The lights pulsated with the music.
People danced to the pulsating sounds of hip-hop.
Virtually every scene of the movie pulsates with suspense.
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The festival’s Meet Street marketplace turned Port Royal into a buzzing culinary hotspot, where over 60 vendors served up a fusion of street food classics and cocktails with artisans selling their fare against the backdrop of pulsating rhythms at Jamaica’s historic Port Royal.—Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 The film is set in Lagos’ pulsating heart, where a dying nightclub owner entrusts her legacy to her shy daughter.—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025 The topsy-turvy nature of that pulsating 3-3 draw actually offers a fairer reflection of Newcastle’s recent match-ups.—Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025 The Redmen — their nickname years later changed to the Red Storm — played tough, pulsating games at a packed Madison Square Garden against Syracuse teams coached by Jim Boeheim, Villanova teams coached by Rollie Massimino and Georgetown teams coached by John Thompson and led by Patrick Ewing.—Mike Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pulsate
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Etymology
in part borrowed from Latin pulsātus, past participle of pulsāre "to strike with repeated blows, beat, (in passive) beat wildly (of the heart)," frequentative or repetitive derivative of pellere "to beat against, push, strike"; in part from pulse entry 1 + -ate entry 4 — more at pulse entry 1
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