How to Use pulse in a Sentence

pulse

1 of 2 noun

• That was a pulse point for him.
  — Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
• Your pulse can feel their heart beat.
  — Jesse Dorris, Pitchfork, 25 Feb. 2026
• There’s no pulse, blood all over the place.
  — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 11 Mar. 2026
• He had been shot, and there was no pulse.
  — Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
• There was a brief pulse after that.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
• Adelman knows the pulse of his team.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2026
• Add flour and pulse just to combine.
  — Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 1 June 2026
• When the skin is damaged, that pulse stops.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Jan. 2026
• Their white glitter, a pulse of light.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
• The walls themselves are alive with the pulse of the city.
  — Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• But the two of them, like the movie, rarely get our pulse racing.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
• Then, at the edge of a wall, light that shouldn’t be there pulses.
  — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026
• The music is good enough, and her sound has been the pulse of pop for years.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2023
• Find your pulse and count 20 heartbeats.
  — Vicki Glembocki, Parents, 1 Mar. 2026
• Choose from floss mode and hydro pulse massage mode.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
• It’s held together by the faintest pulse of a bassline.
  — Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026
• But football remains the pulse of her life.
  — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2026
• And a lot of it is just breathing and slowing down your pulse.
  — Michael Nowels, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
• The whole stadium had a shared pulse.
  — Marta Tucci, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
• Add sugar and salt; pulse to combine.
  — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
• One stands next to Brooks’s limp body and attempts to find a pulse.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
• While the game is played across the country, its pulse throbs in Rio.
  — Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 28 Dec. 2025
• These can be quick pulse checks or something in-depth that may lead to long-term goals.
  — Anita Nelson, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• At their best, critics don’t just take the culture’s pulse.
  — Richard Renaldi, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• The stagger still doesn’t quite work against rosters with a pulse.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2026
• When deputies arrived, the child was not breathing and had no pulse.
  — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• The man had at least four bullet wounds and no pulse, the witness said.
  — CBS News, 24 Jan. 2026
• Cover and pulse until crumbs form.
  — Maddy Bendgen, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Apr. 2026
• The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
• The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025

pulse

2 of 2 verb

• The city pulses with life.
• He could feel the blood pulsing through his veins.
• Dance music pulsed from the speakers.
• The crowd pulsed again toward the bar.
  — Julia Hass, Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
• On weekends, the stores pulsed with life.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
• My feet, cramped and stiff, began to pulse.
  — Junnelle Hogen, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
• The crowd raged with the music; the mosh pit pulsed.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2025
• All through this book, what’s pulsing is your love of this thing.
  — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
• The kidney flushed pink with blood and began to pulse with life.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• The room pulsed, and the drinks continued to flow.
  — Sari Kamin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 June 2026
• Many seconds later, a great shock wave pulsed through the ground.
  — Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
• Add the gelatin mixture to the blender and pulse a few times to combine. Divide the mixture among six (6- to 8-ounce) ramekins or jars.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
• The lights can even be set to pulse with music, which is a neat party trick.
  — Dallas News, 12 May 2022
• Add pulsed vegetables to a large bowl, then add salt, lime juice and cilantro.
  — Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
• Their engines pulse, sensors blink awake.
  — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
• High strength alone is not enough because fusion magnets pulse for years.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2025
• In a food processor, pulse the garlic clove and pine nuts till a coarse paste forms.
  — Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2022
• Process or pulse the crust-less pieces into coarse crumbs in a food processor or blender.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Sep. 2023
• Keep processing to your taste, pulsing less for a coarse pesto, more for a smooth one.
  — The View, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• Add the flour and pulse the mixer a few times, just until the risk of flying flour has passed.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2021
• Apply an ice pack to pulse points on the neck and wrists, and behind knees to cool off quickly.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 June 2026
• Add pistachios to a food processor bowl and pulse to chop.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
• Add 1 cup flour to processor; pulse to combine.
  — Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 1 Dec. 2025
• Add olive oil, and pulse again until mixture is silky and emulsified.
  — Emily Weinstein, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• Can that pulsing stream of water damage teeth or enamel?
  — Anne Ewbank, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2026
• Drizzle olive oil over the mixture, and pulse six more times or until a coarse mixture forms.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
• Times Square has been at once the pulsing heart of New York and an open sore.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
• Day-old sandwich bread pulsed into breadcrumbs serves both as a binder and crunchy topping.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2026
• The one-button interface is sleek—push quickly to pulse, or push and hold to blend and liquify.
  — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Aug. 2021
• Add 7 tablespoons of the ice-cold water and pulse on and off to moisten.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2024