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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • That said, The Loneliest Time is also full of propulsive throwdowns brimming with bite and verve — and a bit of extra sass.
    Maura Johnston, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Stories are lovely, and this one is propulsive and well written.
    Cory Oldweiler, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
  • Sandoval won’t have any high-profile guests when he and his propulsive quintet perform here — and that’s a good thing.
    George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 June 2018
  • Yes, there are loads of propulsive rhythms and deeply dug samples and atmospheric sonics, and this album will rock a party.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
  • For The Crow to fly again, the film needed to offer something fresh for today’s audience—something propulsive, audacious, and haunting.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2024

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