The lights pulsated with the music.
People danced to the pulsating sounds of hip-hop.
Virtually every scene of the movie pulsates with suspense.
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With toney interiors and Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir’s pulsating percussive soundtrack, DaCosta’s adaptation feels at once like a period piece as well as a fresh, psychological thriller about power and class.—Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025 Then looks came out to a pulsating beat.—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025 The pulsating Afrobeats-meets-electronic rhythm and Victony’s buoyant vocals will start anyone’s day with their heart racing.—Heran Mamo, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2025 Ramos revealed how the sculptures come to life, pulsating with emotion, as light sweeps through a cycle to mimic the day-to-night transition, from soft dawn gold, to midday clarity, to the dusk’s warmth, and into the retreat of night.—Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pulsate
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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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