Example Sentences
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Mine, by contrast, palpitated so furiously that I braced myself for cardiac arrest.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
Betjeman's quatrains palpitated with cliches and such treacly rhymes as people/steeple, dutiful/beautiful and blue/true.
From Time Magazine Archive
No country has kept The Club busier or given it more nightmares than Britain, whose economy has palpitated in maddeningly regular intervals through a dozen sterling crises in 18 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear, and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me:
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
How many times I have palpitated upon certain passages in The Education of Henry Adams and in Mr. Wells's Outline of History, which, I assured myself, would legitimately stand as essays if shrewdly excerpted.
From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan
