In talking, the air driven out from your lungs beats against two flat muscles, stretched, like bands, across the top of the windpipe, and causes them to vibrate up and down.
He feels for it, and ascertains that it beats no longer.
But when a man or horse starts, his heart beats wildly against his ribs, and here it may be truly said we have an organ which has never been under the control of the will, partaking in the general reflex movements of the body.
When a person is much ashamed or very shy, and blushes intensely, his heart beats rapidly and his breathing is disturbed.
The heart beats quickly, wildly, and violently; but whether it pumps the blood more efficiently through the body may be doubted, for the surface seems bloodless and the strength of the muscles soon fails.
Since the length of a simple pendulum divided by the square of its time of swing is equal to the length of a pendulum that beats seconds, the intensity of gravity also has been expressed in terms of the length of the seconds pendulum.
Not a year passes during which hundreds of thousands of tons of rocks are not washed away from cliff and mountain by the ceaseless assaults of the stormy sea that beats with such force on the western coast of Ireland.
For ridiculous red tapeism it beats any institution of its kind on earth.
For when the gale gets up, and when the wind Flings at the window, when it beats the roof, And lulls and stops and rouses up again, And cuts the crest clean off the plunging wave.
It beatsthe world, Jack, that horse's love for you.
Say," I said, gasping for breath, "this beats turning a grindstone.
But these omissions occurred, at the most, perhaps twice each summer and winter; for the heart of the Middle Basin, that beautiful bluegrass country in which they live, beats in the breast of Summer.
But the conscience of a thoroughbred beats hickory, and gentleness, Madam, is away ahead of blows in everything but war--and we are not fighting now.
He quickly reappears and flies to a near- by rock with a fish, where he beats it to pieces and devours it.
They fail to see the depth of thought or honest sincerity of soul that shines forth from many a rough exterior, beneath which beats a heart of purest gold.
So determined is her aspect that Geoffrey shows the white feather, and, crying "mea culpa," beats a hasty retreat.
It was the solemn moment when the first shot it awaited, when the heart beats a little, while the nervous finger keeps feeling at the gun-lock every second.
He examined it at every point and said, "This beats any thing I ever saw or heard tell of; with this to guide us, we could not get lost if we tried to.
In a middle-aged man the pulse beats about seventy times in a minute; in a child seven years old about eighty-five times; and at the age of fourteen about eighty times.
Hence it follows that our pulse beats about twice as fast as that of an insect in the larva state: in the imago state it is probably, as a general rule, at least in winged, active insects, higher than ours.
Perhaps there may be some curiosity to know whether an insect's pulse beats faster or slower than ours.
Mr. Newport having done so to a bee, counted as many as 142 beats a minute.
John Hunter counted thirty-four beatsin a minute in a silk-worm.
In the books his page beats every man's, except yours.
I take the blows as so many tokens of love; he is at first extremely kind and tender, but then in the excess of his love he beats me.
I revel in the idea of being whipped by him and imagine different scenes in which he beats me.
Decades have passed since that season, My hair is reduced to a rim, But my heart beats as warm as ever, For that friend of my youth, named Tim.
Beneath lugubrious hemlock shade Her heart beats with expectancy, And Kitchewonk's own dusky maid Trusts Rippowam's fidelity.
Some heart whose affection can never be blighted, That beats all in concert with that of my own, That revels in pleasures with which I'm delighted, And grieves at the sorrows which cause me to moan.
But for me, I shall never pause to ask Which dog may be in the right, For my heart will beat, while it beats at all, For the under dog in the fight.
All hands were so absorbed by the intense excitement of the moment that the sound of approaching hoof-beats was unnoted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
