pulsebeat
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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
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
In a long, upholstered office in City Hall sat the man who had his finger on this pulsebeat.
From Time Magazine Archive
They saw an almost imperceptible shake of his head, a finger on lip, a reassuring gesture—saw, too, the quick pulsebeat at his throat.
From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
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