palpitate
verb (used without object)
to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, disease, etc.; flutter.
palpitatingly
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a word derived from
palpitate.
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Arling evidently did not, for she asked, palpitatingly: "When are you going back?"
From A Canadian Bankclerk by J. P. Buschlen
He was palpitatingly nervous, but he tried to carry it off with a high hand.
From When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart
One of the flying art notions of the hour was to revive the old subjects which contained the eternal essentials of life and present them in "palpitatingly modern" form.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
To either side the main street lay long narrow dark alleys, in which flared single lights, across which flitted mysterious long-robed figures, from which floated stray snatches of music either palpitatingly barbaric or ridiculously modern.
From African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White
"I reckon now he won't be staying away from here any more just to save me!" ran Alice's thoughts, palpitatingly triumphant.
From Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
