Example Sentences

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As in the rest of America, questions are pulsing through the community over who bears blame, who should investigate and what comes next.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

The exhibition signaled the emergence of a distinctive style defined by soothing pen strokes and vigorous shading that together create a rippling effect, as if the drawings themselves are pulsing with life.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2021

All those contradictory kinetic clichés are pulsing away in Elevator Repair Service’s mesmerizing “The Sound and the Fury,” which opened on Thursday night at the Public Theater.

From New York Times • May 21, 2015

Photograph: Anthony McCall Tall columns of light are pulsing and throbbing, brightening and dimming in accordance with messages dictated during seances with ouija boards and translated into a poem by James Merrill.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2013

My insides are pulsing like someone took my intestines and wrung them out like a mop.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles