How to Use propulsive in a Sentence

propulsive

adjective

• This propulsive thriller will keep you up long after lights out.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2022
• Gone are the propulsive writing, drug lords and chase scenes.
  — Esmeralda Santiago, New York Times, 21 May 2025
• In this propulsive new work, the past lives only through the present.
  — Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• There’s something kind of propulsive about it.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2026
• These tracking shots give the film a propulsive sense of motion.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
• Both boys seemed less propulsive, as if bouncing on a seesaw alone.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• In the song, Puth just can’t shake a love that keeps him hanging over a propulsive beat.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 9 Mar. 2022
• Doug Varone’s dances swirl with steps, and those propulsive steps swirl with ideas and emotions.
  — Jack Anderson, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2017
• Maybe some of those stories will become more propulsive as the season nears its end.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2022
• Hirsch is eighty-seven but has the propulsive energy of an eight-year-old.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• Stories are lovely, and this one is propulsive and well written.
  — Cory Oldweiler, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
• And then that propulsive lead-up to the movie’s two-minute drive to intermission.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2025
• Max performed the propulsive dance-pop track while moving in and out of a large cage as a crew of dancers flew around her.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2021
• The score is dark, propulsive, and, at times, wrenchingly lyrical.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• Scott moves the dramatic story along at a propulsive clip that never flags.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2017
• This Way highlight is as propulsive and epic as the original.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2021
• The series is propulsive and vivid and over the top, with quick shifts between melodrama and farce.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
• The young duo dresses its propulsive, woozy rock riffs with lots of dreamy distortion and reverb.
  — Jeff Milo, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2017
• The song opens with an electric guitar line, a propulsive drum beat, and some textured fiddle.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
• The Buckeyes thrived behind the propulsive thrust of their running game.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
• The propulsive music helps; the cast is first-rate and thoroughly charming.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2023
• And the story feels propulsive even when people aren’t pulling out hatchets, daggers, and chains.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2023
• Like the band's most ubiquitous songs, this film looks propulsive, different, and a whole lot of fun.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 15 May 2018
• Franklin’s debut novel tells a propulsive story about class, race, and being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 2 June 2025
• It's been a propulsive sort of component to my existence.
  — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
• The three Mikkola girls drive this propulsive family epic.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
• Generally this means books that are prose-light, plot-forward, and propulsive.
  — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
• These gags can be funny, but the propulsive mechanics of farce require more of a sense of movement.
  — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
• All of this is present from the get-go in the title track, whose propulsive backbeat carries along a bevy of mixed emotions.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 18 Aug. 2020
• But the cast, while extremely likable, were not super propulsive.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026