Example Sentences

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My body coursed with anxiety for the entire pregnancy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Overflowing rivers coursed through villages, sweeping away homes, roads and bridges and triggering landslides.

From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025

It's been three years now, but the 35-year-old school teacher has no trouble recalling the "pure shock" that coursed through when she and partner Kris Ventura, 33, opened the page.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025

It took a split second for the instincts of Principal Laura Gutierrez to kick in when an earthquake coursed through Aldama Elementary School in Highland Park as she stood outside supervising recess.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024

The words must have meant something to me—to Yakov—because suddenly hot tears coursed down my cheeks.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros