How to Use coursing in a Sentence

coursing

noun
  • Speaking of erotic, few films have intrepid horniness coursing through their veins like Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake.
    Barry Levitt, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024
  • So the power coursing through that portion of the lines was cut.
    Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Kritsky said the coursing of male cicadas is now peaking around the low to mid-70s.
    Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 16 June 2021
  • Babs and Riley were entered in the outlaw events (for lure coursing and rat hunt).
    Gabrielle Copeland Schoeffield, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 July 2019
  • There’s zero doubt someone has to feel rodeo coursing through their bloodstream to sign up.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The United States scored early, but France did not wilt, the rhythm of the game beating ever faster, its pulse racing and its blood coursing.
    New York Times, 28 June 2019
  • The shades were concealing the very real panic coursing through Gosling.
    Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
  • In Baja California Sur, a man was killed when his car was swept away in the coursing water.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Releasing the brake sends the engine's full power coursing through the all-wheel-drive system, which shuffles torque to all four wheels.
    David Beard, Car and Driver, 23 Apr. 2020
  • That sent runoff coursing into streams and rivers and overwhelming levees in some areas, Heitkamp said.
    Scott Dance, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
  • Beyond the price tag, plans for high-speed rail coursing under, over and through the region’s hills and canyons raised questions of practicality.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The latest storms have sent floodwater coursing through canals and ditches and flowing across farmland toward the old lake bottom.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The conductor Bertrand de Billy led a coursing, richly detailed and colorful account of the score.
    Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The jet stream coursing between these clashing air masses has swept a series of storm systems through Texas, Oklahoma and up into the Midwest.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2024
  • In the central city of Deir al-Balah, the storm brought cold winds and flooded a shelter area behind a hospital, sending torrents of water coursing between the tents.
    Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The deal, which all three tribes have now approved, marks a historic milestone for Indigenous nations that have fought for decades for their fair share of the water coursing through their ancestral lands.
    Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
  • The communities scattered through the Appalachian Mountains are familiar with flooding, with water spilling out of the creeks coursing through the area.
    Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
  • Fluid lights undulated on the field surface, mimicking the coursing of blood.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 23 July 2021
  • Thursday, a very significant slice of that age group already has one vaccine or another coursing through their veins.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Hardware sends electrons coursing throughout the world and into our fingertips.
    WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • White supremacy shows up now in racist fliers tossed into front yards, in small rallies that quickly form and dissipate and in torrents of vile chatter coursing through online forums.
    Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 29 May 2023
  • Lin, who has a degree in bioinformatics, uses a circle motif that likens the four central characters to cells viewed on a microscope slide, and compares the coursing of blood through veins to people’s transit through city streets.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Look, Wall Street often doesn’t mind propping up money-losing startups, so long as there’s a good amount of cash coursing through the operation and some kind of well-articulated path to profitability.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 2 Apr. 2024
  • But there was Taylor on Saturday night, trotting back out of the locker room and onto the Indianapolis sideline, pacing back and forth like a gladiator ready to be unleashed, refusing to give in to the pain coursing through his ankle.
    The Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2024
  • These flavours are perhaps heightened by the adrenaline rush coursing through our systems, having just seen a black bear scramble down a tree, landing near us with a thunderous thump, and, thankfully, racing away in the opposite direction.
    Julian Manning, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But, the lengthy and contentious process to arrive at this version underscores the deep division and political tension coursing through education policy in Virginia and around the country.
    Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Cold water coursing through mountain canyons with forested banks are all necessary components for creating complex structural salmon habitats.
    Adam M. Sowards, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • Oshima’s film teases out the homoeroticism coursing beneath the environment (and coursing through many a war movie, for that matter), in the process commenting on two different cultures that express such feelings through denial and brutality.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
  • His albums assembled the bones of rock and roll into an idiosyncratic style coursing with disbelief at just about every aspect of the American zeitgeist: hippies, cars, college, drugs, California, and, eventually, yuppies.
    Daniel Felsenthal, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2023

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