pulsebeat
AmericanEtymology
Origin of pulsebeat
Example Sentences
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It was a continental tour – from gothic to postmodern, from the dark ages to Brigitte Bardot – with the pulsebeat of a speeding vehicle.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2016
The danger: instead of capturing the hypnotic quality of Marquand's even-tempered prose, the writer may find he has only reproduced Marquand's low emotional pulsebeat.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a long, upholstered office in City Hall sat the man who had his finger on this pulsebeat.
From Time Magazine Archive
He thus becomes a receptive but essentially passive observer of a garish, deadly world, living, as he puts it, "in the very pulsebeat of the tabloids."
From Time Magazine Archive
After five minutes I can hear the rapid pulsebeat and in undulating movements like a caterpillar the 'green dancer' creeps onto the screen.
From The Brain by Alexander Blade
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