Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday, just days before it was set to leave the station and return to Earth on autopilot.—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 2 Sep. 2024 For this album, Álvarez spent five years studying every aspect of the retro salsa sound, practicing at some of Bogotá’s pulsating neighborhood salsa clubs.—Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024 The device projects a pulsating blue light on the ceiling that starts as a dot and expands into a halo.—Nora Colomer, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pulsate
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Word History
Etymology
in part borrowed from Latin pulsātus, past participle of pulsāre "to strike with repeated blows, beat, (in passive) beat wildly (of the heart)," frequentative or repetitive derivative of pellere "to beat against, push, strike"; in part from pulse entry 1 + -ate entry 4 — more at pulse entry 1
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