Example Sentences

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Oregón was by this point in no condition to manage the request on his own; his head was pulsing with pain and his kidneys were in total failure.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 18, 2016

He obediently shook Litvinenko’s hand, the same hand that by now was pulsing with radiation.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2016

Kiev, the capital, was pulsing with emotion that commentators said they had not seen since the Orange Revolution of 2004.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2013

The city was pulsing with possibilities for those with money or those desperate to get some.

From Washington Post

In the poor light the space above her head was pulsing to the rhythm of his own heart.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan