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Example sentences for "pulse"

Lexicographically close words:
pulsatile; pulsating; pulsation; pulsations; pulsatory; pulsed; pulseless; pulses; pulsing; pulsus
  1. She had seated herself again, but it was impossible to feign limpness with every pulse at the gallop.

  2. Durant could feel the racing pulse leap and quiver under his hand.

  3. The yemshick felt for the pulse of the beast until fully satisfied that no pulse existed.

  4. His pulse is quick, his blood warm, his head aches, his whole frame becomes sore and stiff, and his mind is far from being serene and amiable.

  5. A moment the silence throbs, The dark has a pulse of fire; And then the wonder of time is gone, A wraith and a desire.

  6. Peal and flash and thrill and scent and savour Pulse through rhythm to rapture, and control,-- Who shall say how far along or finely?

  7. A silly, fat, dumpy little stupid; feeling my pulse and making me put out my tongue.

  8. She does not like me because her brother is so attentive; and she seemed quite annoyed yesterday when the doctor spent so long feeling my pulse and talking his physic jargon to me.

  9. Every pulse was throbbing, and her breath came in tangled gasps.

  10. It was cooler, though the pulse still beat hard and high.

  11. Courageous as she had appeared, every pulse shrank and throbbed.

  12. He impelled her into the line with a gentle firmness she could not resist, though every line of her face, every pulse in her body, protested against it.

  13. At the sight of the writing her pulse quickened, and Grimond marked, with jealous displeasure (for that impracticable Scot never trusted Jean), the flush of love upon her cheek and its joy in her eyes.

  14. Whose spirits would not rise high, whose wits would not move quick to the warm pulse of his heart?

  15. In proportion as it possesses, or is void of, the diviner something that quickens the pulse of the heart, and elevates the wing of the imagination, it presents a mockery to the philosopher, or an inspiration to the bard.

  16. A world whose sound our silence is; too wild Its elfin music beats, too shrill, too rare, To stir the slow pulse of our thicker air.

  17. The family physician had great skill, And being present, now began to express His readiness to feel his pulse and tell The cause, but Juan said, 'He was quite well.

  18. Pulse and second bread are a banquet for him.

  19. But where are the fever and the strong pulse of passion which, in less ethereal mortals, would be proper to such a theme?

  20. To you, who tried to save me, my life’s last pulse will be a throb of gratitude.

  21. His pulse was scarcely perceptible, and I felt that his life would not last through the night.

  22. His complexion was very bad, his pulse intermitted, and he breathed and swallowed with great difficulty.

  23. The atmosphere of pleasure which he had never breathed before, now warmed the current of his blood, and his pulse beat high and madly.

  24. No wonder is it, then, if his spirits were high, and his pulse throbbing.

  25. There now, let me see," taking his pulse as I speak.

  26. He was conscious of a dull, throbbing, soothing pulse beating slow measures in his temples, and a curious roaring as of distant cataracts in his ears; and after that, nothing.

  27. Charlotte read it, half-absently at first, and a second time with interest awakened and a quickening of the pulse when she realized that she had actually been a witness of the final act in the near-tragedy.

  28. It looks pale, and the pulse is very slow.

  29. The prince loved her not; never had the slightest pulse of his heart belonged to her!

  30. The king's pulse is perfectly quiet," said Ellart, "you can communicate your news to him.

  31. They could hear the far-off rumble of the vast city which fringed their blessed island like a mighty sea, and through the pulse of their clasped hands it seemed as if they felt the pulse of the world.

  32. What bulletin have the English people ever read from day to day with such an intermittent pulse as that with which they peruse quotations from the "Moniteur"?

  33. A worldling might swear, to look at you, that such flesh and color must come in some way from good meat and good wine; but we remember how the three children throve on the pulse and rejected the meat from the king's table.

  34. She felt that she would suffocate if she were to be tucked up and made to lie quiet, with the doctor fingering her pulse and talking of sleeping potions while her soul was throbbing in such a frenzy of horror.

  35. It was an answer to her soul's cry for a word; and whether true or false, welcome or unwelcome, she could not but listen to that answer with quickening pulse as it ran hurriedly under her eyes.

  36. She is not the woman to make my pulse go fevered and me go mad.

  37. Yes, the last of life will be good, but only if it is like youth, beating with its pulse and instinct with its spirit.

  38. So when Hopkins felt his forehead and his pulse on these occasions, he would find the one moist and the other feeble.

  39. The pulse of her reckless young breast against his was like the pulse of the sea against the rock.

  40. She sank back on her knees, her hands folded upon the bed, gazing at that loftily indifferent face, listening to the steady pulse of the watch.

  41. A pulse stroke--then a shattering, re-echoing roar.

  42. His pulse is slow, madam, but not bad," he said.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pulse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accent; algae; alternate; bean; beat; beating; bicker; bout; bracken; cadence; circle; circuit; climber; course; creeper; cycle; dance; diastole; drum; drumming; fern; flap; flick; flicker; flip; flit; flitter; flop; flutter; grapevine; gutter; heartbeat; herb; intermit; ivy; kelp; legume; liana; lichen; mold; moss; mould; moulder; mouldy; mushroom; oscillate; palpitate; palpitation; pant; parasite; pea; pound; puffball; pulsate; pulsation; pulse; reappear; recur; repeat; return; revolution; revolve; rhythm; rotate; rotation; round; rust; seaweed; series; smut; spell; splutter; sputter; staccato; stroke; succulent; systole; tempo; thesis; throb; throbbing; tick; toadstool; turn; undulate; vetch; vibrate; vine; wave; waver; wheel; wort; wrack