How to Use propulsive in a Sentence

propulsive

adjective

• In this propulsive new work, the past lives only through the present.
  — Lauren Leblanc, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• Fury Road is one of the most propulsive movies ever made.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2022
• In the song, Puth just can’t shake a love that keeps him hanging over a propulsive beat.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 9 Mar. 2022
• The Weeknd’s propulsive single may well also take the Grammy for record of the year.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2020
• The rhythms are sharp and skeletal, but also propulsive and jumpy.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2024
• These tracking shots give the film a propulsive sense of motion.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
• Max performed the propulsive dance-pop track while moving in and out of a large cage as a crew of dancers flew around her.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2021
• This propulsive thriller will keep you up long after lights out.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2022
• The Buckeyes thrived behind the propulsive thrust of their running game.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
• Este Haim and Amanda Yamate’s score gives scenes warmth and a propulsive drive.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
• The series is propulsive and vivid and over the top, with quick shifts between melodrama and farce.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
• The brash and propulsive pop punk the band engineered and perfected in the mid-nineties is omnipresent now.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• But the conviction of the fierce dancers is never in doubt and the energy on the stage is propulsive throughout.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• All of this is present from the get-go in the title track, whose propulsive backbeat carries along a bevy of mixed emotions.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 18 Aug. 2020
• This Way highlight is as propulsive and epic as the original.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2021
• Hirsch is eighty-seven but has the propulsive energy of an eight-year-old.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• Both boys seemed less propulsive, as if bouncing on a seesaw alone.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• Maybe some of those stories will become more propulsive as the season nears its end.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2022
• The propulsive music helps; the cast is first-rate and thoroughly charming.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2023
• Like the band's most ubiquitous songs, this film looks propulsive, different, and a whole lot of fun.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 15 May 2018
• On this propulsive song, a master class in build/release, Kiedis boasts some of the snakiest writing and wildest singing yet.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2022
• The score is dark, propulsive, and, at times, wrenchingly lyrical.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• Sharp and propulsive, Run and Hide offers up corrections of its own.
  — Rafia Zakaria, The New Republic, 5 May 2022
• Which is so much to do with eliding the boring part of the story and getting into the propulsive part of the narrative.
  — Sari Botton, Longreads, 2 Mar. 2018
• Much of the propulsive energy of the first season came from the cousins’ efforts to upstage each other.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
• And the propulsive finale was laced with pure adrenaline.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• And the story feels propulsive even when people aren’t pulling out hatchets, daggers, and chains.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2023
• Here, the four 65-foot strap-ons separate from the rocket via propulsive gas jets, but while three of the boosters release from the core stage, the fourth clings to the rocket.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 3 Sep. 2020
• The brevity of the episodes, which finish their main business in around 24 minutes (a hair shorter than an episode of the ’60s series), keeps things tight and propulsive.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
• At the time, Ellis said it was intended to be fully reusable, with both the first and second stages making propulsive landings back on Earth.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024