How to Use palpitation in a Sentence

palpitation

noun
  • These changes put stress on the body and can even cause heart palpitations.
    Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • That’s the kind of stuff that gives you heart palpitations and dizziness in the most fun way possible.
    Jon Tayler, SI.com, 18 June 2019
  • The symptoms are listed as numbness of the neck, arms, and back as well as headaches, dizziness, and palpitations.
    Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Surgery stopped one type of palpitation, but the others have never gone away.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, The New Yorker, 30 July 2022
  • Like, old-school, give a child minor heart palpitations tonight vibes.
    Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 25 Oct. 2017
  • One friend describes her heart palpitations as a soft fluttering that starts in her chest, moves to her neck and sometimes makes her cough.
    Emily Sohn, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • In other instances, palpitations may be felt when the heart is racing.
    Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Blue, the woman from Flint, has been out of the hospital for nearly a month but still gets short of breath and suffers heart palpitations and anxiety.
    Author: Lenny Bernstein, Ariana Eunjung, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2020
  • This can lead to feelings of palpitations or a racing heartbeat.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Bonus old-lady observations: (1) The heart palpitations and like-mindedness on shows and ideas create one of the best feelings in the whole world.
    Carolyn Hax, oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2019
  • And if the thought of all your personal emails being hacked and posted for the public to read gives you heart palpitations, shift to Signal and leave email for e-commerce receipts and spam.
    Jennifer Golbeck, Slate Magazine, 9 Feb. 2017
  • That tasted pretty good, but the concentration of matcha in that cookie was so high that all of my colleagues had heart palpitations that week.
    New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Does that 20 percent discount on Pringles give you heart palpitations?
    Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 10 Oct. 2018
  • In a surprising plot twist, there’s finally a Fixer Upper up for grabs with a price that won’t give you heart palpitations.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 25 July 2017
  • In one email exchange in 2015, Boylan appeared miffed that Louis did not believe that a bout of heart palpitations and dizziness was related to her brain cyst.
    David Armstrong, ProPublica, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Many of those people suffer chest pain, palpitations, shortness of breath and fatigue.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The palpitations took his breath away, causing a mix of lightheadedness and nausea.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Many patients report fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, and muscle, joint or chest pain.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • A few months after my first child’s birth — months filled with panic, a chest full of pressure, and heart palpitations — a doctor finally explained that no, there was nothing wrong with my heart.
    Sarah Bregel, The Cut, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Having somebody else’s hands on your unlocked device can give you heart palpitations.
    David Nield, Popular Science, 3 Feb. 2020
  • For instance, postexertional malaise has a score of 7; brain fog, 3; and heart palpitations, 2.
    Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
  • Many people living with AFib suffer chest pain, palpitations, shortness of breath and fatigue.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The first step in treating palpitations is to understand what’s causing them, Serwer said.
    Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The device itself, as a physical unit, suggests and enforces a certain humility: all those knobs and straps and hooks, meant to reduce a person to the effluvia of conscience—the sweat, the heat, the palpitations of the heart.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2018
  • In addition to shortness of breath and fatigue, symptoms of AFib include heart palpitations, weakness, dizziness and chest pain.
    Trihealth, Cincinnati.com, 4 May 2018
  • Health authorities have warned that fire smoke could cause symptoms ranging from sore and watery eyes to coughing, dizziness, chest pains and heart palpitations.
    Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • While on his way to jail, Weinstein was taken to a hospital after feeling chest pains and having heart palpitations.
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The new criteria codifies 12 symptoms of long Covid like fatigue, brain fog, heart palpitations and chronic cough.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 26 May 2023
  • These young whipper-snappers with their pure romances are giving me palpitations.
    Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, 9 July 2018
  • If someone else is depending on you, then making a deadline, and doing it so early that nobody has a heart attack, or even a palpitation, is a skill worth studying.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021

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