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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The joyride continued to the end where Malden Catholic emerged with the school’s first and only state baseball title with a pulsating 2-0 win over Marlboro.—Danny Ventura, Boston Herald, 10 May 2025 The pulsating thriller is mostly confined to the restaurant, making audiences feel trapped alongside the film's heroine.—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025 The result is a pulsating world filled with intricate rituals, mind control and menacing holograms.—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 1 May 2025 The Russian Defense Ministry published video on Saturday showing units practising tactics in groups of two or three motorbikes, with a rider seen navigating a course to the sound of a pulsating electronic soundtrack.—Daria Tarasova Markina and Tim Lister, CNN Money, 27 Apr. 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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